Hi,
Until recently I was an happy user running LM8.1 and KDE2 for a while on my
dual AMD Linux box. Yesterday I just tried to install KDE3 official and my
story starts here:
1. no problem to install everything from the official rpms, so far so good
2. first try to launch KDE3:
- ksplach crashes
- no more sounds
- all menus empty - hey, sounds familiar...
- about half of my desktop configured icons are corrupted
- kcontrol does not work anymore
3. after a logout and trying to switch back to KDE2:
- first login within KDE2, kdm crashes
- second login is OK but some data files are corrupted - I am a quite
an experienced fox so I had a backup of my .kde and Desktop !
- third login is OK, back to normal.
Good to see my stuff is still OK with KDE2 :-P
4. after running update-menus and trying again
- still my splash screen crashes beautifully :-))
- still no sounds :-(
- menus are OK now
- kcontrol is back
- but... big mess with the fonts and the language set up - guess what...
I am french and so I like these little tiny symbols we put on top of "e"
Finally, after a couple of hours trying to build something usable I gave up.
I will stay with my good KDE2 on top of 8.1, I don't feel things are stable
enougth to invest in 8.2 and KDE3 - well, yes I wrote *invest* as I use Linux
in my office, just fair for my company to buy it isn't ?
Any clues about anything I missed or did wrong ???
Pierre.
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