Hello, There are a few things which I've been working on, or thinking about, in the hopes of making CRUX's KDE implementation better. 1. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=crux&m=114198584022117&w=2 2. get some sort of inotify support. Currently, I'm testing the inotify via gamin solution. At some point, I'm going to see if ./configure --enable-inotify, for kdelibs, provides the same functionality with less overhead/complexity; I will talk to some KDE developers about the merits of each approach. If anyone wants to quickly add inotify support to their current KDE installation, and already has libfam or gamin installed, then he/she has merely to do the following: a) make sure you're running an up-to-date kernel (at least 2.6.14.6, IMHO) b) either copy your /usr/src/linux/include/linux/inotify.h to /usr/include/linux/inotify.h, or else use the 2.6.15.4 version found in ports/sten/glibc/inotify.h, if you subscribe to my repo. Alternatively you can install ports/sten/inotify-utils. c) prt-get remove libfam d) prt-get install -fr gamin OR prt-get remove -fr gamin e) killall /usr/sbin/gam_server f) otherwise, you'll need to rebuild everything kdelibs down, to enable inotify, and to let apps run without libfam... 2.5 Gamin has issues with KDE: (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=114209917111095&w=2). From a discussion on kde-packager, I've learned that all applications that use KDirWatch can use inotify through kdelibs. Kat is the sole exception. The kdelibs --enable-inotify approach is said to be a cleaner, more robust solution than Gamin + KDE. 3. Prelink. Many of the "big" distributions have it, and it apparently speeds up KDE quite a bit (I didn't notice anything mind boggling, but it's a nice speed up..maybe 20-40%). I finally got it to work with libelf, instead of elfutils. If anyone is interested, please test it, and email me with your prelink experiences. Until this latest attempt, mine had never been altogether successful, but prelink has worked great for me for the last few weeks. 4. What would you like to see in, or out of, CRUX's KDE? Cheers, Nick