[KLUG Members] More on RedHat 8

[Adam Williams]

>>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.

You hear this quite alot on the LTSP mailling list, with people using KDE 
remotely all on one box.  It crashes, locks up, etc... and in general has 
problems in multi-user environs.

I sort of suspected that KDE 3 would have solved these problems.  Hmmm... 
I'm a GNOME bigot, but it still makes me sad.

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