[arch-dev-public] [DRAFT] On the road to KDE 4.1
Hi, Here is a draft of the annaouncement about KDE 4. I hope by this more people give [testing] a try and report bugs. ;-) BTW: Yes, I still think it's possible to push those things to [extra] this weekend. (I hope we wont find any showstoppers; but feedback is positive so far) Patches are welcome: ----------------------------------- On July 29th the KDE team will announce the final release of KDE 4.1, the first usable version of the fourth generation. To make it possible for Arch users to join the release party in time, there are packages for 4.1 in our [testing] repository. Please take this chance to test those and report any packaging bugs using the bug tracker. Before you update you should read the following hints: * This update will NOT be smooth. Not all config files of the old KDE are compatible with 4.1. While the old are kept in ~/.kde the new ones are in /~.kde4. They won't be converted automagically. You could try to copy some files manually and see what happens. (whould work for kmail, konqueror and other; but for some this will break things) Maybe KDE will release a tool for doing this. * If you want to use the KDE desktop make sure you have kdebase-workspace installed, which includes the kdm, the taskbar etc. * if pacman wants to replace packages: Answer YES :-) * At the time of writing not all KDE-based packages have been rebuild for use with new KDE or "legacy libs". If you cannot wait installing kdelibs3 should make them work. But this will be fixed in the repos before things are oushed to [extra] of course. * If you start KDM by inittab make sure to change its path from /opt/kde to /usr * Don't force the upgrade ( -f); repot a bug instead * You might want to (re)move your ~/Desktop folder if you don't like that folder view * The first login takes a while; don't worry about this. It's creating new configs etc. * If you use a nvidia card, please read http://techbase.kde.org/User:Lemma/GPU-Performance * For a short overview about the new features read http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1/ -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Hi,
Here is a draft of the annaouncement about KDE 4. I hope by this more people give [testing] a try and report bugs. ;-)
BTW: Yes, I still think it's possible to push those things to [extra] this weekend. (I hope we wont find any showstoppers; but feedback is positive so far)
Patches are welcome:
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files manually and see what happens. (whould work for kmail, konqueror and other; but for some this will break things) Maybe KDE will release a tool for doing this.
typo: would instead of whould Maybe put the period after the parenthesis instead of after 'happens'
with new KDE or "legacy libs". If you cannot wait installing kdelibs3 should make them work. But this will be fixed in the repos before things are oushed to [extra] of course.
put comma after 'If you cannot wait' oushed ? Is that a word? do you mean 'pushed'?
* Don't force the upgrade ( -f); repot a bug instead
report instead of repot -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
you should not move it before official announcement. think off possible showstoppers and upstream delay. FYI: I couldn't get old FreeNX to work with new kdm/kde4. But I was able to get it running with gnome :) maybe I will find some time to update all NX stuff. -Andy
Am Freitag 25 Juli 2008 23:04:27 schrieb Andreas Radke:
you should not move it before official announcement. think off possible showstoppers and upstream delay.
One or two days shouldn't make a difference. Of course I wont move if I know of any showstoppers. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
Only minor typos: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
* At the time of writing not all KDE-based packages have been rebuild for use rebuild -> rebuilt
with new KDE or "legacy libs". If you cannot wait installing kdelibs3 should comma between "wait" and "installing"
* If you start KDM by inittab make sure to change its path from /opt/kde to by -> with (or "via")
* Don't force the upgrade ( -f); repot a bug instead repot -> report
* If you use a nvidia card, please read Someone may debate here: "an nvidia card"
Other than that, hooray. I actually plan on wiping my win32 laptop and installing Arch on it to use the full KDE suite. Why would I do that? Because it's a spare laptop and lets me help test these things. I don't need the Windows install anymore because I bought a set-top box for Netflix 8)
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 04:06:09PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
* If you use a nvidia card, please read Someone may debate here: "an nvidia card"
No debate. The rule isn't "if it starts with a vowel", it's "if it starts with a vowel sound". "en-vid-ee-ah". Oh and the rest of it looks good too :) -S
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Simo Leone <simo@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 04:06:09PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
* If you use a nvidia card, please read Someone may debate here: "an nvidia card"
No debate. The rule isn't "if it starts with a vowel", it's "if it starts with a vowel sound". "en-vid-ee-ah".
Rephrase: someone may debate here, but they'd be wrong 8)
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Aaron Griffin
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Andreas Radke
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Eric Belanger
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Pierre Schmitz
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Simo Leone