I'm using FreeBSD 13-CURRENT Unix for hardware support (only other option on particular PC is Slackware 14+-CURRENT GNU/Linux, also using that sometimes) and to report issues/bugs if I can (I also use FreeBSD & Slackware stable releases on an older PC: no issues there.)
I thought I'd get a little farther with KDE, but it's almost unusable (50% of anything I do results in slows/halts, or things might finish displaying right 50% the time or be incomplete--not finish--50%) so I'm wondering if I even did setup/install right.
Last month I made a current snapshot CD/DVD. As in the handbook (first time, since I installed only stable in late 1990s) I updated /usr/src and did the make & install of world & kernel, clean old(-libs, and of course reboots in between and after,,) then built Xorg/KDE ports (previously tried packages but removed them.)
Should I try something else or is KDE5 more a work in progress for FreeBSD-current right now?
I'd have to backup/delete my entire Slackware KDE files first, which I've done before, then got a fresh/default/blank KDE session on FreeBSD... I managed to turn off search/indexing eventually (otherwise it'd halt maybe overnight while indexing) then set my positions, backgrounds/panels for three monitors. Editing the panels was another matter... currently it's probably not going to work unless I take all day with it being incomplete/halting 50% of edit actions...
Some programs do seem to run alright, but I don't know if I'll be able to pin them to panels either (what I use instead of desktop icons, though I'd really like a Windows 3, win3 style of program group boxes like CDE, NsCDE)... and I do so much with the panels & system-tray I'll wait for suggestions/instructions/requests to configure or debug (which I'm willing to do if encountering common issues.)
On Slackware they said roll back to earlier QT5 than the most current... maybe similar problem in this case?
I thought I'd get a little farther with KDE, but it's almost unusable (50% of anything I do results in slows/halts, or things might finish displaying right 50% the time or be incomplete--not finish--50%) so I'm wondering if I even did setup/install right.
Last month I made a current snapshot CD/DVD. As in the handbook (first time, since I installed only stable in late 1990s) I updated /usr/src and did the make & install of world & kernel, clean old(-libs, and of course reboots in between and after,,) then built Xorg/KDE ports (previously tried packages but removed them.)
Should I try something else or is KDE5 more a work in progress for FreeBSD-current right now?
I'd have to backup/delete my entire Slackware KDE files first, which I've done before, then got a fresh/default/blank KDE session on FreeBSD... I managed to turn off search/indexing eventually (otherwise it'd halt maybe overnight while indexing) then set my positions, backgrounds/panels for three monitors. Editing the panels was another matter... currently it's probably not going to work unless I take all day with it being incomplete/halting 50% of edit actions...
Some programs do seem to run alright, but I don't know if I'll be able to pin them to panels either (what I use instead of desktop icons, though I'd really like a Windows 3, win3 style of program group boxes like CDE, NsCDE)... and I do so much with the panels & system-tray I'll wait for suggestions/instructions/requests to configure or debug (which I'm willing to do if encountering common issues.)
On Slackware they said roll back to earlier QT5 than the most current... maybe similar problem in this case?