Not to sound cruel and unsympathetic here or anything, but what exactly did
you think the *BETA* part of the release number meant?
I certainly hope that you are also reporting this on the KDE developer's
list, where the report will actually have a chance of doing some good.... :-)
--Dave
Praedor Tempus grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> Oh man...I installed kde3 beta 2 from cooker (new rpms) and it works
> but it does have a few issues. Man, the default look for menus is
> butt-ugly and designed like it is for a blind retard (Kmenu in
> particular).
>
> Some app windows also tend to be bigger than the screen and guess what?
> You can no longer move the window up or down by hitting the Alt key
> and dragging via the cursor. I don't know HOW to move windows around
> anymore except to click and drag from the titlebar which is useless if
> you are trying to bring the bottom of a window into view - and to make
> it worse, apparently you cannot resize the windows either. I was
> trying to resize the kmail addressbook window so I could see/use the
> buttons at the bottom of the window but it is impossible. I cannot
> resize the window to make it fit, and I cannot drag it up to bring the
> buttons into view.
>
> I also used to have a kmail kab addressbook and just as I read in a
> review last week, the new kmail cannot import it - it SAYS it can but
> when trying, it cannot find it anywhere so it might as well not exist.
>
> Kmail's look is also f*cked over and UGLY. I LIKED the old kmail fancy
> header design. Know what the new fancy headers design is? Just a
> plain, ugly two-color date-time and from window. No more cool KDE
> gear or even some other fancy graphic. I also am not able to get the
> kmail Subject, Sender, Date, etc lists to antialias even though I can
> get the message text to antialias. No matter what font I select (the
> beautiful arial) it remains nasty-jaggy-non-antialiased.
>
> For the moment, I also lost sound with the new kde3. Before, it was
> broken for me too (KDE 2.2.2) but I could get it to work by restarting
> artsd after logging in. I've tried that in KDE 3 and there are NO
> error messages anywhere but...no sound at all. The soundcard IS
> identified and loaded properly, however. This one might just be a
> continuing f*ckup that kde/artsd has with my IBM ThinkPad (esd likes
> it fine).
>
> Well, I haven't yet found any problems beyond what I listed...Oh yeah,
> KDM is gone, kapput, no more, no worky. I am stuck with the
> narly/nasty gdm. And it wont start kde 3 even though it is listed in
> its sessions menu (what a clunker gdm is!). I will be trying to fix
> it here by creating a symlink from the new "startkde3" to "starkde"
> and see if that satisfies it. For now I have to start kde3 from a
> CLI.
>
> Be warned, thus I send all this.
>
> praedor
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