devries Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Post all bugs and problems and comments you have with Thac and Zé's KDE 3.5 rpms in this topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 * The srpms are not available. Question for Thac: do depend those rpm's again on PLF and contrib? And do they depend on a different xorg version than the version that comes with MDV 2006? Thanks, chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thac Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 (edited) * The srpms are not available. They will be in a little while Question for Thac: do depend those rpm's again on PLF and contrib? yes And do they depend on a different xorg version than the version that comes with MDV 2006? yes Edited October 24, 2005 by thac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Thanks, Thac. Will need to build my own kde 3.5 then, sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 First problems: artsdsp doesn't work (for example artsdsp opera gives 'artsdsp works only for binaries' Kicker: transparency doesn't work (it only works if you edit the kickerrc by hand. same goes for hide/vie applet handles) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmodem Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 First problems: artsdsp doesn't work (for example artsdsp opera gives 'artsdsp works only for binaries' Kicker: transparency doesn't work (it only works if you edit the kickerrc by hand. same goes for hide/vie applet handles) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I would like to clarify some aspects, in first place remember this is still -kde-3.5.0 beta, so its to expect that some bugs will appear, like for example kicker log out crashes still arent all fixed, remains one to be fixed, arts still crashes some times, and other apps bugs, but these are minor bugs, they dont stop you from using this goog kde-3.5.0, so you see these are all kde specific bugs that are going being resolved by who knows well the kde source code, kde developers. In what i can, i will resolve things, for example i have just made a new kdelibs and kdebase that have a new kdm, a konq fix, and other kicker fix, go check in our site. As Thac told i have been using this kde for more then one month, since it was released in branch_3.5, and just now i decided to realease it, since now i see that is more stable. If i had released some time ago than you would have many complaines... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Thanks for clarifying :). I've been playing with kde 3.5 some and as far as I can see it is good enough for my use. However other people might get annoyed with some of these bugs so it's better to mention them. Another one: noatun makes arts crash :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thac Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Another one: noatun makes arts crash :) yes we will try to get that fixed but you can test the new amarok-1.3.4 that i added instead i did also add latest k3b built with kmonkeyaudioplugin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thac Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 I have built missing akode-2.0b3 and a new kdemultimedia built with akodes and oggvorbis support. Please test theese two if it solves any of the multimedia arts bugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 I´ll try later today. Don´t have time now. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 I tried downloading latest packages but got a download error (kdemultimedia wasn't listed at all). I guess you're syncing the mirror. I'll try tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Ok installed the latest packages. I´m afraid it didn´t solve the old problems and created a new one: The arts engine for amarok no longer works. Other then these problems it´s working great. Definately worth the upgrade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thac Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 strange the amarok arts engine works here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thac Posted October 28, 2005 Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 finally found out what is causing the noatun bug and probably some more related to arts it as so many times before a gcc bug anyway zé is building a new kdebase with the workaround added I will announce when available Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted October 28, 2005 Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 I gave kde3.5 a pretty good try on my Mandriva2006-Official. It looked really good, but sound notification, namely arts would not work no matter what I tried. The biggest problem was a steady stream of crash error messages related to kded about every 20 to 30 seconds. The next problem was a repeat of the early kdm debacle when kde 3.4 was first released. I had to do the same workarounds of installing gdm to use instead of kdm. When I originally did the 3.5 install (done in init 3), I didn't get the crash messages but by doing a systematic check I found that kdebase-common was not installed. Went into MCC and selected the package and ran the install. It seemed to run mormally but a check revealed that it had not been installed. Tried 5 times, no success. Tried from from a console but still no success. Took the bull by the horns and did an uninstall of 3.5 and then a reinstall, all from the cli. This time I watched the entire procedure and discovered that the install passed by 22 packages it had problems with. I kicked the install into motion again and this time 10 packages were bypassed so kicked the install this 3rd time and all packages were finally completed. Had not rebooted but everything seemed to work AOK. Decided to reboot and after getting past the login problem with the usual workaround, then the crash messages started. All referred to kded. Kat was never included in the install so it had nothing to do with it as others have experienced. I tolerated the crash problem for about 2 days and tried to find what caused it but have now entirely deleted kde3.5 and reinstalled kde3.4. Going back to 3.4 was quite an experience because the system refused to go back to and install older dated software packages initially. So I had to work out a way to get around that problem and to my great pleasure and surprise, I succedded. I feel a little pleased with myself for having learnt a lot more about the system workings which are becoming much less a mystery to me. I will still be following kde3.5, it really is nice. Cheers Thac and collegues. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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