Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> I tried to find out the current state of this, for you.

The echos I got from upstream are that it should be way better in 4.2 than
4.1. They implemented a new library called Kephal in kdebase-workspace
which is designed to improve multi-monitor support.

> explaned me that if you start KDE and after you plug-in the monitor and
> you configure it from the System Setting you are using XRenderR

That would be XRandR (X Resize and Rotate - its original functionality was
to allow "resizing" (i.e. switching the resolution of) or rotating the
screen without restarting X11, support for adding/removing screens has been
added later).

        Kevin Kofler