To KDE or Not To KDE?

[Dark Ninja]

...that is the question.

Hamlet aside, is it worth upgrading to KDE 2.2? I'm just wondering, because it looks like a pain, having to download every single one of those RPM's and making sure I have the correct libraries, etc. But...if anybody knows if it is worth it.

BTW - For anybody who was helping me with the kernel upgrade before, I'm going to work on it one more time, and if it still giving me problems, I'm going to just trash the idea. But, thank you for your help anyway. I appreciate it very much. Plus, I've learned a lot more about a kernel then I ever needed to. ;-)

- Dark Ninja

[Malakin]

I'm in the same situation as you, looking at KDE 2.2 and thinking about how nice it would be :)

I've decided to hold off until mandrake 8.1 comes out. Some of the features look really nice though. If I didn't use this machine for business related stuff I'd probably go for it.

[Chatterjee]

It's worth it I think... the new konqueror and features like font smoothening, apps layering in the panel is pretty cool and unclutters a lot of things

-S

[spiffgq]

I'm downloading it now. I'll let you know my opinion when I get it installed.

[Dark Ninja]

I'm downloading it now. I'll let you know my opinion when I get it installed.

That's another thing I was wondering - is there just one file I can download to install this, or must I download all the packages that I need. (Also...speaking of...which packages do I DEFINITELY need. I haven't been able to find that.)

Thank you again, folks.

Dark Ninja

[cypunk06]

I personally am the type of guy that will wait on new SW till it's out, people use it and all the bugs are reported and fixed., I hate downloading and installing, only to find out 3 months down the road, you have to DL patches, and new drivers, and crap.....
give it some time to circulate 1st.

[Dark Ninja]

Yeah, I guess waiting sounds like a good idea. It'll give me more time to learn about using Linux rather than just upgrading all the time (which I've been doing for the past two weeks).


Dark Ninja

[Stupid Newbie]

I want to use KMail but my mail account is IMAP. So I can't do that without upgrading.

I downloaded the rpm's but can't get it installed. The www.kde.org (http://www.kde.org) install guide say install kdesupport first but I can't find it in the ftp. (I'm using SuSE 7.2) I then try the kdelib, which the guide say I should also install first. But KPackage is complaining that kdelib 2.2 and some of my existing applications need some libraries. I found out that those are actually from kdelib 2.1 but they're not in kde2.2! What's going on?

[bdg1983]

There's no kdesupport for my distro either though I did manage to get 2.2 installed.

I just rebuild the source rpm's and then installed in the following order.

gt2
libxmlkde
pcre
kdelibs

Then the rest does not matter what order you install them in.

Looks great so far and even more highly configurable than 2.1.