[Mageia-discuss] KDE update problems? Maybe?

[Max Quarterpleen]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:

> Hi Marc,
>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:22:53 -0400
> Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
>
> > I am just wondering if it is just me, but, ever since the KDE update,
>
> Which KDE update?
>
> > I had problems with my desktops and laptops (5 in total). I have had
> > to delete .kde4 (Home folder) on 4 of these boxes, and the last one
> > has not been updated yet (my son just finished his summer holidays
> > and was breaking in his Windows partition with his new install of
> > WOW);
>
> Just a note - NEVER (!!) delete ~/.kde4/ as this will lose all your
> settings.
> You can instead move it away using the "mv" command:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv
>
> I'm just mentioning it so people won't be encouraged to do so (and you
> shouldn't do
> so in the future).
>
> > now that summer vacation is over and WOW time is reduced, he
> > will have to update. I was hoping he would try playing WOW on his
> > Mageia partition.
> >
> > Has anyone else had any problems?
> >
> > Some of the problems that I have had:
> >
> > -- general slow down in speed
> > -- Klipper would disappear at login
> > -- the Lan connection Icon would disappear
> > -- some of the KDE preferences would somehow go back to their default
> > state
>

That happened to my wife's laptop.
The background image got reset to a default option, and the picture she had
originally set did not even appear as an option to change to. (Right click
options on the desktop).


> > -- log off widget in the taskbar (lower-right) would quit
> > responding
> > -- re-start option (Start button ...) would also stop
> > responding
> >
>
>
> I didn't encounter any of these problems either on Mageia 2 x86-64 or
> Mageia Cauldron
> x86-64. If you can reproduce them somehow, you can file bug reports on
> http://bugs.kde.org/ .
>
> Regards,
>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
> > The problems happened intermittently. The KDE bug assistant did come
> > up on one of my 2 laptops but I did not have sufficient information
> > to submit the bug report, just general stuff like above.
> >
> > I've deleted the .kde4 file and they all run fine now.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Marc
> >
> >
>
>
>
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