[arch-dev-public] [DRAFT] On the road to KDE 4.1
DRAFT 2, and yes I still have to find out how this new spellchecker in kde4 works ;-) ----------------------------------- 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. This might work for kmail, konqueror and others, but will break things for others. 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 rebuilt 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 pushed to [extra] of course. * If you start KDM with inittab make sure to change its path from /opt/kde to /usr * Don't force the upgrade ( -f); report 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 an 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
Am Samstag 26 Juli 2008 00:29:37 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
DRAFT 2, and yes I still have to find out how this new spellchecker in kde4 works ;-)
May anyone check dev.archlinux.org? There is no button to post a new news entry. (I think I'll wait for release with that announcement) -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
2008/7/27 Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
There is a link (for me) on this page: https://dev.archlinux.org/news/ (upper right corner). You have permission to post news so you should be able to see this link. If not, its a bug and I will look into it later this afternoon. Let me know. Dusty
Am Sonntag 27 Juli 2008 14:57:33 schrieb Dusty Phillips:
Let's call it a bug then. Otherwise I am blind ;-) http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/tmp/al-news.png I have posted news before; so I have no idea what happend. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
2008/7/27 Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
I was doing some permission cleanup a couple weeks back at Aaron's request, I must have messed up. At least, I'm pretty sure its my fault. Allan? I will try very hard to fix it this afternoon. Between newsletter, schwag, and case badges, I have NOT been spending the kind of time on Arch development that I expected to. :-/ Dusty
Dusty Phillips wrote:
And I was restraining from a Dusty broke it reply! BTW, it is broken for me too.
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Let's call it a bug then. Otherwise I am blind ;-) http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/tmp/al-news.png
Same here. BTW, the news look good to me.
2008/7/27 Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
BTW Let me or one of the superusers know if you want the news posted earlier. I can actually post it and change the owner to you so it looks like you posted it if you like. Dusty
Am Sonntag 27 Juli 2008 16:16:35 schrieb Dusty Phillips:
OK, just do this; this way there is no need for you to hurry with finding the bug. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
2008/7/27 Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
Its been posted, (Or will have been when the cache on the site is updated) I'll try to fix the bug tonight, but I just wiped out a bunch of data for one of my clients and needed to spend some time recovering it so I'm running kind of late today. *sigh* BTW, thanks for all your work on KDE, its a big job! Dusty
participants (4)
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Allan McRae
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Dusty Phillips
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Hugo Doria
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Pierre Schmitz