Korona Brings KDE 4.3 To OpenSolaris

[panda84]

I think this is something that KDE does lack, it seems like I heard of an effort a while ago to support the same API Gnome was using inside QT, but I don't know what the status of that is. Hopefully the Gnome tools will work with KDE soon.

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-accessibility&m=124905660802716&w=2

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2009-August/003286.html

[panda84]

English is not my native language, but I'm doing my best

Of course I was not blaming you for your english. I'm non-native speaker too, so I know how difficult it is to learn a new language.

That was just to say: if you can admit you ignore some things about english you can admit you ignore some of the internals of fonts rendering too...

[hajma]

Hmm, it looks butt-ugly. I suppose the widget styles (Oxygen, etc) won't work yet?

Hi, here's the Korona author speaking :-)
What you see is KDE default theme, Korona's KDE has zero adjustments from defaults, its just OpenSolaris plus KDE packages and autologin set to KDE, nothing else. Deciding on the ugliness of the default theme is pretty subjective, but I don't particularly like it too.
The widget styles work just fine, it takes two-three clicks to change it.

[hajma]

What a MESS with font rendering, they look like shit:

When KDE developers will learn this?

Hi, this is Korona's author here.
By default, font aliasing is set to system's settings, but somehow it fails to share the gnome settings and is turned off. We haven't investigated it much, since it only takes two clicks to turn it on.
You can check the known issues at http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE...Solaris/Status

We've reached the point when we're able to build vast majority of KDE only recently, so only now we're turning to investigate the crashes and other issues.

[RealNC]

Hi, here's the Korona author speaking :-)
What you see is KDE default theme, Korona's KDE has zero adjustments from defaults, its just OpenSolaris plus KDE packages and autologin set to KDE, nothing else. Deciding on the ugliness of the default theme is pretty subjective, but I don't particularly like it too.
The widget styles work just fine, it takes two-three clicks to change it.

Actually, the default style is Oxygen and the default Plasma theme is Air. So I guess you're doing something wrong.

[krazy]

Actually, the default style is Oxygen and the default Plasma theme is Air. So I guess you're doing something wrong.

WTF are you talking about? That's what's shown in the screenshots.

[RealNC]

WTF are you talking about? That's what's shown in the screenshots.

Edit:
No wait, that's Firefox, lol. I didn't notice. I got so used to my Firefox looking nice that I totally forgot about it looking like ass without a KDE-friendly Gtk style.

[kraftman]

Uh, and search for Kubuntu in this and several other forums. You'll get how good is their implementation. Try Arch or Slackware. If you're able to, of course.

I always repeat - Kubuntu's KDE is buggy compared to Arch.

@Vermaden

I stick to BSDs mostly and learning OpenSolaris from time to time, Linux is dissapointing me, I am tired of its mess geenrally.

Who's interested? I'm tired of BSD and OpenSolaris mess and they're disappointing me, but who cares? Wanna another flame?! Grow up...

[vermaden]

@kraftman

To paraphrase your post:

Who's interested? I'm tired of Linux mess and its disappointing me, but who cares? Wanna another flame?! Grow up...

[kraftman]

@kraftman

To paraphrase your post:

Who's interested? I'm tired of Linux mess and its disappointing me, but who cares? Wanna another flame?! Grow up...

You've got the point