Created by two KDE enthusiasts, KDEmod is a modular and tweaked version of the K Desktop Environment that has been optimized for Arch Linux. It contains additional patches for eyecandy and functionality and a slightly enhanced Qt3 installation, and is available in Archs standard .pkg.tar.gz package format for i686 and x86_64.
Started in june 2006, the KDEmod packaging project was brought to life because of the KISS nature of Arch Linux, which means that Archs KDE is built from the standard unmodified KDE distribution, thus providing the whole KDE desktop without any modifications or additions.
This is generally not a bad thing (we just love KISS), but many users do not need a full-fledged KDE desktop installed with apps they maybe never use. Arch is a small distribution and the developers are on more important missions to improve this fine (tm) distribution, so KDEmod was born to provide a fully modular installation of KDE with nearly all the features and bling some bigger distributions provide with it - and partly even more bleeding-edge features
KDEmod provides the sophistication, stability and feature-richness of KDE but its also a work in progress, so please report any glitches you may encounter. All KDE applications and modules are available as splitted versions in the repositories, and we will continue to provide a refined and optimized KDE desktop for Arch Linux.