[PLUG] Upgrade kde or switch to gnome?

[Rob Hudson]

Give Konstruct a try:
http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/

I'm using it right now and installed it to try out the new KDE 3.1.

It's a tool that fetches and builds (compiles) all the KDE packages and
their dependencies (not all of them, though).  It installs into:
~/kde3.1.1 by default, so uninstalling is just a matter of removing that
directory.

-Rob

> On 20030423.0116, Michael Robinson said ...
>
> I am using the kde that comes with Redhat 7.2 and I am wondering what 
> specifically needs to be done to get a newer version of kde hopefully with
> fewer kmail, etc., bugs installed maybe in a different directory?  How many 
> programs will need to be upgraded that are kde specific etc. and is there
> a quick way to find out?
> 
> There has been some suggestion that I go to gnome instead because gnome
> doesn't depend as much on tons of packages and it supposedly reconfigures
> better than kde.  I've also heard that there are problems with using kde 
> commercially where gnome has no issues at all that way.  How do I migrate
> kde mail spools to some other software under gnome?  Suposedly a lot of
> gnome progams don't need gnome to run which is a plus.
> 
> I have a minimum no X 7.2 box that I can probably take the package list off
> to see which ones I don't have to consider in an uninstall.  As far as kmail's
> address book and various kde data is this in a few spots I can easily find?
> The easiest would be to pull the data off, uninstall kde, and compile a new
> version from source probably.  Is it true that a new version of kde can be 
> installed in a seperate tree and if so how can I switch between new and
> old version to see if the new version works before dumping old?
> 
>      --  Michael C. Robinson
> 
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