Redhat 9 and KDE
Tim Wunder
tim
Mon May 17 11:48:29 PDT 2004
On 6/17/2003 8:36 AM, someone claiming to be Myles Green wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 05:24, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 04:36:48 -0600
>>Myles Green <myles-green at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 04:13, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>>
>>>>I remember seeing that redhat did some wild integration of KDE and Gnome
>>>>in their latest release. I never did get a feel for whether you could
>>>>still run KDE with its own look. Is this possible? If so, is it so
>>>>without hassle?
>>>
>>>Yes it is, just select a different theme for the various components
>>>(desktop theme, icon theme, etc). Also, if you're interested, the newest
>>>KDE available from ftp.kde.org installs cleanly and gets rid of the Blue
>>>Curve look as a default.
>>>
>>>BTW Ximian Desktop 2 (XD2) installs quite nicely (I downloaded the RPMs
>>>and installed them myself) and completes the purging of Blue Curve ;-)
>>
>>We are trying to see how far we can go with a distro without changing
>>things. Updates beyond the original CDs are avoided when possible.
>
>
> Then the answer is still yes, just look through the various settings
> under themes, icons etc.
Kinda off-thread, but there's also the kde-redhat project,
http://kde-redhat.sf.net, which, when combined with apt for rpm,
provides an easy way to keep kde up to date.
Regards,
Tim
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