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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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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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