On Saturday 12 January 2008 04:43:50 am Paul Hands wrote: > Chris Arnold wrote: > > The first thing is when i installed an app, i could not find it in the > > kmenu. In kde3->kmenu->applications->new programs, i see new apps listed. > > Does kde4 list new apps? > > Second thing, is it possible to have just kde4 installed (and not kde3)? > > Third thing, the trash, my computer and one other icon were question > > marks and did not launch. > > Forth thing, i did not see a way to configure the panel. > > Chris, > > I see all the same issues. The panel particularly bugs me because I had > my KDE3 panel quite heavily customised. > Before I could even get it going, I had to install some extra stuff that > wasn't listed as dependencies. I got the infamous "Can't start kdeint4. > Check your installation" message. Turned out that I had to install > strigi-0.5.7-20.3 to get kdeinit4 to launch. Only then would KDE4 run. > I'm not even sure what strigi is. > Now it's running, it looks awful. it's clunky and slow and things crash > randomly. Klipper won't paste text from a bash terminal with middle > mouse click - I have to do paste without formatting from the context menu. > > You could remove KDE3 and then install KDE4 from a curses yast2. KDE4 > instals into a different place (/usr) from KDE3 (/opt), and they are > meant to be completely separated. > > I'm disappointed in KDE4, and won't be removing KDE3 for some time yet. > One of the KDE developers was saying online that it wasn't ready last > week, and recommending a further period of testing. I agree. I don't > think it's ready, and I think this release will damage KDE's > reputation. For me, that's a real shame, as I've been a KDE user > exclusively since SuSE 5.1 came out. > > Paul
1) Found on link I gave before http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/KDE4 : http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/talking-bluntly.html http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3174 http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2600 2) What version you are running. Strigi was a problem for me with version provided with 10.3 release. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
