Meeting Notes for 8 December, 1998

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

As recorded by Tony Gettig

The meeting started at approximately 6:30 PM after everyone migrated from 
the reception area to the meeting room. With fifteen in attendance, Bob Brown 
called the meeting to order.

First item of business was old business. A show of hands indicated that only 
a few people have read the new motions on the KLUG web site. Bob *strongly* 
encouraged everyone to surf there and have a look at these motions, and said
there will be a vote on them on January 19, 1999. Discussion of the motions
on the mailing list was also encouraged. The motions can be viewed at:

       http://klug.armintl.com/organize/meeting-def.html
                        and 
       http://klug.armintl.com/organize/member-def.html

There was one new business item, that of the meeting location. Boogies 
Cyber Cafe (http://www.boogies.com) has agreed to let KLUG meet in the
loft, which is where we held our Halloween Bash.  This is a temporary 
solution to our meeting-space problem.  A more permanent meeting location
is still greatly sought after. If anyone has any ideas, or can find a place
to meet, please send email to either Brenda or Bob (at their email addresses
if you know them, programdirector@klug.armintl.com, or chair@klug.armintl.com,
respectively) as soon as you think something can be arranged.

It's difficult to have a meeting with no place to meet!

With business items concluded, Bob introduced Bruce Smith and the 
presentation topic of the evening: KDE.

KDE stands for "K Desktop". It is more than a window manager, but rather it 
is a desktop. The KDE web site it http://www.kde.org , from which the entire 
package can be downloaded. As a side note, it is also included on the BSWare 
distribution CD.

In short, KDE has most the niceties one would expect from other GUI 
operating systems, including a help system, file management tools, PPP client,
mail and news clients, system administration tools, games, and multimedia sup- 
port. After running through his prepared notes, Bruce gave a live demonstration
of KDE.

Some of the comments from those in attendance include: it requires a lot of 
colors (16 bit, or 64K colors, minimum) display to run, runs slow over xterm,
and if you want to make it your default desktop, you can use the "usekde" 
command. There was also a great discussion if the Knote, a desktop "sticky
note" of sorts, though they stick to the screen, and do not actually become
embedded in a file.

The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:15 PM.

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Great Thanks to Tony Getting for getting these meeting notes out very quickly!