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What version of KDE gets installed?

chrispop99 wrote:@ Joany:

It's the lightweight LXDE that I have tried.

Your enquiry has prompted me to try KDE via the Meta-installer; I'm doing it now, and will report later.

Chris

that's awesome,

i couldn't get it to work about a week ago (dependencies...) went with 64bit antiX 13.2 upped to jessie . kde-standard 4.11.3 which i think i like a little better than the 4.12... with sol...
thanks guys
great tip Stevo!

cavie here, couldn't get it to suspend to ram correctly until yesterday. what's different you might ask? only thing i did different yesterday was to install compiz 'perfect'.

richb wrote:What version of KDE gets installed?

It's probably the 4.8.4 version.

The version in Debian Wheezy.

Current Stable.

Jerry3904 wrote:...and keep track of your customizations, please--not necessarily the exact choices you make, but the categories. We could make a helpful document for others out of it.

Thanks--and well done!

I'll be sure to document everything I do, but I'd like to wait until the MX-14 final comes out. Then I'll install it on the HDD. Right now, MX/KDE is only running in VBox, so I still consider this to be an experimental installation, although I' was so very pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to switch desktops. Nice work, Anti and the MEPIS team!

I anticipate the first thing I'll do is customize the panel, which was very crude OOTB. Then I'll need to install some KDE-centric applications. Warren's MEPIS installed quite a few of these by default, and the kde-standard metapackage also brought over a few, such as Dolphin. Some of the usual cast of characters, like k3b and Kaffeine, are missing, although Dragon, DeadBeef, and Xfburn are there. I was also very surprised to see that LibreOffice was installed by default with KDE. I'm sure there will be quite a few packages I'll want to add, such as some multimedia players and codecs, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc., etc. Fortunately, most everything seems to be available through Synaptic.

Right now, the Kmenu is kind of a mess, but that will be easy enough to fix. I notice there are a some XFCE-centric applications from the original installation that have the same functions as the KDE apps I commonly use, so I'll probably go in and just uninstall those that I have no use for, and that will clean up the Kmenu somewhat.

This is going to be fun, fun, fun!!

EDIT:

BTW, the KDE version that MX-14 installed was V4.8.4-2. Also, our favorite little apt-notifier icon was transferred to the KDE panel automagically!!

A word of caution: In order to edit Kmenu, you have to install the package kmenuedit and launch it from a konsole. I was used to right-clicking on the Kmenu icon in the panel to edit Kmenu, but that doesn't work.

Nice attitude!

I've done a little customization to my MX/KDE test installation. I have a way to go, but it's looking pretty good. Here's a screen shot of what I've got so far:



It's beginning to look quite a bit like my SM 8.5 desktop.

Too girly.

If you already have a MEPIS or other KDE desktop customized the way you want, you can copy the settings from there. I know most are in ~/.kde, some are in .local, and other non-KDE apps are in .config or their own hidden folders. The KDE ones are the most important, of course.