Comments on: KDE 4 Running on the Eee PC

By: matto

matto — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:36:39 +0000

For your information, especially to users in the German-speaking countries: The current edition of the “C’t” computer magazine comes with a Knoppix demonstration DVD. It can be started with an option to use KDE 4, I tried it and it worked. I did not test many of the features however (I’m a linux newbie), but for a quick glance (resp a proof-of-concept) it was interesting.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:45:46 +0000

Any chance of getting KDE 4 running on the Eee’s full desktop (Xandros)?

By: ash

ash — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:11:38 +0000

thanks very much Andrew. So i will enjoy eeeXubuntu in a while. I’m lovin it so far but I still plan to install other distro. Part of my Asus Eee exploration…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:52:10 +0000

@ash – I wouldn’t apt-get it just yet – stick with vanilla eeeXubuntu.

KDE 4.1 is supposed to be the ‘real’ KDE4 that we’ve been waiting for. Hopefully they’ve learnt their lesson with the backlash and when KDE5 comes out (in the distant future I know) it’ll be usable from the start.

By: ash

ash — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:25:49 +0000

i want to know which is better. eeeXubuntu or this one?

By: KDE 4 rodando no Eee PC

KDE 4 rodando no Eee PC — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:05:27 +0000

[...] Saiba mais (eeeuser.com). [...]

By: g

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:47:40 +0000

It’s too bad they wasted 4.0 as a release number, the rest of us who don’t build of of CVS/SVN/GIT won’t have any way of telling when it’s actually supposed to be usable for non-devs… Maybe KDE5.0?

By: rtreffer

rtreffer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:18:29 +0000

What’s so stunning about this – or even worth a note? I’m running kde/svn on my eee (kde/svn will become kde4.1). Don’t see why anyone would want to put KDE4 on there EEE. I’ve posted a screenshot about it, too…. (post your eee’s desktop)

The svn trunk is currently moving to qt 4.4 which is troublesome to compile (until the kde overlay for gentoo gets up to date). This should merge webkit and bring compatibility with apple’s dashboard (yep, this is part of the kde4.1 agenda, meaning we’ll have *thousands* of plasmoids in a few months – as well as gethotnewstuff2)

1,5 minutes to but is shit. With initng a full bootup takes a few seconds (no readahead list, yet). And prelinking is a big plus, too. So a full desktop load/login should take less than 1min.

~100 wakeups/s while using kde (without compositing).

Oh, and the kde trunk already has a configurable taskbar. (at least regarding size).

@Lang: please look at the design… Phonon, Plasma, Oxygen… They all do a great job – but they are not polished, yet. Look at the changes from kde 3.0 to 3.5. 3.0 looks ugly and bad. 3.5 looks like the end of what’s possible with the 3. design. 4.0 is the basis for a richer desktop. It’s actually a redisign to overcome the design shortcuts of 3.0. And I really like the fact that they dare to redefine there design goals.

By: KDE Lang

KDE Lang — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:25:18 +0000

KDE4 isn’t just unstable, it is also poorly designed, poorly implemented, and inconcistant. One day it will be good but not yet. I really don’t like it. KDE3 is a much better place to be or Gnome.

By: g

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:12:02 +0000

I would have liked to run KDE4 on my eeePC. Unfortunately it’s not even ready to run on my desktop.

KDE4.0x is really alpha quality software at best. You can’t do things you used to be able to do in KDE3.x like change the size of the task bar (notice how much of the screen it takes up on the eeePC), the task bar also randomly crashes… It’s buggy and not even feature complete pretty much where Vista would have been before MS put it out publicly even to developers. Accept KDE4 was release prematurely for the sake of hitting a release date.

Maybe when it hits 4.3 it will be worthwhile to use.