/me smacking my head (KDE2.2beta1 experiences)
Hi there,
I went the `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade` path today, mainly
to check out the new KDE beta. Very stupid idea. Konqueror keeps
crashing in file-manager mode and kcontrol crashes on some modules. I
read on the list, that erasing .kde might help, and putting years of
unix experience aside, I issued `rm -rf ~/.kde`. Yeah! Now, my
bookmarks are gone. Okay, I never go back to them anyway and I know all
important sides. But wait, what about my address book, that's in .kde,
too, isn't it?! $:_$§)("!§"§$°
Oh well, that must have been the most stupid thing I've done on a Unix
machine this year. Which, of course, means, that for this year I've
done my fair share of being a luser. Life goes on.
Of course, since the new KDE definatelly is an improvement, I'm willing
to just put this episode aside. Here's my two hour roundup with 2.2:
- As I said konq crashes in file-manager mode. First I suspected it was
the integrated terminal emulater, but that's not the problem. Erasing
~/.kde actually did help, but after changing some options in kcontrol,
konq crashes again. I'm investigating this.
- kcontrol crashes, when I try to change fonts (appearance -> fonts?).
The anti-aliasing checkbox works, but when I try to change a font and ok
the dialog, kcontrol barfs. Luckily KDE uses text files!
- A lot of kcontrol modules stopped working: They just say: "Beim Laden
des Moduls ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Die Diagnose lautet:", in
English something like "Loading of the module failed, the diagnosis
is:" No diagnosis is given. This happened with an earlier 2.1 upgrade
in unstable about two or three weeks ago, I wrote to the mailing list
back than. Now the following modules also fail: kcmlayout, kcmnotify,
arts, midi, audiocd.
- The audiocd:/ ioslave stopped working. artsd is working, but won't
start automatically (this problem is actually three weeks old)
- The blinking of the program icon with the mouse cursor is annoying,
because it looks butt-ugly. I like the visual feedback, so I just
stopped the blinking
Cheers,
Viktor
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Viktor Rosenfeld
WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
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