michael schuster wrote:
> Adriaan de Groot wrote:
>> On Friday 05 December 2008 19:55:22 Michael Schuster wrote:
>>> - run the attached script make_KDE_from_specs.sh
>>> - restart Xsession
>>>
>>> I see the first icon (hard disk) on the splash screen come up nicely ...
>>> then nothing happens for about 10-20 seconds, then the session dies. This
>>> is repeatable.
>> If you start up a failsafe session and run /opt/foss/qt4/bin/qdbusviewer, do
>> you get an overview of what's on the bus? What about when you do the same
>> from
>> inside GNOME?
>
> this will probably(*) have to wait until we get back to the US .. ie,
> mid-January. sorry.
I downloaded the packages from solaris.bionimutton.org, installed
everything on my Lenovo T60p (with ATI graphics :-() following the
instructions (as far as I was able ;-), here's the status:
1) I can now log in and use KDE - I'm in KDE as I write this. SUCCESS!
2) plasma crashes; I have to yet install gdb to see more details (didn't
find a core file to analyse post facto)
3) most changes to settings causes the settings manager(?) to crash - this
is esp. unfortunate when it leaves the screen dark on dark or white on
white :-(
4) something consumes a lot of CPU - I suspect this had to do with my
graphics adapter, but cannot prove it.
5) screen lock still fails when I try to unlock, but xlock provides an
adequate WA for me.
6) libsunmath.so.1 is still missing from the installation (although I may
have messed that up, who knows? :-)
biggest gripe, and, sadly, showstopper for me (unless someone can provide
me with a W/A):
font sizes are TOO BIG.
The initial settings (10 pt. for most) gives me fonts where I get about
30(!) lines on the screen. When I set them down to 8 (here the settings
manager works nicely, no crash ;-), kde-aware apps seem to take those
changes ... but thunderbird doesn't, and I yet have to find a setting in TB
to set the font size for its' own menus and tree view, etc - basically, the
non-mail content panels: these are still way too large, and where I
normally see ca 30 email subjects, I now see about 10 - this is in effect a
loss of screen real estate that I find hard to stomach.
If someone knows how to fix this last issue (or any other), please let me
know! I'd really like to give KDE more exposure.
TIA
Michael
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