Howdi,
I'm running unstable with very few ring-in packages, and finally did the
Big Upgrade (based on the perception that things seem to have settled
down
a bit now, and based on the fore-warning about -dpi and session choice
;)
1. Bookmarks disappeared. Specifically my konq bookmarks
located at ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml got overwritten
by an empty template. Most disconcerting.
2. kdm (and configuration files associated with same) still continue
to assume everyone has 6 consoles and that X starts on vt7. Something
for debconf perhaps. (F5's always seemed a far more sensible place.)
3. html handling seemed borked briefly, with complaints about khtml*.la
during loading. Once the upgrade was complete, w-konq's I had open
in my earlier session were loading up and showing the html code, rather
than parsing it. Re-loading those pages continued to show the source.
Copy-n-paste the url's into new alt-f2's and they loaded fine. Strange.
4. kabc seems to have lost sight of my sole distribution list, but the
rest
of the data appears to be intact. The distlists file still exists in
../kabc/
but isn't being respected. Seemingly the [ ] format has changed from
(say) [/home/jedd/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf] to [1BR9Ani8qT] ... so
no wonder we're both confused.
5. The panel, specifically the taskbar component, is showing apps
three-high rather than (previously) two-high, but I can't see where that
setting / default was changed. I've upped the font size to try to talk
it
out of this .. but it didn't help.
6. knotes decided to, for reasons I don't quite understand yet, bless
me
with an addition 20 notes - 16 called [Actions] and 4 called [Display].
It makes for a very yellow desktop.
7. In kontact I can't work out how to un-embed the 'todo' section of
korganizer
.. now that to-do's are visible in their own application. I seem to
recall it took
me ages to work out how to get the danged things *into* korganizer eons
ago
too .. so this doesn't bode well.
Yes, some/many of those will have been observed in the bts, and that's
where I'm heading next. I believe many kde / debian users track this
list for potential problems before making a plunge into something new,
so this is a kind of heads-up.
One bit of [always valid] advice : backup ~/.kde/ before you upgrade.
Having said all that, the whole process was actually quite painless. I
dropped out of kde & stopped kdm before doing the upgrade, which
might help. The two stumbling blocks were some force-overwrite
stuff needed with three packages wanting to do something with plastik,
and the non-KDE related problems with libxft divert's that are still
pending (fixable by checking the debian bug against that package).
So a very big thank you to all those involved. If I can replace a few
hundred meatybytes and only get hit with these problems, that's a
pretty danged impressive feat on your behalf.
Cheers,
Jedd.