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clearloon

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Registered: 2009-01-07

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KDE from Arch v KDEmod

Now that Arch splits KDE packages, what advantages are there to using KDEmod? For me it was always about being modular but now I can do that with Arch itself...

Skripka

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: KDE from Arch v KDEmod

Now that Arch splits KDE packages, what advantages are there to using KDEmod? For me it was always about being modular but now I can do that with Arch itself...

Now, KDEMod provides extra goodies and a few patches here and there that you need to manually find and install for Extra-KDE.

stefan1975

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From: 53 6e 65 65 6b

Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 195

Re: KDE from Arch v KDEmod

Now that Arch splits KDE packages, what advantages are there to using KDEmod? For me it was always about being modular but now I can do that with Arch itself...

Now, KDEMod provides extra goodies and a few patches here and there that you need to manually find and install for Extra-KDE.

yes well as i said ..... i heard about the "few patches here and there" but never did discover which ones and why they would be important to KDE. for the life of me i cannot find much difference between my KDEmod desktop and my kde[extra] laptop apart from the kickoff logo, but i do not use shaman or arxin and such GUI tools so that might be something that explains it.

stefan

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Skripka

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Registered: 2009-02-19

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Re: KDE from Arch v KDEmod

yes well as i said ..... i heard about the "few patches here and there" but never did discover which ones and why they would be important to KDE. for the life of me i cannot find much difference between my KDEmod desktop and my kde[extra] laptop apart from the kickoff logo, but i do not use shaman or arxin and such GUI tools so that might be something that explains it.

stefan

I'm honestly not sure-but I can spot a few.  I never could get KDEMod to do some of the default theming things I was seeing with KDE.  KDEMod4 always had very flat colors, and not gradients like I'd often see in screenshots. I figured it was just my monitor...After I went back to Vanilla KDE, nope it was the patched version of Qt or the patches applied to KDE for KDEMod.  Extra-KDE does it fine.

stefan1975

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From: 53 6e 65 65 6b

Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 195

Re: KDE from Arch v KDEmod

so they patch things to work less then [extra] ..... that makes sense ?!

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broch

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Registered: 2006-11-13

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Re: KDE from Arch v KDEmod

so they patch things to work less then [extra] ..... that makes sense ?!

wonder where you have got this one?
1) kdemod is older (more experience)
2) different ways of splitting
3) whichever you choose is up t you the same as with any linux distro: use what suits you best (at least this shoud mean as little system maintenance problems for you as possible)

I would skip this topic as people are getting offended easily for no reason.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: KDE from Arch v KDEmod

So....  another one of these topics.....

KDEmod add some patches and themes to their KDE packages and I believe split them differently.  The also include extra tools needed for Chakra to be a great live CD experience. 

So it is a case of different goals for different projects.

Closing.

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