How to install KDE on Fedora Core 13 and onwards.
I haven’t used KDE for a very long time, obviously since before Fedora Core 13. Back then, the yum group for KDE was named kde-desktop, so a simple sudo yum groupinstall kde-dekstop would set you on your way.
Since FC13, the group name has changed to the not-so-obvious KDE Software Compilation.
sudo yum groupinstall “KDE Software Compilation” (with the quotes) and you’re off!
I’m installing KDE in a fresh install of FC16 as I’m writing this, because like Leonid, one of the things which annoy me about GNOME 3 is the inability to see a Skype icon with notifications of incoming chats without having to move your mouse to bottom right corner all the time. We are using Skype as an example here, there are of course other icons which one might miss, such as the Dropbox icon for example to know if any synchronisation is in progress.
While I am waiting for TDE (Trinity build of KDE 3.5) to become more stable, I use GNOME 3 in graphics fallback mode, which is more like GNOME 2
There you can have standard buttons, tray icons and the rest.
If you haven’t checked it – give it a try. To enable, just go to menu -> system tools -> system settings -> system info -> graphics, and enable Fall back mode.
Really, I was pissed of with GNOME 3 UI, but this one makes life much better )
Hey Alex, thanks for adding to the post… I hope that these comments eventually fall on the right ears and things get heard to the point where at the very least, we are given the choice/option to use GNOME 3 the way we need it to work for us.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been enabling fallback mode on all new installs of FC15 and now FC16 before I do anything else with the OS. This is fine.
However, having just spent just under $2k on a high-end laptop… only to be constantly reminded that you need to use an inferior version of the OS to achieve basic functionality, has a very large part of me being pissed off with GNOME 3. My hardware is extremely capable of running GNOME 3… all I need is a silly Skype notification icon. Is that too much to ask?
I will survive the rest of the other silly/stupid changes that are coming to Fedora, such as the SysVinit to Systemd migration changes, but I can’t personally deal with an OS telling me that I can’t use the best of it because my choice is to have something that it offered me before which it has now taken away from me without a good enough reason.
I don’t know if I’m explaining this well enough… am I right or wrong here?
KDE works very well for me now. The only time I switched to Gnome3 is when I watch movies on my TV. For some reason having several multi-monitor setups and redirecting sound to HDMI and back is annoyingly difficult in KDE4 and pretty much the only thing that works as expected in Gnome3. I’m willing to give them time though. For the rest of my tasks, KDE4 is awesome and works exactly the way I want it to – icons, panels, keyboard shortcuts, main menu, etc.
Guys, does somebody manage to setup two fingers scrolling in Fedora 16? It doesn’t work for me in KDE or Gnome3.
@Michael, not working for me in either.
@Chris Ergatides
Very bad. Fedora team always breaks some working old feature in the new release.
Я не могу не согласиться с вами. Каждый раз, когда появился новый релиз Fedora, землетрясение убивает котенка.
@Michael
I think I only about the whole two finger scrolling from you. And I think you are the only one I know who ever used this feature.
@Chris Ergatides