jedd writes: > Howdi, I'm running unstable with very few ring-in packages, and > finally did the Big Upgrade (based on the perception that things > seem to have settled down a bit now, and based on the fore-warning > about -dpi and session choice ;)
> 1. Bookmarks disappeared. Specifically my konq bookmarks > located at ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml got > overwritten by an empty template. Most disconcerting. This is very strange. Are you sure you haven't done anything wrong yourself ? If not, you can file a bug report about this at bugs.kde.org. > 2. kdm (and configuration files associated with same) still > continue to assume everyone has 6 consoles and that X starts on > vt7. Something for debconf perhaps. (F5's always seemed a far > more sensible place.) /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers is a config file, you can edit it. > 3. html handling seemed borked briefly, with complaints about > khtml*.la during loading. Once the upgrade was complete, > w-konq's I had open in my earlier session were loading up and > showing the html code, rather than parsing it. Re-loading > those pages continued to show the source. Copy-n-paste the > url's into new alt-f2's and they loaded fine. Strange. Don't upgrade kde while you have a kde session open. > 4. kabc seems to have lost sight of my sole distribution list, but > the rest > of the data appears to be intact. The distlists file still exists > in ../kabc/ but isn't being respected. Seemingly the [ ] format > has changed from (say) [/home/jedd/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf] to > [1BR9Ani8qT] ... so no wonder we're both confused. I don't know about this. Again, if you think this is a bug, you can file a bug report about this at bugs.kde.org. > 5. The panel, specifically the taskbar component, is showing apps > three-high rather than (previously) two-high, but I can't see where > that setting / default was changed. I've upped the font size to > try to talk it out of this .. but it didn't help. Is this a problem ? AFAIK, it decides how many apps to show in there based on the size of the panel you set. > 6. knotes decided to, for reasons I don't quite understand yet, > bless me > with an addition 20 notes - 16 called [Actions] and 4 called > [Display]. It makes for a very yellow desktop. This is a known bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237184 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73404 > 7. In kontact I can't work out how to un-embed the 'todo' section > of korganizer > .. now that to-do's are visible in their own application. I seem > to recall it took me ages to work out how to get the danged things > *into* korganizer eons ago too .. so this doesn't bode well. I don't know about this. Again, if you think this is a bug, you can file a bug report about this at bugs.kde.org. > Yes, some/many of those will have been observed in the bts, and > that's where I'm heading next. I believe many kde / debian users > track this list for potential problems before making a plunge into > something new, so this is a kind of heads-up. If you're filing bug reports on bugs that are clearly upstream problems, can you then please file them at bugs.kde.org. > One bit of [always valid] advice : backup ~/.kde/ before you > upgrade. > Having said all that, the whole process was actually quite > painless. I dropped out of kde & stopped kdm before doing the > upgrade, which might help. The two stumbling blocks were some > force-overwrite stuff needed with three packages wanting to do > something with plastik, please file a bug report on this. > and the non-KDE related problems with > libxft divert's that are still pending (fixable by checking the > debian bug against that package). > So a very big thank you to all those involved. If I can replace a > few hundred meatybytes and only get hit with these problems, that's > a pretty danged impressive feat on your behalf. I'm sure the relevant people are on this list :) cheers domi
