On Saturday 17 February 2001 20:47, Neal Lippman wrote:
> 1. Very frequently, I have program crashes, more so that I would have
> expected for "released software." This occurs in KWord, Konquerer (less
> often), and KMail (almost every night when I first started using it, for
> some reason now much less often).
I've been using the 2.1 beta and find Konqueror and Kmail very solid -- in
fact, Kmail has never even hiccuped (even with mail folders containing as
many as 6,000 messages). Konqueror still has minor rendering problems, but it
being worked on agressively and each release shows great improvement.
> 2. KWord has many bugs. For instance, when I select a block of text and try
> to replace it by typing, delete it with the DEL key, etc, it just plain
> doesn't work.
KWord is definitely not ready for prime time, IMHO. However, a new text
widget (originally planned for Qt 3) is being backported for Qt 2 and this
apparently will give KWord a real boost. Here's an article that talks about
this...
http://dot.kde.org/982051267/
I can't help with the printer problems, except to note that there have been
many recent changes to CUPS. Mandrake's printer person reads this list and
has been very responsive to problems reported here. I'd suggest a single post
to the list with something specific about your printer problem in the subject
line.
> Are others having similar problems? Would an upgrade to the beta of kde 2.1
> fix this stuff, or is it just as bad?
KDE in general is much improved in 2.1, but it probably won't help much for
word processing.
M.
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
