KDE or KDE-META?

Hi!
I'm at the point of installing the GUI, KDE4 for instance, and I'm curious about what veteran Arch-KDE4 users can tell me about this. I read about the two KDE and KDE-META and I wonder which will be the best to have an up-to-date and/or stable KDE4.
Also, in my last attempt to install Arch (this is my second time doing a Arch install, I haven't any system up and working yet but I'm starting feeling a seasoned Arch user, lol) I remember installing plain KDE installed a LOT of applications and games I would not want because KDE package installs whole KDE suite.
Alongside kdebase and kdeutils (or kde-meta-kdebase and kde-meta-kdeutils) which other packages should I install to have a full working base but complete KDE4 system, like say Kubuntu? (sorry but's the only KDE I liked after trying Fedora's and openSUSE's KDE implementation)
I'm talking about a complete KDE system with printer support and so on, I'm not talking about applications which I can add individually.

hi Pierre!
I did read the wiki and that's why I was in doubt on which package should I install.
I see you are a KDeveloper? I'm very grateful of the KDE Team work. I like other DE too and all have their pros and cons, but KDE is the only environment that put it all together in a way I find useful and beautiful and that free me to just work and enjoy my PC experience instead spending lot of time customizing and tweaking my system.
Thanks both for your advice here and your KDE work, best.
Last edited by martin77 (2010-03-25 03:44:26)

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    Last edited by gbj13 (2010-10-15 13:59:36)

  • [SOLVED] kde 4.8.4?

    Hi All,
    Just installed Arch and really like it. I was reading in the forums that people are running KDE 4.8.4, and it appears to be in the repos, however, when I do an about in any KDE app, it shows 4.8.3.
    How can I get 4.8.4?
    Thanks!
    Joe
    Last edited by LinuxRocks (2012-06-09 20:08:02)

    karol wrote:What does pacman say? 4.8.4 went into [extra] yesterday.
    Here is what happened when I did pacman -Syu this morning:
    pacman -Suy
    :: Synchronizing package databases...
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    extra is up to date
    community is up to date
    multilib is up to date
    :: Starting full system upgrade...
    there is nothing to do
    Here is a small example of what is in pacman's list:
    pacman -Ss |grep kde
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    extra/kdeaccessibility-jovie 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeaccessibility) [installed]
    extra/kdeaccessibility-kaccessible 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeaccessibility) [installed]
    extra/kdeaccessibility-kmag 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeaccessibility) [installed]
    extra/kdeaccessibility-kmousetool 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeaccessibility) [installed]
    extra/kdeaccessibility-kmouth 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeaccessibility) [installed]
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    extra/kdeadmin-kuser 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeadmin) [installed]
    extra/kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeadmin) [installed]
    extra/kdeartwork-aurorae 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeartwork) [installed]
    extra/kdeartwork-colorschemes 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeartwork) [installed]
    extra/kdeartwork-desktopthemes 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeartwork) [installed]
    extra/kdeartwork-emoticons 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeartwork) [installed]
    extra/kdeartwork-iconthemes 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeartwork) [installed]
    extra/kdeartwork-kscreensaver 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeartwork) [installed]
    extra/kdeartwork-sounds 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeartwork) [installed]
    extra/kdeartwork-styles 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeartwork) [installed]
    extra/kdeartwork-wallpapers 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeartwork) [installed]
    extra/kdeartwork-weatherwallpapers 4.8.3-1 (kde kdeartwork) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-dolphin 4.8.3-1 (kde kdebase) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-katepart 4.8.3-1 [installed]
    extra/kdebase-kdepasswd 4.8.3-1 (kde kdebase) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-kdialog 4.8.3-1 (kde kdebase) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-keditbookmarks 4.8.3-1 (kde kdebase) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-kfind 4.8.3-1 (kde kdebase) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-konq-plugins 4.8.3-1 (kde kdebase) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-konqueror 4.8.3-1 (kde kdebase) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-konsole 4.8.3-1 (kde kdebase) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-kwrite 4.8.3-1 (kde kdebase) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-lib 4.8.3-1 [installed]
    extra/kdebase-plasma 4.8.3-1 (kde kdebase) [installed]
    extra/kdebase-runtime 4.8.3-1 [installed]
    extra/kdebase-workspace 4.8.3-2 (kde) [installed]
    extra/kdebindings-kimono 4.8.3-1 (kdebindings)
    extra/kdebindings-korundum 4.8.3-1 (kdebindings)
    extra/kdebindings-kross-java 4.8.3-1 (kdebindings)
    extra/kdebindings-kross-python 4.8.3-1 (kdebindings)
    extra/kdebindings-perlkde 4.8.3-2 (kdebindings)
    extra/kdebindings-perlqt 4.8.3-2 (kdebindings)
    extra/kdebindings-python 4.8.3-1 (kdebindings)
    extra/kdebindings-python2 4.8.3-1 (kdebindings) [installed]
    extra/kdebindings-qtruby 4.8.3-1 (kdebindings)
    extra/kdebindings-qyoto 4.8.3-1 (kdebindings)
    extra/kdebindings-smokegen 4.8.3-1
    extra/kdebindings-smokekde 4.8.3-1 (kdebindings)
    extra/kdebindings-smokeqt 4.8.3-1 (kdebindings)
    So I should wait more or find another repo?
    Here is what I have currently:
    # Mirror selected during installation
    Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
    Also, I have the new keyring thing turned off atm due to lack of time to generate entropy (I will probably do that today). Do you think that might have an impact on package availability?
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  • [SOLVED] KDE fonts unreadably small

