Hi there,

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

Cheerz Lars

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

Thor-Inge wrote:
No problem with installation
A bit faster
No bug till now

thib

> 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

Lars Behrens wrote:

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

I've been using 3.4 since it was in alpha. The final release is quite stable
and adds lots of nice features. The one I use most is fast user switching.
You could do it before 3.4, but it took lots of tweaking. Now it's just
built in. I only encountered one bug so far, relating to Kdewallet and
storing passwords for Web sites. Everything else seems rock solid.

On 2005-03-26, Jim <jimmycNO@SPAMspeedfactory.net> wrote:

> and adds lots of nice features. The one I use most is fast user switching.
> You could do it before 3.4, but it took lots of tweaking.

What tweaking? I run two users on separate x servers and switch
instantly back and forth with Ctrl-Alt F7 and F8.

nb

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:43:37 +0100, Lars Behrens wrote:
> has someone already upgraded KDE to 3.4 on Slack 10.1? Any experience?

I have a few strange issues. I have kompiled via Konstruct with -O3 and
Pentium 4 optimizations.
I have: Dual Xeon 2.66 with HT, i.e. 4 cpus in /proc/cpuinfo

1. Kpdf crashes if I enable background thread option.
2. Because of a nice themable KDM, decided to use it finally instead of
booting into console and startx. But one strange issue happens is that
my scrollwheel no longer functions properly (if I load via KDM). I have
Logitech MX510 and my mousewheel functions as Back&Forward in Firefox and
"Back" "Forward" buttons on the mouse function as scrollwheel. I'm very
confused and can't find anything related on google.
My xorg.conf contains the following for my mouse:

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

Option "Name" "Logitech MX 510"
EndSection

3. Found out that KDE3.4 supports 800dpi mouse resolution of my Logitech
however it seems that I need to use PAM in order to be able to use it.

Lars Behrens wrote:

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

Fine (using packages at linuxpackages.net) - UNTIL I tried retrieving mail
in KMail. That failed with "Could not start process pop3'. I notice a
couple of references to that problem on Google but no solutions that I
could see.

Anyone else struck this or solved it? Did I need to upgrade anything other
than the various kde packages?

(Gone back to 3.3 for the time being)

--
Roger Brown
roger2@rogerbrown.no-ip.org
http://rogerbrown.no-ip.org

Roger Brown wrote:

> Fine (using packages at linuxpackages.net) - UNTIL I tried retrieving
> mail in KMail. That failed with "Could not start process pop3'.

Any console putput?

Cheerz Lars

One of the issues with 3.4 is that for smpt auth you have to hav
cyrus-sasl. And kdebase has to be rebuilt. On Linuxpackages w
posted fixes for this if you check back on the site. Due to th
buggy history of cyrus-sasl at this point it just doesn't make sens
to include or make it a requirement for the package so we jus
created an alternate kdebase-sasl package for those that need thi
option. Hope the dev team at kde get enough email about this to ge
them to go back to the other way or figure something else out beside
requiring those libs. Guess we will have to wait and see ho
Slackware will work around this in the future or if it will star
shiping with cyrus-sasl

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Le Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:39:41 +0000, tg a écrit*:

> One of the issues with 3.4 is that for smpt auth you have to have
> cyrus-sasl. And kdebase has to be rebuilt. On Linuxpackages we
> posted fixes for this if you check back on the site. Due to the
> buggy history of cyrus-sasl at this point it just doesn't make sense
....

I add up to this :-)

AAMOF I tried the Linuxpackages stack but it didn't make it
with this issue, even though I installed the cyrus-sasl and
the sasl'ed base pkg.
I'm sorry I haven't time to investigate at the moment, so I
reverted to 3.3 and had a funky issue with Kmail refusing to
start whining it couldn't create $HOME/Mail ...

In real it is just a sequel of 3.4betas which introduced
to set an interpreting value to the '^folders=' reference !

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

as you like it.