KDE on MX?

[Adrian]

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.

That gives me an idea, why don't we use the skel files from MEPIS and make sure when people install KDE will get the customized MEPIS experience? I doubt the config files are too big to put them on CD...

[kmathern]

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.

I think Joany's still using Mepis 8.5 which used KDE 4.3.x, some of the settings in ~/.kde might not be compatible with the 4.8.4 KDE version in Wheezy.

[Jerry3904]

I like Adrian's idea a lot, though. Could we just use the current stable settings from M12 B2 and describe that somewhere?

[anticapitalista]

We need someone to test it out. The default MEPIS config could also be a deb that gets downloaded with the kde packages via the metapackage installer.

[Jerry3904]

That works, and follows our general model.

[Pete_J]

Hello, not been on the forum to often in the past, but recently looking at the news on here that MX 14 has been realeased for testing ,got me interested that a new Mepis version is around.

Anyway, I like some would like KDE, so on a VirtualBox install I loaded up MX 14 and from the meta package instaled KDE. Worked flawlessly, Have a KDE version up and running. Like has been said , needs tweaking to customise etc, but everything working so far with no problems. Got to say I am well pleased with the flexibility, will do a hard install for sure when the final version is released.

Nice work to everyone involved.

Pete

[joany]

Got to say I am well pleased with the flexibility, will do a hard install for sure when the final version is released.

Me too. I haven't been this excited about MEPIS in a long time. I was disappointed that Warren decided to "move on," so to speak, and will always miss MEPIS. But I'm very encouraged by MX and look forward to installing MX-14/KDE as my production OS as soon as the final is released.

[BitJam]

That gives me an idea, why don't we use the skel files from MEPIS and make sure when people install KDE will get the customized MEPIS experience? I doubt the config files are too big to put them on CD...

The default MEPIS config could also be a deb that gets downloaded with the kde packages via the metapackage installer.

Yes! Yes! Brilliant! There is the potential for tremendous value added here. Devil's in the details.

[Gaer Boy]

Just a poorly-documented trial. I installed KDE_Lite - 59 packages (having previously installed KMyMoney, which brought in 96 packages). Login to the KDE desktop and most things worked OK. I then copied my plasma-desktoprc and plasma-desktop-appletsrc files from my Mepis 12 install (I have them saved separately for quick & dirty configuration if I reinstall).

This gave me something like my M12 desktop, although a number of widgets were ineffective, and it only remained to switch the wallpaper back to Tutbulence. Voila!

MX-14 KDE.jpg

And it all seems to work. I won't be using it like this, but I may try a serious job when I install Final.

[Pete_J]

I had a really ugly synaptic interface, so installed the kde gtk engine, and it works great, synaptic looks nice now.

Agree with what has been said, be great if we had the MEPIS tools, they were very good and what also made the distro so appealing.

I hope maybe a MX-14 KDE version could come to light. But if not this hybrid I am running look very promising.