[Mageia-discuss] KDE update problems? Maybe?

Mon Sep 10 20:26:31 CEST 2012

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
+
+> Hi Marc,
+>
+> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:22:53 -0400
+> Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> 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
+> >
+> >
+>
+>
+>
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+>
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