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[gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

[Uwe Thiem]

Hi folks,

About KDE 4.0.0.

I have formerly reported that konsole would crash on startup and kamil would 
not start at all. It's all solved by now.

The problem with konsole was all my fault. I crated the test user for KDE4 
without a shell. ;-( Dunno, how this could have happened but it did. I gave 
the user a shell, and konsole was happy afterwards.

Did an "emerge --update --deep --newuse world" after adding a couple of USE 
flags. This resulted in 309 packages to be emerged. A revdep-rebuild 
afterwards wanted to re-emerge another 9 packages. Did that, too. Now, kmail 
will start from krunner without a problem (and without using kontact). 

So the stumbling blocks for using KDE 4.0.0 as my default desktop have 
disappeared. Unfortunately, I won't have much time tomorrow. So over Friday 
and the weekend, I will try to make KDE4 my default desktop after backing up 
all stuff like ~/.kde*.

This new desktop looks extremely interesting even without all the 
functionality of KDE 3.5.x.

Finally, I am there!

Uwe

PS: It's impressive even with my shitty video sub-system that does not allow 
for composite.

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:27:38 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> So the stumbling blocks for using KDE 4.0.0 as my default desktop have 
> disappeared. Unfortunately, I won't have much time tomorrow. So over
> Friday and the weekend, I will try to make KDE4 my default desktop
> after backing up all stuff like ~/.kde*.

You shouldn't need to do that. I found when I went back to KDE 3.5
(because Claws Mail wasn't working) that it reset the .kde symlink to
point to .kde3.5 again.


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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:27:38 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > So the stumbling blocks for using KDE 4.0.0 as my default desktop
> > have disappeared. Unfortunately, I won't have much time tomorrow.
> > So over Friday and the weekend, I will try to make KDE4 my default
> > desktop after backing up all stuff like ~/.kde*.
>
> You shouldn't need to do that. I found when I went back to KDE 3.5
> (because Claws Mail wasn't working) that it reset the .kde symlink to
> point to .kde3.5 again.

<tongue-in-cheek>

Neil, you just did a bad bad bad thing.

You used the "should" word and trusted it. Tut, tut. Bad boy.

Surely I don't have to give you the "this is how software works" speech, 
right?

:-)

</tongue-in-cheek>

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:34:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > You shouldn't need to do that. I found when I went back to KDE 3.5
> > (because Claws Mail wasn't working) that it reset the .kde symlink to
> > point to .kde3.5 again.  
> 
> <tongue-in-cheek>
> 
> Neil, you just did a bad bad bad thing.
> 
> You used the "should" word and trusted it. Tut, tut. Bad boy.

I used the word, but it's up to the reader how much they trust it. I'm
just using it as a potential get-out clause ;-)


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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:34:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>   
>>> You shouldn't need to do that. I found when I went back to KDE 3.5
>>> (because Claws Mail wasn't working) that it reset the .kde symlink to
>>> point to .kde3.5 again.  
>>>       
>> <tongue-in-cheek>
>>
>> Neil, you just did a bad bad bad thing.
>>
>> You used the "should" word and trusted it. Tut, tut. Bad boy.
>>     
>
> I used the word, but it's up to the reader how much they trust it. I'm
> just using it as a potential get-out clause ;-)
>
>
>   

Well, mine created a .kde4.0 directory too so it *should* work for the
rest of us.  Used my get out of jail card too.  :-p 

Oh, my slide show doesn't work right with 4.0 so I'm sticking with 3.5. 
Just going to wait a while longer yet.   ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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