[KLUG Members] More on RedHat 8

[Peter Buxton]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:57:00PM -0400, Rusty Yonkers wrote:

> I have been looking at RedHat 8 some more.  The interface is
> definately nice to look at.  I am using KDE for most of the testing.  

Sadly, I just booted (pun unintended) KDE 3 off my machine. It is quite
interesting, has improved in many different ways since I've first used
it, and I still find the Qt/KDE classes quite clean and pretty.... but.
I modified KDM to run 2 different X servers on this machine. This was to
convince my other user NOT to log me off when she wanted on (I am often
logged in as root, and am often running things in that window when I
am.)

Testing it out, I logged on as her and myself, :0 and :1. And it BARFED.
Both screens just went to redraw Hell, and I waited quite a few minutes
before I could kill the X server. Had I logged in as myself twice, some
amount of interference might have been acceptable. Hey, all app
designers aren't Einsteins, I understand. But these problems made me
think that the Qt libs under KDE were designed for single display-only
Macs and Windows boxen and will need significant rewriting before they
are useable "for real" under X11. I mean, it would be one thing if they
didn't actively support multiple GUI servers on a box; it's another when
they code them so unaware that a multi-server display destroys them. :-(

Currently, I'm running XFCE. It's alright. But I'm still a little
disappointed by KDE 3.

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