Fink announces support for KDE on MacOS X

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From the fink-lists:

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<<The Fink team is happy to announce preliminary support for KDE on MacOS
X.

To find out more about the K Desktop Environment, see "What is KDE?" at
the KDE web site:

http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/index.html

Work has been progressing steadily on getting KDE 3.0.x ported to run in
XFree86 on MacOS X. Packages and pre-built binaries are now available
for users interested in running KDE on MacOS X via Fink, at:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/

For detailed instructions on installing or building KDE on Fink, and
screenshots of KDE running on OSX, see the full announcement at:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/kde.php>>

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Cheers...
 
I'm really itching to give this a try. My first Unix OS was MacOS X, so so far I've only had some experience with Gnome. Reading the warning though, I'm really worried about getting water in my gas tank. That, and I'm sure compiling everything will take many days on my computer.
 
I have KDE 2 on this box on PPC Linux .

I am waiting for the whole OS X thing to come together , its nice to see the install for X on X .

I want to put the whole deal together with Open BSD PPC and use it as a workstation .

I use the original KDE on my old power mac and on my intel box .

KDE RULES as desktop , Aqua is just like Gnome .
 
I think I better post here some of the INFO about the KDE packages as shown at the fink web site.

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<< These packages will only work with the xfree86-base from the Fink distribution, version 4.2.0-5 or higher.

Fink provides a "virtual" package for XFree86 called "system-xfree86", for users that have downloaded XonX or some other binary XFree86 distribution and don't want to build XFree86 from source. Unfortunately, the non-Fink releases of XFree86 (4.2.0, or even older) do not have Xinerama enabled. The newest version of the XFree86 package in Fink unstable (which these KDE binaries are based on) does. KDE was linked against the Xinerama library, and will not function if it doesn't exist.

If you want to continue using system-xfree86, you will need to follow the instructions for building from source. Otherwise, you will need to upgrade to xfree86-base and xfree86-rootless through apt or dselect.
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Cheers...
 
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