KDE 4.5.1 lacking kxkb

Hello,
I think that KDE 4.5.1 is missing this program. At least there is no such binary- I updated everything yesterday. Is it on purpose or by mistake? Could I use different keyboard switching tool from KDE? I am not interested in setxkbmap etc.
Thank you !
Pjoter.

Maybe your mirror was out of sync?
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20684 ?
Last edited by karol (2010-09-01 00:19:11)

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I took a little look at the kde website and didnt really see anything in there that indicated that KBabel is part of an actual kdeaddons package there, so I am assuming that the kde maintainer for arch decided that it should be that way.
I dont know any better, so thats why I am asking. I dont have a need for a fax viewer, a tea cooker, or a moon phase thingo. but I did like the AMOR to amuse the kids a little. So how can I keep one bit and get rid of the others, without having to dig thru stuff and possibly break the dependancy chain?
Anyway, not to take away from the effort of those maintaining the packages, because it works quite well and I'm really enjoying my new systems. Just wanted to ask if there was a specific reason it was done this way.
Kudos.

skparkes wrote:
Well, as it stands, no you can't just pick individual apps in KDE. If you really want to pick what you want, you will have to turn to building from source. You can probably alter kdeaddons in ABS, or just start with Konstruct.
Personally, I understand why they just lump all of kde into 5-10 packages. It would be a complete headache otherwise. I've got the hard drive space and I can handle a few unused applications laying around. Keep up the good work to the new KDE maintainer eh?
Later,
Isamoor
That's probably the exact reason. There's probably around 100+ programs (I could be under or over by a lot, it just seems like there are a ton) that come with a fully installed KDE, and if you had to install them all individually, it'd be hell. It's just easier to put them all together into a few packages, because most people'll probably want to use KDE's stuff within the KDE environment, anyway.

KDE 4.1 - customisation and installing widgets not working properly

Hey, so I decided to try KDE 4.1. So far looks good altough I have some graphic glitches due to the nvidia drivers (but those should be fixed soon, I hope).
Still I can't help but to feel a tad disapointed at the lack of customisation of the panels.
I mean, sure there are widgets but can't he put some applications on the panels (eg. Konsole) so we don't have to use the KMenu everytime? I might be doing something wrong here so if anyone knows how please let me know.
I was also disapointed at finding that the taskbar is only one row, it makes things messy for me, but then I found out there's a widget that allows more than one row. Thing is, when I tried to install throu the 'install new widgets'->'download from internet' it appeared as installed but then doesn't show up in the widgets menu. Is this a bug?
Thanks in advance.
edit: Is there also a way to add a side panel instead of bottom/top only?
Last edited by Grimn (2008-07-29 16:40:15)

Grimn wrote:I mean, sure there are widgets but can't he put some applications on the panels (eg. Konsole) so we don't have to use the KMenu everytime? I might be doing something wrong here so if anyone knows how please let me know.
You can right-click on an application in the application-menu and then choose to add it to the panel.
Thing is, when I tried to install throu the 'install new widgets'->'download from internet' it appeared as installed but then doesn't show up in the widgets menu. Is this a bug?
The same here.

KDE 4.5.1 lacking kxkb

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