Re: 3.1 to 3.2 observations
jedd writes:
> 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.
This is very strange. Are you sure you haven't done anything wrong
yourself ? If not, you can file a bug report about this at
bugs.kde.org.
> 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.)
/etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers is a config file, you can edit it.
> 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.
Don't upgrade kde while you have a kde session open.
> 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.
I don't know about this. Again, if you think this is a bug, you can
file a bug report about this at bugs.kde.org.
> 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.
Is this a problem ? AFAIK, it decides how many apps to show in there
based on the size of the panel you set.
> 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.
This is a known bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237184
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73404
> 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.
I don't know about this. Again, if you think this is a bug, you can
file a bug report about this at bugs.kde.org.
> 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.
If you're filing bug reports on bugs that are clearly upstream
problems, can you then please file them at bugs.kde.org.
> 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,
please file a bug report on this.
> 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.
I'm sure the relevant people are on this list :)
cheers
domi
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