[kde-freebsd] Re: KDE4 plasma-netbook shell

[Rusty Nejdl]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:52:39 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In another thread I expressed concerns about KDE4 and useability on
> netbooks; they have been based what I saw with KDE 4.0 and 4.1; now I
> want at least to give it a try again on my 9-CURRENT and installed
> ports/x11/kde4; in some post in the mentioned thread someone said
> something positive about plasma-netbook shell -- is this a special 
> port
> in FreeBSD or how I enable this? I've looked around with Google and 
> saw a
> lot of stuff but not how to start it;
>
> KDE4 itself starts (with the ugly green screen, and the 1st thing I 
> have
> changed back was the mouse pointer style to KDE3... well this is 
> perhaps a
> matter of taste, of course :-) )
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> 	matthias

Looks like part of it is in System Settings | Plasma Workspace | 
Workspace Type - Change from Desktop to Netbook.  However, I did that 
and my desktop went poof so not sure that that is the complete story.  
I've needed to upgrade the NVIDIA drivers to keep KDE stable quite a 
bit.

Rusty Nejdl