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A couple of interesting points, here is the lot: + +1. After this minimum install, I habe been unable to create media of +type file (urpmi.addmedia): although urpmi had been correctly installed, +genhdlist2 was missing - I guess a dependency of urpmi on genhdlist2 is +missing. + +2. Korganizer installs and runs well, but importing an existing .vcs +calendar does not work: Korganizer finds the file with the existing +calendar, but then creates an empty new calendar of that name - does not +import the contents of the existing calendar + +3. I was positively surprised: printer installation - often a problem +with new releases - went quite well. Printer detection (hp laserjet MP 6 +on the parallel port and networked hp deskjet 6127) without any problem. +However (for both), finding the driver was a funny business: took far +too much time, and iterated between "searching for driver", short flash +of some other window, and again "searching for driver", but with some +patience the result turned out OK. + +4. Another positive surprise: both lighttpd and backuppc services got +started as they should, no problem with systemd (except see 5) + +5. Service control with drkconf.real -> System -> Manage system services +practically does not work. Start and Stop do not seem to have much +effect (and no feedback on the running/stopped indication); but the "On +boot" button seems to do what it is supposed to do). But the whole thing +appears to be shaky, it happened ( once, I did not make an effort to +reproduce the problem) that the services window came up with all "On +boot" buttons unchecked - correct display after a re-boot. The service +control facility of drakconf.real certainly still needs some debugging. +I dont know whether the command-line alternative (/etc/inet.d/<service> +<action> is still supposed to work under systemd, for the services I +dealt with it does not. + +6. Several packages which use Gtk (started from a console) display an +error message when they start: "ldconfig: /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 is not +a symbolic link" + +7. The geda packages which I am maintaining (and which worked under +Alpha 1 now throw - mostly Gtk and oxygen related - errors, I will have +to re-dig and rebuild these packages). That may be a warning to other +package maintainers who did their homework early: packages built under +Alpha1 dont necessarily work any more. + +8. Sometime soon after boot, there is practically alway a notification +popup saying "Error while initializing DBus, Disabling the service" + +9. System Shutdown is going from bad to worse - earlier, it most times +just got stuck - now after some initial screen waggling, the desktop +activates again. I have ended up to do "reboot" from Konsole. + +10. The random console switching problem is still there, but the +workaround suggested is OK. + +11. KDE +- the taskbar now has a vertically graded background - very light gray +at its top, rather dark gray at its bottom - apparenly not configurable; +the dark gray at the bottom results in far too little contrast with dark +fonts and makes the lower part of the taskbar difficult to read, with +light fonts the opposite - nice look, but user-unfriendly. + +- the titlebar (Oxygen) still has no colour, distinguishing the active +window from inactive windows is still difficult + +- creating popup menu buttons in the taskbar still does not work - a +show stopper for me. + +This using Alpha 3 in-spite of all took so much time that I now have to +catch up with other stuff that got left behind - no time left for +distilling these issues into bug reports. But I hope that this snapshot +helps; and I will, as Marja suggested, make comments in the already +existing bugzilla reports to clarify that the bugs are still open and, +where adequate, insist on their importance. +</PRE> + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="006515.html">[Mageia-discuss] Fosdem report +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="006508.html">[Mageia-discuss] Alpha 3 snapshot +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#6507">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#6507">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#6507">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#6507">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |