[PLUG] where can I get a sane KDE?

Rogan Creswick creswick at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 08:05:24 UTC 2007


On 2/11/07, Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a better solution than building from source and maintaining a
> custom set of patches?  Maybe "Joe's KDE sane-ification release" or
> something?  I've tried bug reports, but typically get answers like
> "just use multiple desktops" or "what's wrong with Ctrl++ ?" and it
> seems they generally don't take you seriously unless you compiled trunk
> this morning.  I really do like kde, but the nits seem to be
> accumulating and/or regressing to the point that I think I have to do
> something or else freeze everything at Sarge (!) until I find a better
> answer.

Take a look at FVWM -- it is by far the most customizable WM I've run
into (and I've been actively looking for 7+ years).  It plays well
with kde, so you can run a kicker (the kde panel) and various other
things as you may want, and it's been able to do a super set of
everything I've ever wanted to do with Enlightenment, gnome, kde,
windowmaker, metacity, sawfish, blackbox, openbox, fvwm, and others,
with one exception -- compiz / beryl are the only WMs that I've found
that will let me desaturate inactive windows so they appear in black &
white.

I have *not* tried to set up a systray with FVWM, but I've seen pages
that talk about it, and #fvwm on freenode has many very helpful
people.

Don't be scared of by the first screeshots of fvwm you see either..
since it is incredibly configurable, you'll probably *hate* 80% of the
configs you see.  It can look like anything you want, but it may take
some searching / tweaking to get it there.

Feel free to ping me off-list with questions -- I can try to help,
although I'm no expert, and my usage patterns don't exactly jive with
yours (eg: I really like multiple desktops, and I'm currently using
beryl / kde)

--Rogan


>
> Thanks,
> Eric
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