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From: Peter Chant on 10 May 2010 16:44
Michael Black wrote:

> So we missed out on the Slackware Fun and Games this time.
>
> Today, Thursday May 6th has a changelog entry announcing
> a move to KDE 4.4.3 and that it will be called Slackware 13.1
> with "A stable release should be just around the corner..."

It looks nice here, just upgrading to it.

Pete

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From: greymausg on 12 May 2010 03:28
On 2010-05-10, Peter Chant <REMpeteOVE(a)petezilla.co.uk> wrote:
> Michael Black wrote:
>
>> So we missed out on the Slackware Fun and Games this time.
>>
>> Today, Thursday May 6th has a changelog entry announcing
>> a move to KDE 4.4.3 and that it will be called Slackware 13.1
>> with "A stable release should be just around the corner..."
>
> It looks nice here, just upgrading to it.
>
> Pete
>

I HATE KDE 4..
(probably will love it in 6 months time)


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From: Mike Jones on 12 May 2010 05:24
Responding to greymausg:

> On 2010-05-10, Peter Chant <REMpeteOVE(a)petezilla.co.uk> wrote:
>> Michael Black wrote:
>>
>>> So we missed out on the Slackware Fun and Games this time.
>>>
>>> Today, Thursday May 6th has a changelog entry announcing a move to KDE
>>> 4.4.3 and that it will be called Slackware 13.1 with "A stable release
>>> should be just around the corner..."
>>
>> It looks nice here, just upgrading to it.
>>
>> Pete
>>
>>
> I HATE KDE 4..
> (probably will love it in 6 months time)


Is KDE the main focus of 13.1 then?

I just stick IceWM on top of a basic X. As I keep my custom configs
backed up, things tend to look and work the same at each upgrade.

I'm particularly interested in what progress has been made taming the
runaway "automatic" mess Xorg made of X. Alternatives to HAL's "moving
target" behaviour with devs would be attractive too.

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From: Eef Hartman on 12 May 2010 06:55
Mike Jones <luck(a)dasteem.invalid> wrote:
>> I HATE KDE 4..
>> (probably will love it in 6 months time)
>
> Is KDE the main focus of 13.1 then?

No, but one of the MAJOR differences between Slackware 12.x and
13.x is that you _only_ get KDE 4, no KDE 3 anymore.
The other desktops/window managers are still supported too, though.

PS: and there is an unsupported one-time port of KDE 3.5.10 for
13.0 available. If that one still works in 13.1 I don't know.
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From: Stephen Bloom on 12 May 2010 08:02
Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Mike Jones <luck(a)dasteem.invalid> wrote:
> >> I HATE KDE 4..
> >> (probably will love it in 6 months time)
> >
> > Is KDE the main focus of 13.1 then?

> No, but one of the MAJOR differences between Slackware 12.x and
> 13.x is that you _only_ get KDE 4, no KDE 3 anymore.
> The other desktops/window managers are still supported too, though.

> PS: and there is an unsupported one-time port of KDE 3.5.10 for
> 13.0 available. If that one still works in 13.1 I don't know.

I've been running KDE 3.5.10 with Slack -current with no
apparent ill-effects, so my guess is that it would work
with Slack 13.1 (have to make sure that the qt lib doesn't
get updated, though).

I am running KDE 4.4.3 on one machine; it does seem to
be getting better, but the improvements (to me) seem to
be asymptoting to a form that I still don't like a whole
lot.

Steve
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