KDE 4.2 "The Answer" Released

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^^Try changing the theme ... and check if the system tray works.. Also if that doesn't work unlock widgets and remove system tray and re -enable it by right clicking and adding widgets..

you were using wrong site .. Try Imgx.rog or imageshack.us to post thumbnails.. They will provide codes to use thumbnails in forums..
 
Rahim

Rahim

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^Did all that but no luck. Is it opensuse 11.1 related? I even deleted ~/.kde & ~/.kde4 folders. The icons are there and it works, but it looks ugly with those empty boxes :|

PS: Dont photobucket provides codes for thumbnails?
 
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Faun

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^^it provides, check account options at top right

Click on Link Options in Album Setting and check appropriately :D
 
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vista__n00b

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I am using KDE 4.2 on OpenSUSE 11.1.

I have to agree that 4.2 is much better than the joke that KDE team provided to us in form of 4.0 but it still doesn't come in "STABLE" category. If anything, it has graduated from being Alpha quality to Beta. Wouldn't even call it a "Release Candidate" either. Plasma and Konqueror still crash randomly, few plasmoids would just hang when you try to open or close them making you go through the logout and login routine (Such a WINDOWey thing to do), Kickoff performance is sluggish and the MacOS imitations like Grid Desktop and Expose clones are just not polished enough yet.

I hate to say it but I am doing things much quickly and efficiently in a minimalistic environment like XFCE than in KDE 4.2. Just my 2 cents.

P.S. BTW to get everything working properly you just HAVE to delete your home folder. Save the files you need to some folder and do a 'rm -Rf' on your home folder.
 
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MetalheadGautham

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vista__n00b said:
I am using KDE 4.2 on OpenSUSE 11.1.

I have to agree that 4.2 is much better than the joke that KDE team provided to us in form of 4.0 but it still doesn't come in "STABLE" category. If anything, it has graduated from being Alpha quality to Beta. Wouldn't even call it a "Release Candidate" either. Plasma and Konqueror still crash randomly, few plasmoids would just hang when you try to open or close them making you go through the logout and login routine (Such a WINDOWey thing to do), Kickoff performance is sluggish and the MacOS imitations like Grid Desktop and Expose clones are just not polished enough yet.

I hate to say it but I am doing things much quickly and efficiently in a minimalistic environment like XFCE than in KDE 4.2. Just my 2 cents.

P.S. BTW to get everything working properly you just HAVE to delete your home folder. Save the files you need to some folder and do a 'rm -Rf' on your home folder.
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The stability actually depends on the distro. SuSE often uses lots of patches, many unverified. Try something with vanilla KDE4.2 like ArchLinux.

As for home folder removing, DONT. Just remove .kde, .kde4 folders. That will do.
 
vista__n00b

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MetalheadGautham said:
As for home folder removing, DONT. Just remove .kde, .kde4 folders. That will do.
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Actually that doesn't "DO". There are folders like .icons, .Apps and other cache folders that will cause problems. An example of this is there in this thread only where a user cannot see icons in his system tray.
 
shady_inc

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MetalheadGautham said:
The stability actually depends on the distro. SuSE often uses lots of patches, many unverified. Try something with vanilla KDE4.2 like ArchLinux.

As for home folder removing, DONT. Just remove .kde, .kde4 folders. That will do.
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Same set of stability issues here.Will wait for 4.3 to be released this summer before trying out KDE again.Back to XFCE for now...
Try something with vanilla KDE4.2 like ArchLinux.
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Well, me is on Arch with KDEmod 4.2[not much changes from stock KDE]....
 
abhinandh

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rahimveron said:
Upgraded to KDE 4.2 in OpenSUSE 11.1 but my system tray's icons like kinternet, klipper, volume, etc are invisible, only rectangular blocks :(
Sorry dont know how to post thumbnails

Image Below
*i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/rahimveron/taskbar1.png
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aha! by chance do you use an intel card???

cos i just rectified the same issue :D
 
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As my FAI broke my blog i couldn’t wrote any news.

For the last few weeks, we worked a lot on kde4, first we, now, have kde 4.2.0 final so now we will able to work on design, and stabilize our kde4. For that we started by backporting some trunk features for solid ( bluez ), simpleapplet menu ( the recent application feature ) and Nepomuk.

Secondly, i work a lot on the first login ( but i know there is still a lot of work to do). Now users will be happy to find a kde4 which looks like to kde3 with folderview in full screen.

Regarding the open bugreports we have only a few “mdv” specific bugs which is good but we need more testers to be sure to not have a lot of bugreport against Spring when final version will be available.

Concerning K3b we will work to have a working kde4 version before spring
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Siince MDV is the main sponsors and developers of k3b its gr8 to know it will be ready before major distro release :D *planetmandriva.zarb.org/

Thatss spring is the MDV next ver. 2009.1 Sprinf ed.
 
Rahim

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abhinandh said:
comment out the "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" option from /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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Here is my xorg.conf file. Tell me which portion to edit:

# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2009-01-12T20:33:33+0530.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <*lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 267 200
HorizSync 30-55
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "SAMSUNG SAMTRON 55V"
Option "DPMS"
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
VendorName "SAM"
VertRefresh 43-120
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection


Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1024x768" 73.89 1024 1080 1192 1360 768 769 772 799
Modeline "800x600" 57.97 800 840 928 1056 600 601 604 631
Modeline "800x600" 51.73 800 840 928 1056 600 601 604 628
Modeline "800x600" 44.85 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 625
Modeline "800x600" 38.22 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 622
EndSection


Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
Virtual 2048 1200
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
Virtual 2048 1200
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
Virtual 2048 1200
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
Virtual 2048 1200
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection


Section "Device"
BoardName "845"
Driver "intel"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Option "EXANoComposite"
VendorName "Intec"
EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection


Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "on"
EndSection
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Liverpool_fan

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a_rahim said:
^After 17th, right? Poor Anurag :D Rag koro naa!!
The default interface is mind blowing. I am definitely booked this sunday over KDE 4.2
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Ha...Got it finally today with KDEmod.
I've got to say it WAAAAY better than KDE 4.1 and better in usability than KDE 4.1. No crashes in 4 hours which is huge improvement as I got more crashes than hours in KDE 4.1 :p
And its the BEST looking desktop I've used so far...
The only problem is that plasma crashes quite frequently with new widgets but that's not much problem that it loads back again...
 
shady_inc

shady_inc

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w00t...Downloading KDE 4.2 again.Will try it with Nvidia 180.29 drivers this time since lots of Arch users who, like me, had issues with 180.22 drivers and KDE 4.2 had it sorted with 180.29.Keeping my fingers crossed....
I *tried* switching to GNOME for a while, but it doesn't match up to the mighty KDE.! :D Most GNOME apps have only bare minimum options to configure, much like the environment itself.Though, I kind of liked Nautilus more than Dolphin.Hoping it works fine on KDE....
 
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