Re: KDE status

[Keith Matthews <keith_m@sweeney.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:30:27 +0200 Marc Espie <Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>> wrote:

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> Note that kde3 is insanely expensive to build with the current tools, on
> i386 at least, because of a pending issue with our linker: you need 600MB
> to build kdelibs3, I'm not kidding ! 


Still less than Mozilla - and by a significant margin.

> I have some tweaks to ld that ought to improve the situation drastically, 
> but they need some careful testing, so they won't be in OpenBSD 3.1.

> kde3 should bring a few massive improvements over kde2:
> - much better font support,
> - correct asian language support (thanks to qt3 being much better at coping
> with environments with incomplete locale support)
> - improved speed (very noticeable in konqueror).

I trust it does not have that stupid dependency on sgi-fam and hence
portmapper (no, it couldn't have - this is OBSD not Deadrat I hope ).

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