Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

[mdh]

--- On Sat, 11/1/08, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
> Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?
> To: "Yuri" <yuri at rawbw.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 11:34 AM
> > I tried using it but Desktop view window that was
> initially created when I first launched kde4 doesn't
> appear with the second launch.
> > I believe KDE4 isn't ready yet.
> > 
> > Anyone can use it without major annoyances?
> 
> the question should be "Is KDE usable at all on any
> OS?"
> the answer is no, it's crappy imitation of windoze.
> 
> If someone needs windoze like soft, just buy windows vista.
> 
> For someone who need unix, FreeBSD is a good choice.

I rather like KDE4.  I don't find that it's like Windows at all, given that Windows is an operating system and KDE4 is a development framework, application suite, and window manager.  There're hefty differences there, not the least of which being that KDE4 isn't an operating system kernel.  In general, I've found it to be well-maintained (some of the window managers I've used in the past went defunct when the 1-2 developers actively working on them got bored or whatever), nicely designed, attractive appearance-wise, and easy to configure.  Let's face it, spending a whole bunch of hours over the course of a few weeks writing a perfect afterstep config was really cool when I was a young'un and didn't have a life to worry about, but nowadays I just want to get on with what needs doing.  KDE allows me to accomplish just that, efficiently, and without leaving me unable to toggle/modify/configure certain things as GNOME does.  

- mdh