On Freitag 13 Februar 2009, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando wrote: > Hi all! > > After few weeks suffer (under XP) I came back and I have few questions! > I installed kde-4.2 and this is love at first sight! > > But - there is always an 'but'... ;) - k3b is depends on > kdelibs-3.5.x. Yesterday I wanted to update my system and kdelibs-4.x > and kdelibs-3.5.x are blocked package. > I installed kde-4.2 with kdeprefix USE flag.
install k3b-9999 from the kde-testing overlay. It depends on kde 4.X > > Other hand the Openoffice with kde flag has dependency to kdelibs-3.5.x. > well, what do you get from ooo with kde useflag? Isn#t it just an artwork flag? > Other thing is powerdevil. This is an laptop (Dell Latitude e6400) and > with cpufrequtils I can manipulate (speedstep) the processors but > under KDE-4 I can't. I can't turn off one processor. I think > powerdevil can't communicate with something. The error message is > suggested few things and I did install these libs (libXext and one > more, I'm under Xp and I can't view) > Under XP I can choose many profile. With the hardest the laptop can > work almost 4 hours with batterys. Under Linux on 800Mhz (2 > processors) the powertop say ~2.5 hours. I think this is more than big > difference. you can create power profiles in the systemsettings app. But linux is known not to be as good as windows xp when it comes to power savings. > > I thought that I downgrade the system to kde-3.5 and I will make an > usable environment with compiz to work. With the kdeprefix use flag I > can manage kde-4.x tree too. compiz and usable are mutual exclusive. > > So there are my problems and I think I can manage (sometimes this time > is wasted time, but I like Iron Maiden very much ;) ). But I need > yours experience and suggestions, what do you do If you are in my > position? there is no reason to 'downgrade' to kde 3.5. Openoffice is usable without kde-flag - in kde. k3b is available for kde 4.2 (or use tkdvd which is ugly bug can do all the stuff you need most of the time). > > Thank you for help and I'm sorry my english. I feel dizzy, I have flu. not a good time to tinker with your system ;)
