Built KDE4 last night, it took about 4.5 hours total and built without failures. To be safe, I created a new user for testing purposes and logged out of my own account. I use entrance as my dm and I find an entry for kde-4 in the list of sessions available. So far so good.
First impression: kde4 starts up fast. I had gotten used to waiting up to 30 seconds for the splash screen to get through everything it needs to. Konsole works, both 3.5 and 4.0 I don;t get the slow scrolling issue another user reported. Konqueror works, now I have to recreate my custom settings that I have grown used to. Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component. kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway? kopete, amarok all work. The oxygen theme is a vast improvement over Plastik. I'm still undecided about the default menu, it looks a little in the style of XP which I can't stand. I know it''s not the same and maybe just a knee-jerk so I'm holding off before coming to an opinion. All in all, a very nice point-0 point-0 release. After using it for a few hours, I can understand what all the hype was about :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
