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Old 06-24-2005, 11:23 AM   #1
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Any one try KDE 3.4.1 ?


Hey all, I am wondering if anyone has tried the new kde 3.4.1? I have noticed that debians stable kde is quit old, but has been working fine exept for one thing. If I mount a media through the desktop icon, I cant unmount without having to kill kdeinit. I would be thinking by the new kde 3.4.1 that this issue would be non-existant. I am wondering though, if anyone has had problem with this version, cause if not, I would rather use the newer version.

BTW, does anyone know what the new "features" are with kde 3.4 ?

I know how to install the new kde through apt-get. #debian-kde from irc.freenode.net has the line to add to sources.list to get it.

Thanx everyone for the help!
 
Old 06-24-2005, 01:31 PM   #2
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Re: Any one try KDE 3.4.1 ?

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Originally posted by epod69
If I mount a media through the desktop icon, I cant unmount without having to kill kdeinit.
I had a similar problem on KDE 3.2 with Slackware, although my problem arouse when ejecting the CD. What I did is add 3 lines to /opt/kde/bin/kdeeject:

Code:
    *)
      # added by pu the next 3 lines
      for p in `lsof -t $1` ;
        kill $p
      done
      # end added by pu
      eject $1 >/dev/null 2>&1
      ;;
In Sarge, the same file is at /usr/bin/kdeeject and looks similar, maybe you can give it a try.
 
Old 06-24-2005, 02:38 PM   #3
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I have run KDE 3.4.1, it runs fine for me. Don't use it now though, just tested it out.
 
Old 06-24-2005, 03:20 PM   #4
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Thanx for the info uselpa! ToastedToad, why shouldn't I use it now?
 
Old 06-24-2005, 11:50 PM   #5
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No, sorry, you mistook my meaning. I meant that "I" don't use it now, because I use gnome. It's is pretty sweet, there are still bugs but no show stoppers for me.

Sorry for the confusion.
 
Old 06-25-2005, 01:47 PM   #6
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I've been using it for several weeks now on this Debian Sid machine. I've also installed it on a couple of Sarge machines. It's fast (comparitively)! So fast that I even am able to run it on a 233/128 meg laptop and get reasonable performance out of it... I just make sure I've got a good book nearby if I fire up OpenOffice.org on that machine :oP

The only issue I had is that kaffeine (KDE front end to xine) likes to crash, I've since replaced it with xine-ui which works just fine.
 
Old 06-26-2005, 05:31 AM   #7
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i upgraded to kde 3.4.1 a week ago
deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./

and it works great until now

when you add the repository just type :
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

but when i did that it upgraded every kde package except 2 packages that required a certain program (i think it was called dbus-qt-1_0.23.4-3_i386.deb)

so i just downloaded and installed that package from
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux...ol/main/d/dbus/

and dist-upgraded again then it upgraded the last 2 packages
 
Old 06-26-2005, 02:25 PM   #8
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I've installed Sarge without X server and KDE and then instaled KDE 3.4.1 from that source (so I didn't upgrade 3.3.2 available with the distro). It wasn't quite a good idea, since I coudn't get the kdeedu and kdeedu-data packages to install. Also, that source lacks localization packages for KDE so in case you want to use non-english version of KDE (like me) you'll have to install older kde-i18n package (result - only partial localization).
 
  


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