[arch-general] KDE 4.2.0 in [testing]

Nicolas Bigaouette nbigaouette at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 12:26:33 EST 2009


So I checked in systemsettings under "Keyboard & Mouse/Global Shortcuts" but
"KDE Components" is empty... I cannot change de shortcuts... I tried
importing the default kde4 one or resetting to defaults, but did not changed
anything...


2009/1/23 Nicolas Bigaouette <nbigaouette at gmail.com>

> I installed it (and with everything from testing... is there a way to
> _just_ update testing/kde and not all packages??). I switched to run level
> 3, backed up my ~/.kde4, updated, then switched back to rl 5.
>
> It looks really nice! Here are my comments:
> 1) Strigi is said to be suspended, but I can hear my HD going crazy... Is
> it really suspended?
> nicolas  17488  1.6  0.7 320124 27600 ?        SNl  12:06   0:06
> /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukstrigiservice
>
> 2) Theme is dark... See
> http://nbigaouette.inrs-emt.homelinux.net/linux/arch/kde42.png The menu is
> unreadable... Its hard also on the task bar. But the menu is really bad.
>
> 3) Alt-Tab, Alt+F1, Alt+F2, ctrl+alt+left/right stopped working.
>
> The rest seems _really_ nice! :)
>
>
> 2009/1/22 David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>
>
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Dan Vratil <progdan at progdansoft.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also, could please someone confirm me, that KDE 4.1 freezes when
>>>> updating?
>>>> After some package was updated, Plasma went frozen and I had to shutdown
>>>> the X
>>>> server and finnish the update from console.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This could be serious. If, for some reason, you are updating something
>>> like bash and dependent libraries at the same time, the upgrade could
>>> be aborted when bash is updated but dependent libs are not, breaking
>>> bash. It's probably not likely, but is a possibility (it did happen to
>>> be once a long time ago)
>>>
>>
>> Dunno if I'm being superstitious or not, but I always make sure to not be
>> running an app when pacman goes to update it.  (e.g., exit X when updating X
>> or KDE, shut down a daemon like cups or ssh when updating it, dropping to
>> single user mode when updating the kernel, etc.)
>>
>> DR
>>
>
>
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