kde 3.2 -> is it worth upgrading?

amos · 03-03-2004, 11:46 AM

I downloaded all the kde packages and qt from here:

ftp://ftp.man.olsztyn.pl/pub/linux/d...slackware/kde/

and the arts package from here:

ftp://ftp.man.olsztyn.pl/pub/linux/d...nt/slackware/l

saved them all into a convenient directory and ran:

upgradepkg *.tgz

from the command line.

That was it, no messing around with swaret. I took the precaution of changing to runlevel 3, but I'm told you could do it from inside kde whilst its running. It took me about a day to download the packages over a dial up line.

Should you upgrade?

Of course you should if only for the moment when you start it up and go: "Nice!"

Cheers
Amos

tr4nce · 03-03-2004, 12:28 PM

I really liked KDE3.2. Fast, clean, easy, configurable and stable.
If you are a KDE regular, download and give it a chance, if you are not a KDE fan, try it anyway, you won't get dissapointed ('m a fluxbox user and large wm never were devotes of my confidence, but with this new release seems to change my prefs

)

ferreter · 03-03-2004, 08:36 PM

KMcD, thanks for the config file, I only found one difference but it wasn't important. I actually had to manually update swaret and all of a sudden all the packages became availible to me.

I did the update and without a doubt kde runs MUCH faster.

Thanks all for the input

satanic_linux · 03-03-2004, 09:51 PM

I upgraded to 3.2 with out any probs at all, just make sure you upgrade qt as well and arts, no need to upgrade alsa as it still works fine,
One thing i have found with 3.2 is that it does crash more often on certian programs so be careful, but if you wanna stay uptodate then go ahead and upgrade

cxtech · 03-04-2004, 12:29 AM

I'm curious as to what programs people are having cause their KDE crashes as i've never had a single crash.

KMcD · 03-04-2004, 06:58 AM

I just managed to make KDE3.2 crash. I was running Kontact, a Konsole, Netscape, Kstars and KsCD. What I think made it crash was that I had just started to play an enhanced cd and KsCD didn't know what to do with the video files on the cd. Just a theory. Must try to reproduce this later.

guygriffiths · 03-04-2004, 07:03 AM

I've not made KDE 3.2 crash itself, but programs crash occasionally within it. Mozilla has just stopped 2 or 3 times recently. No warnings, no errors, it just disappears and has to be restarted.
Oh, and also I can get X to lock up completely by trying to run something that uses OpenGL, but that's another story...

ferreter · 03-04-2004, 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by guygriffiths
I've not made KDE 3.2 crash itself, but programs crash occasionally within it. Mozilla has just stopped 2 or 3 times recently. No warnings, no errors, it just disappears and has to be restarted.
Oh, and also I can get X to lock up completely by trying to run something that uses OpenGL, but that's another story...

I've had the mozilla issue before except with firebird...er..firefox I mean. So far that issue has not happened yet.

ferreter · 03-04-2004, 12:14 PM

One thing I'm noticing is that I don't have sound for events anymore. I did the upgrade of arts and alsa, assured that arts was enabled in the control panel, and made sure kmix was turned up. Note that CDs work just fine though. I'll tinker w/ it tonight, perhaps its just using the wrong drivers, alsa has caused kde to crash previously on me.

BTW, kopete is a really nice addition to kde