Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.6.x going stable?

[James Ausmus <james.ausmus@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Ask kde what's their timeline to release 4.6.1. Add 30 days. Not before
>>> then.
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK the release date for 4.6.1 is scheduled for March 1
>>
>>
>>
>
> I'll add this.  KDE 4.6 has shutdown/logout issues here.  If I have
> Kpatience or Konqueror open when I log out, it won't log out.  I have to go
> to a console, login, kill xdm, kill the leftover cruft from KDE, restart xdm
> and login.  There was a update to kdelibs that was supposed to fix this but
> I may need to re-emerge konqueror, Kpatience and friends for it to die
> cleanly.

Simple solution - just never shut down... ;)


>
> Right now, I would wait unless whatever is stable is causing you issues.
>  This would be a really good idea if someone that is not geeky is using the
> system.  They may not know how to kill everything or have the root password
> to kill it all.  If it is just you, you may not mind the extra steps.
>
> If you are interested, I can post back if re-emerging those fixes it or not.
>  I upgraded kdelibs but have not re-emerged the rest yet.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>