The K Desktop Environment for UNIX-like systems has been released. On my Fedora Core 3 laptop, I built this new version of KDE using Konstruct. From the website: …is a build system which helps you to install KDE releases and applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs, checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds and installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as “cd meta/kde;make install”. Mine is installed to my local home directory. I haven’t been home long enough to try it out yet, but I might post my opinions, and/or screenshots if anyone is interested. Try it out for yourself, and let me know how you like it!
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How does KDE handle CDs/DVDs and removable storage (USB sticks, USB/Firewire hard drives, etc)? In Gnome there’s gnome-volume-manager which is based on HAL, DBUS, and UDEV. It detects when discs/devices are plugged in and can auto-mount them and run a program or file-manager to view them. It’s still in progress but works pretty well for me. Is there a similar thing in KDE?
It handles CDs and DVDs the same way, by automounting. I do not have a USB stick to try out however, and my only USB hard drive is hooked to my Linksys NSLU2, which I don’t want to disconnect at the moment. I’m kind of curious about it too, now that you asked.