On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:16:20 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:52:36 -0700, AGT wrote:
>> KDE - talk about a work in "progress".. : <
> Nowhere nearly as much so as GNOME. Slackware Linux gave up on chasing
> all the varying GNOME requirements and dropped it from their distribution.
> It's easy to see why Sun doesn't chase the GNOME versions.

At least they are trying harder. The KDE bunch seem quite flaky : <

>> A pity as I rather like its look and feel compared to GNOME
> I've grown accustomed to GNOME. I had a bit of a problem getting into
> GNOME earlier today; the X config has changed since I replaced a 1280x1024
> display with one that does 1680x1050. I could log into "Failsafe" and
> started twm to fiddle with the X config. But I forgot to see if I could
> get KDE to start up.
> On the next login GNOME came back up without problems so I'll wait a bit
> to see if KDE will actually start.

good luck : >

> mplayer is something of an oddball. Its configure script looks like one
> created with GNU autoconf but it's not. Only gmake can be used and forget
> about trying to use Studio12.

I tried for a while but theres too many GNUisms in there. gmake is
nearly always a given with this Penguinware stuff : < I usually
just env MAKE=gmake