    I've just installed Arch following the instructions in the wiki and everything has gone smoothly so far. But I now have a problem with KDE (kde-meta) - all the text on screen is unreadable, resembling squares. I thought it might be something to do with the locale setting so I set it back to the default en_US, but that had no effect.
    Not sure what extra info I can give, I haven't done anything exotic during the install.
    Fonts installed are ms, bitstream vera and deja vu.
    Last edited by qpeg (2010-06-25 12:22:05)

    (Mostly) fixed. I tried using the nv driver instead of nvidia and everything looked fine. Now that I was able to actually read the screen I found a force dpi option in KDE's font settings. This fixes the DPI issue with the nvidia driver.
    This doesn't cover KDM though, which is still unreadable. As I said before "ServerArgsLocal=-96 dpi" within KDM's config does nothing. Any ideas?

  • KDE 4.3 beta2 Dolphin and Konqueror Won't Launch

    I installed kde 4.3 beta2 from kde-unstable to try it out and dolphin and konqueror don't launch. If I try to launch them from konsole I get this
    dolphin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkonq.so.5: undefined symbol: _ZTI23KFileItemListProperties
    konqueror: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkonq.so.5: undefined symbol: _ZTI23KFileItemListProperties
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    flamelab wrote:
    No "testing" needs to be activated.
    Reinstall KDE-meta correctly.
    pacman -R qt (since this one is from testing)
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    and ... this is it.
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    Targets (31): apr-1.3.5-1 readline-6.0.00-1 unixodbc-2.2.14-2 apr-util-1.3.7-1 bash-4.0.024-1
    sqlite3-3.6.15-2 python-2.6.2-3 boost-1.39.0-1 device-mapper-1.02.32-2 glib2-2.20.4-1
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    grep-2.5.4-2 heimdal-1.2.1-5 jack-audio-connection-kit-0.116.2-2 libxml2-2.7.3-2
    licenses-2.5-1 mysql-clients-5.1.35-2 mysql-5.1.35-2 postgresql-libs-8.3.7-2
    postgresql-8.3.7-3 ruby-1.9.1_p129-2 run-parts-3.1.3-1 smbclient-3.3.6-2
    texlive-bin-2008-5 vi-1.81.6-2 vim-7.2.218-1 xz-utils-4.999.8beta-4
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  • [SOLVED] Fonts antyaliasing in KDE 4.3

    I cannot see any option to turn antyaliasing on in system-settings (this is new install with KDE 4.3 installed kde-meta-kdebase, kde-meta-kdeadmin).
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    Last edited by hadrurus (2009-08-25 19:06:33)

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