[Mageia-dev] KDE 4.8 updates and panel issues

Wed Feb 1 14:13:40 CET 2012

2012/1/25 Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org>:
+> On Wednesday 25 January 2012 10:47:07 Robert Fox wrote :
+>> I just updated two systems to the latest Cauldron with KDE 4.8 packages
+>> - looking good, except that the panel is now in "Classic Menu" mode and
+>> there is no longer the option to switch to "Application Launcher Menu"
+>>
+>> Am I missing something?
+> Yep,  you probably missed my previous mail regarding the fix for plasmarc
+> reading files ( https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-
+> January/011473.html which is fact might be wrong because even people removing
+> the ~/.kde4/ will probably encounter this bug )
+> So here i would say that you're running 2 pannels (the one that was available
+> before the commit after 4.7.90) & the one you probably added to fix this issue.
+>
+> You should removed this panel.
+>
+> One more point is that the kde update is of course not complete so far (&
+> since the BS is currently under a perl flood i don't know when it will be fixed
+> :p )
+>
+>
+> Regards,
+> --
+> Balcaen John
+> Jabber-id: mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net
+
+I want to report that there's another strange issue that can be fixed
+by same workaround:
+Problem: gtk apps icons don't show in systray.
+Workaround: rm ~/.kde4/config/plasma*
+
+Should be added to errata after wiki is back online.
+