[CS-FSLUG] Slackware Roadblock

[N. Thompson]

I've just run into what I would consider the most annoying thing in 
Slackware yet, after spending nearly two straight days working on 
getting the thing to work I've run into something thats completely out 
of my hands. In order to get sound in KDE (due to a bad kdemultimedia 
package) I had to upgrade KDE to 3.3.1 because someone pulled the 3.3.0 
packages which were considered much stabler and now I've wound up with a 
desktop that has huge icons spacing and icons that scatter every time I 
log in again. This really has my fuming right now, it seems that every 
distribution that has KDE and Gnome puts all their effort into Gnome and 
doesn't even bother to make sure their KDE packages will work.

If I find the time I'm going to try to vent my frustration on a game of 
C&C, otherwise I may very well wipe my Slackware install as I've nearly 
done a few times after failed attempts to get KDE working the way it 
should. If someone else has come across this and know how to fix KDE in 
Slackware I'd be glad to hear it, I'd very reluctantly consider 
downgrading KDE (hey KDE 3.3 kicks but) if I had to (& knew how).

Alternatively I've considered giving Fedora Core 3 a try when its 
released or getting SUSE 9.2 if it turns out good, right now I can't 
tell because that sick computer store is still holding half my ram 
hostage for the fun of it so I don't have enough to get the SUSE 9.2 
live CD to boot.

Perhaps Mr Miller who seems to be the resident SUSE expert and Mr. 
Brault who seems to be the resident Fedora Core expert could both 
provide me with some interesting information on the upcoming releases of 
the two distributions? Anyone else can join in and mention any other 
distribution, I've been curious about the upcoming Libranet release as 
well as the possibility of a more up to date Slackware release with KDE 
actually done right.

I'm almost ready to do like Groundhog and simply install a minimalistic 
XFCE desktop system with a good web browser and whatever else as long as 
the distribution includes Qt Designer, I never learned how to use the 
KDE libs and never liked KDevelop anyway. Come to thing of it if I could 
find one I liked that would be an excellent idea.

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