On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 22:52, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Well people can call me chicken but I never, NEVER upgrade a KDE that's > running on my install.....I prefer waiting for the next general distrib > upgrade (which is never very far away in mdk's case). > I haven't considered it until this last week or two, because it wasn't worth risking problems just for eye-candy. It's only the real problems I'm having with kmail imap that have made me consider it. The developers have always said that imap support was experimental in 1.7.1/3.2.3, so I'm not complaining, but since there are fixes for many of the problems in the next version it's time to consider moving on.
> There were times you could install new kde-upgrades in /opt/ which sorted > out most problems, but sadly they're not of late any more. > > And FWIW: I've got kmail/kontact1.7.2 running on kde 3.3.2 with mdk10.2rc3 > quite stable and satisfactory....but don't ask me what's the diff: I don't > see very much there. Hopefully it's all stability in that respect. > As a pop client everything except gpg-agent was running sweetly. > This machine (my work-horse:triade1) runs kmail1.7.1 on kde3.2.3 with > mdk10.1, but admittedly I don't use imap, only pop-servers. > > It won't hurt upgrading to 10.2rc3 IMO. It's about as stable as 10.1 > official'll ever be...give it a go but don't upgrade, do a fresh install > retaining your /home....(you'll lose win4lin again, though) I haven't moved win4lin to this box yet anyway, so that's not a problem. <sigh> I seem to spend 6 months ironing out problems on a new install, only to have to do it all over again because I need maybe just one thing that the existing install can't give me. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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