[kde-linux] kde4 file locations?

[Paul]

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 5:22:08 Beso wrote:
> 2008/8/20 Paul <pkaplan1 at comcast.net>
>
> > I'm trying to install a pasmoid for 4.1 and the instructions state: "You
> > have
> > to copy it to (kde_src_directory)/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets and
> > just compile like all KDE4."
> >
> > I installed kde4.1 from kubuntu debs, so what directory would this be?
>
> well, the line you wrote implied you'd have installed the source packages
> and not the compiled ones and then compiled kde.
> usually if it's only a single plasmoid then all that is useless and you
> should just download the plasmoid, untar, configure and make.
>
> this page that refers to the weather plasmoid explains the passages to
> build a single plasmoid.
>
> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Weather+Plasmoid?content=84251
>
> there are the commands that need to be run to install it and the order to
> do so. just replace the name of the tar archive with the one of your
> archive.

I was able to compile and install the weather plasmoid (and others) with no 
(or at least few) problems.

I'm trying now to install "multirows task manager" 
(http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/multirows+task+manager+by+8siem?content=83177)
and I'm not the only one with problems although a few people have reported 
success, including someone who installed on SUSE.  I get errors similar to 
those found in the 3rd from last comment on the page in the link.  My thought 
was that the problem is that I am attempting to make install from the wrong 
directory, hence my question.