Hi,

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>           Please state the version of KDE and don't say "KDE4". There
>> is big difference between KDE4 and KDE 4.0/4.0.4/4.1/4.1.1.  "KDE4"
>> means something different. You will find enough documents on the
>> internet about this. Do read about it.
>>
>>
> I had mentioned that it is upgraded to the latest packages through apt.
> Fresh and piping hot. :-)

          Yeah so? I don't use Kubuntu so I don't know what is latest
in Kubuntu repos.

          So you need to state the version which causes you the
problem, thats a common thing required for bugs. You *need* to state
the version number so that developers can narrow down the issue. A
version tracker generally has a version component ( and
downstream/upstream component )

           Anyway, I am not sure if you understood main point. KDE4 is
*not* a version.  KDE 4.0/4.1/4.1.1 and so on are versions of KDE.
KDE4 is an ongoing "journey".

> What is an upstream or downstream problem? I just install GNU/Linux and

           Ok, so it works this way .... FOSS projects ( KDE ) write
software. Distros ( Kubuntu ) take those software and make changes
sometimes to those software and release them. What you see in Kubuntu
is *not* pristine KDE sources. They are moderately to heavily patched
at times.

           So KDE is upstream. A distro - kubuntu - is downstream. In
an ideal world, downstream people should send bugfixes and patches
back to upstream and keep the diff small. Some distros follow that
well - example - Fedora. Some don't, unfortunately.

            Now the bug you faced, might be a downstream problem - a
kubuntu specific problem, which has nothing to do with KDE. Since you
don't build KDE from sources, you can't be sure that its an upstream
problem. Guess what, in KDE bug tracker, you state which version of
KDE you are using and the origin of sources/build.


> use KDE. Found the problem just yesterday at someone's place.

           Which distro? Which version of distro? Which version of KDE.


           Cheers!

Pradeepto
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