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Dead Code wrote:Cosmin wrote:What would you suggest?
You wont feel any difference. The only thing you get with KDEmod is the modular approach.
good reading / info:
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 10022.html
(too bad the discussion seems to have died, imho kdemod as arch official kde would rock)
Yeah right....
After sometime we can have their installer also as the official installer..........
A few months later people will cry and we will have shaman as the official package manager.........
Then we can try for a stable version......Every six months or so......with a little automagic for drivers and stuff....
Arch would definitely rock........
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Mikko777 wrote:Dead Code wrote:You wont feel any difference. The only thing you get with KDEmod is the modular approach.
good reading / info:
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 10022.html
(too bad the discussion seems to have died, imho kdemod as arch official kde would rock)
Yeah right....
After sometime we can have their installer also as the official installer..........
A few months later people will cry and we will have shaman as the official package manager.........
Then we can try for a stable version......Every six months or so......with a little automagic for drivers and stuff....
Arch would definitely rock........
huh? say what now?
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I would like to thank all the dev's for their hard work on getting KDE 4.2 ready and into extra, I was one of the one's who used it from testing and I'll tell ya, this is the best yet!
Somewhere, just out of sight, the Penguins are gathering!
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Big thanks to everyone who helped make this release possible. I've tried KDE 4 on all the other distros and Arch is the only one who gets it right IMO. 4.2 is fantastic!
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arch is arch (simply)
and kde 4.2 is awesome
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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Pierre wrote:Sorry guyes, I forgot to move kdebindings (its not in the kde group). But it should be fixed on your mirror soon.
@zyghom: Never use -d! Run testdb to check what you have broken.
testdb shows no output at all
pacman -d helped and did not brake anything
just instead of 31 I got only 22 packages to install
later I added the rest manually
and all is OK now
I don't think -d helped anything, it only broke something since it did not install all packages. Fortunately, you noticed that yourself and installed the 9 missing dependencies. Otherwise, testdb would have helped you to find them.
However, what you had was a file conflict between 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings', which you can only work around using -f. This flag is not really recommended either, but if you use it only on one package (for example kdebase-workspace in this case) and if you know what you are doing, it should be ok.
This specific issue should be solved now, so I am only commenting to explain pacman behavior and usage.
pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))
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The release announcement recommends that we "backup your ~/.kde4 configuration dir and start with a clean config." I assume this means delete ~/.kde4 after backing it up pre-upgrade.
Is anything else required to get a "clean config" after having used KDE 4.1.3 (and having upgraded to it from KDE 3 without deleting ~/.kde or anything else)? Should I delete any other directories or uninstall any programs first?
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I backed up .kde4 but honestly speaking upgrade did not destroy ANYTHING
Zygfryd Homonto
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Well I just installed it, compared to 4.1 it really has improved a lot.
A few minor panel redraw issues.
Still redrawing of everything seems slow and sort of unresponsive, but thats probably a feat of Nvidia's proprietary blob, I hope they get it together soon
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Did a fresh install with ext4 and the KDE4.2 and couldn't be happier. Though still not quite feature complete (networkmanager plasmoid, kdevelop?) this release is a huge step foward in usability.
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Im having a problem with gwenview, it cannot display images (it says "loading meta information failed"). I asked on the KDE irc channel and they said its most likely a missing library. I checked on the website and it said that gwenview needs exiv2 and KIPI.
Checking the repos though, there is only a KIPI version for kde3 and not kde4
Apart from that it works fine
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digikam is still for kde 3.5 in repo
Zygfryd Homonto
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Regarding the Arch releases KDE 4.2 before KDE does, all distribution packagers get KDE releases before they are announced to public.
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My i686 install is completely borked on kde 4.2. kwin keeps crashing, nothing loads. I get a wallpaper and no options but to ctrl-alt-backspace back to kdm. xf86_64 was as smooth as you like.
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I just installed 4.2 (Arch version, the KDEmod version was majorly screwed up for me. Plasma constantly crashed. No problems whatsoever now). It's great, bye bye Openbox, at least for now
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