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Lars Behrens wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> has someone already upgraded KDE to 3.4 on Slack 10.1? Any experience?
>
> Cheerz Lars
bogus, bogus , bogus.. more than 3.4rc1

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:17:12 +0100, Thor-Inge wrote:

> 3.4 are much faster than 3.3. Downloaded it at
> http://www.linuxpackages.net/ The fonts are much better I think. Any
> comment on that please!
>
>
> Thor-Inge
>
> Lars Behrens wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> has someone already upgraded KDE to 3.4 on Slack 10.1? Any experience?
>>
>> Cheerz Lars

All of KDE seems bogus to me, utterly top-heavy and configurable only at
the fringes. Using KDE on an older computer is out of the question anyway.
Basically, in my opinion it is something for kids who get conned by
colours and flashy appearance.
JB

Loki Harfagr wrote:

> I give here the repair, as it may happen to others :
>
> go into :
> vi ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
>
> and change the buggy line to :
> folders=~/Mail
>
> or
> folders=/home/mylogin/Mail
>

I simply commented the line out and it worked.
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danube wrote:

> All of KDE seems bogus to me, utterly top-heavy and configurable only at
> the fringes. Using KDE on an older computer is out of the question anyway.
> Basically, in my opinion it is something for kids who get conned by
> colours and flashy appearance.
> JB

Congratulations! You are the winner of a new DOS-only computer. Enjoy your
slimmed down computing experience!! An welcome to the 1980's!!

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:02:49 -0500, Jim wrote:

> danube wrote:
>
>> All of KDE seems bogus to me, utterly top-heavy and configurable only at
>> the fringes. Using KDE on an older computer is out of the question
>> anyway. Basically, in my opinion it is something for kids who get conned
>> by colours and flashy appearance.
>> JB
>
> Congratulations! You are the winner of a new DOS-only computer. Enjoy your
> slimmed down computing experience!! An welcome to the 1980's!!

Please don't think in black and white. A graphical interface is quite good
(I use Afterstep or xfce), but it should be simple and, above all, stable.
KDE is neither. Shut down a KDE process from the command line and you will
always see something happening long after the event. Another, I loaded
Limewire under KDE and it just knocked out the soundcard, sometimes it
worked, sometimes it didn't. I could go on, sometimes I put my toes into
the KDE environment but quickly retract. There are some good applications,
but I run them under something more stable than the KDE desktop.

JB

Lars Behrens wrote:

> has someone already upgraded KDE to 3.4 on Slack 10.1? Any experience?

Well, I'm using it now with the packages from slackware-current, I can't see
big performance improvements but I's smooth, and progress bars are now
light blue (okay, it's not an amazing feature, but I love light blue ^^; ).

I found some little problems, in kopete when I try to configure style it
crashes, I think I'll update it from source.
I had some problems trying to tell kgpg the config directory was ~/.gnupg
(it was looking elsewhere, like /options), kmail mail's diretory has
changed from ~/Mail to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail , I spent a little
trying to understand why it doesn't get my ~/Mail dir...
Kpdf seems to be a little heavier, but haven't tried it so much, new
select-text/image feature is good.
By default on the desktop there's a System icon that leads to system:/ , I
liked the presence of a KDE Rss feed reader (akregator).

I've not tried it so much, but this are my first impressions ^^.


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I'm not an English speaker, I apologize for my English ^^;
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> has someone already upgraded KDE to 3.4 on Slack 10.1? Any experience?

I've just installed `-current' with its KDE-3.4. I like kde-3.4 it has a lot
of impovements over the kde-3.2.3 I was using previously (that was a
slackware-pre10 machine, gradually upgraded). Kde-3.4 also seems faster
than previous versions.

kpdf, kmail and knode are all great - I didn't notice any instabilities.


Now, some of the problems I've noticed:
- I'm noticing some flickering that I don't like in Konsole.
I don't know why it happens.
- krdc will not embed rdesktop-1.4.0 so its useless.
- the -current packages don't suport ZeroConf, which is a shame.
- It would be nice if Slackware would support by default all the
reqyuirements of KDE (http://www.kde.org/info/requirements/3.4.php) like
lm_sensors, gphoto2, libldap, Sasl, OpenSLP, mdns, lame, speex, etc...


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damjan

>> has someone already upgraded KDE to 3.4 on Slack 10.1? Any experience?

> Now, some of the problems I've noticed:

Interesting, but if I enable the Option "RenderAccel" "true" of the
proprietary nvidia (1.0-7167, kernel 2.6.11.6) driver, when I log into
KDE from KDM the X server freezes(*) before ksplash displays any text.

If I start KDE with startx it seems to be ok.

(*) the computer is still working and I can connect to it via ssh, but I
can't kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace.

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damjan

Damjan wrote:

> - It would be nice if Slackware would support by default all the
> reqyuirements of KDE (http://www.kde.org/info/requirements/3.4.php) like
> lm_sensors, gphoto2, libldap, Sasl, OpenSLP, mdns, lame, speex, etc...

What if some are interested in KDE, but not in lame, lm_sensors, speex,
etc. ?

>> - It would be nice if Slackware would support by default all the
>> reqyuirements of KDE (http://www.kde.org/info/requirements/3.4.php) like
>> lm_sensors, gphoto2, libldap, Sasl, OpenSLP, mdns, lame, speex, etc...
>
> What if some are interested in KDE, but not in lame, lm_sensors, speex,
> etc. ?

These are all really light dependencies, certanly compared to KDE.. on the
other hand they enrich the desktop experience.

I'd say it's a good tradeoff.

The most obtrusive perhaps are libldap and libsasl, but even those - IMHO -
are more good than bad



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damjan