On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Marc, > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:22:53 -0400 > Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am just wondering if it is just me, but, ever since the KDE update, > > Which KDE update? > > > I had problems with my desktops and laptops (5 in total). I have had > > to delete .kde4 (Home folder) on 4 of these boxes, and the last one > > has not been updated yet (my son just finished his summer holidays > > and was breaking in his Windows partition with his new install of > > WOW); > > Just a note - NEVER (!!) delete ~/.kde4/ as this will lose all your > settings. > You can instead move it away using the "mv" command: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv > > I'm just mentioning it so people won't be encouraged to do so (and you > shouldn't do > so in the future). > > > now that summer vacation is over and WOW time is reduced, he > > will have to update. I was hoping he would try playing WOW on his > > Mageia partition. > > > > Has anyone else had any problems? > > > > Some of the problems that I have had: > > > > -- general slow down in speed > > -- Klipper would disappear at login > > -- the Lan connection Icon would disappear > > -- some of the KDE preferences would somehow go back to their default > > state > That happened to my wife's laptop. The background image got reset to a default option, and the picture she had originally set did not even appear as an option to change to. (Right click options on the desktop). > > -- log off widget in the taskbar (lower-right) would quit > > responding > > -- re-start option (Start button ...) would also stop > > responding > > > > > I didn't encounter any of these problems either on Mageia 2 x86-64 or > Mageia Cauldron > x86-64. If you can reproduce them somehow, you can file bug reports on > http://bugs.kde.org/ . > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > The problems happened intermittently. The KDE bug assistant did come > > up on one of my 2 laptops but I did not have sufficient information > > to submit the bug report, just general stuff like above. > > > > I've deleted the .kde4 file and they all run fine now. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Marc > > > > > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > My Public Domain Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/ > > I’d do Windows-- , but this may result in an integer underflow. > — an Israeli Linuxer. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . >
