From quanta Sun Nov 01 11:25:53 2009 From: David Brooke Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:25:53 +0000 To: quanta Subject: Re: [Quanta] Goodbye Message-Id: <200911011125.53972.davemgv8 () googlemail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=quanta&m=125707496314058 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============1856082692==" --===============1856082692== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-00=_BBX7KrB3p+AVAfg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --Boundary-00=_BBX7KrB3p+AVAfg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sunday 01 November 2009 01:14:57 Emmett Culley wrote: > I really don't get the problem here. Unless I am missing something. I've > installed Fedora 9, 10 and 11 numerous times on many different machines > (mostly x84_64). Fedora 9 was sort of a mess for the first couple of > months, until KDE 4 stabilized around 4.1. > > However, in ALL cases Quanta has been, and still is, working as great as it > has for years. I couldn't work without it. That and Eclipse. All it > required me to do was select the kdewebdev package when installing. All of > the required KDE 3 libs and any other dependencies were installed > automatically, every time. > > I happen to love KDE 4 (especially since 4.3 delivered) and I cannot get > what could be missing that would make it unusable. And it just keeps > getting better. > > I am looking forward to trying a new Quanta that will take full advantage > to KDE 4, but in the mean time it is serving us very well. > > Regards, > Emmett I have got Quanta working on top of KDE4 under slackware and can't see anything missing. Just install kdewebdev and the legacy libraries, I can't remember precisely how many bits you need but its not many - there are bound to be details on the web at www.linuxquestions.org in the slackware list. Dave --Boundary-00=_BBX7KrB3p+AVAfg Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sunday 01 November 2009 01:14:57 Emmett Culley wrote:
> I really don't get the problem here. Unless I am missing something. I've
> installed Fedora 9, 10 and 11 numerous times on many different machines
> (mostly x84_64). Fedora 9 was sort of a mess for the first couple of
> months, until KDE 4 stabilized around 4.1.
>
> However, in ALL cases Quanta has been, and still is, working as great as it
> has for years. I couldn't work without it. That and Eclipse. All it
> required me to do was select the kdewebdev package when installing. All of
> the required KDE 3 libs and any other dependencies were installed
> automatically, every time.
>
> I happen to love KDE 4 (especially since 4.3 delivered) and I cannot get
> what could be missing that would make it unusable. And it just keeps
> getting better.
>
> I am looking forward to trying a new Quanta that will take full advantage
> to KDE 4, but in the mean time it is serving us very well.
>
> Regards,
> Emmett


I have got Quanta working on top of KDE4 under slackware and can't see anything missing. Just install kdewebdev and the legacy libraries, I can't remember precisely how many bits you need but its not many - there are bound to be details on the web at www.linuxquestions.org in the slackware list.


Dave

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