* Carl William Spitzer IV (Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:59:10PM -0700)

One question is how much memory is demanded. I have a 8meg card on a PII 350.

The amount of videomemory does not enter into it. Recommened is at least 128M of normal RAM, but I have had it running on an old laptop w/ 64M of ram , but it is ssllooww

CWSIV

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:54:04 -0500 "Steve Kratz" writes:

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Hi,

KDE 3.3 final has been released and there are already SuSE 9.1 RPMs available on the German SuSE servers:

FTP Host: ftp.gwdg.de Dir:

/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.1/

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Add "yast-source" to the end to configure a new YaST installation

source

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that will make the 3.3 updates installable through the YaST Install & Remove module.

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I'm also planning on trying it soon. However, I'm waiting to here from a few more vict^M^M^M^M volunteers, before I do. I'll also be doing a backup first. ;-)

One thing to make note of after upgrading - there's a thread in here somewhere that refers to a change in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals - in the [DesktopIcons] section, comment out the "GridXSpacing" option, and add DesktopGridSpacing=60,10 - That prevents the "4 rows of icons" spacing problem (15 inch screen, 4 inches of space between icons)

Richard, On Thursday 19 August 2004 14:34, C. Richard Matson wrote:

On Thursday 19 August 2004 9:32 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Now, I did this same thing with KDE 3.2.3 and am happy I did. Yet it always fills me with trepidation when I press that "Accept" button... Will it be all the great new stuff and few or no problems, or am I about to experience a world of hurt?

Me too. So what are you waiting for? If it crashes just try again:-}

Ah. He thinks he's funny... So I did. I leaped with nary a glance at what's below! There were no incidents during the installation. For "good measure" (a.k.a. superstition) I rebooted. When I logged in and launched KMail, I was disturbed to see the folder display empty, even though I heard the sounds that signified mail (and implied that my filters were OK). The tray icon for KMail including the count of unread messages was also present and indicated new mail had arrived. However, no command that involved folders or their contents would work (e.g., CTRL-+ would not show me the first unread message in the next folder with unread messages). I quit and re-launched ... The same. So then I decided to poke around in the KMail configuration files. Nothing jumped out so I went over to KNode to see if anybody reported any similar symptom there, but there was nothing I could see. Then I launched KMail again (Why? Why not!). Well, as they say, "the third time's the charm." Now things are apparently fine. Other than the KMail scare, so far everything is basically OK. I'm noticing some changes in the iconography. KNode has a quick search bar (just as KMail 1.7 does, now), which is a very nice addition. I've noticed that in KNode (and I think KMail, too), toolbar modifications have been discarded and default toolbars restored. I am seeing the desktop grid issue, but I'll fix that up. The order of taskbar tabs seems to have changed, but perhaps that's an option I can change. It's arbitrary, but I come to expect certain things in certain places, since I have fixed virtual desktops for certain applications that I have running at all times or nearly all times. (Don't tell anyone, but I'm really glad to have styled text generation for outgoing messages. Don't worry, I won't attempt to send anything but plain text mail here... But personally, I occasionally find font variations and colors to be helpful for communicating in writing.)

-- C. Richard Matson

"So far, so good." "Onward and upward." yada, etc., so forth. Randall Schulz

Anyone tried using this update for 9.0?

With the latest update, the widget style falls back to the default Keramik. Eventhough libplastik* is clearly installed (part of kdeartwork3-3.3.0-3), it's not displayed in the selection. -- NEU: Bis zu 10 GB Speicher f�r e-mails & Dateien! 1 GB bereits bei GMX FreeMail http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail

Peter, On Thursday 19 August 2004 23:52, peter Nikolic wrote:

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Open a terminal wget -c -r ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/ suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.1

end kde session goto text mode init 3

then into the dirs rpm -vUh *rpm

init 5 restart kde session login

This is going to retrieve a lot of files most people don't need. Even if you install all packages that are part of these supplement, you'll get source packages and lots of language packs. What's more, you're ignoring all the helpful processing that is performed by using YaST to install and / or upgrade. Also, I believe that RPMs installed outside YaST will appear to YaST to be "locked" and henceforth off-limits to YaST update. I'm not entirely sure about this, but I know that all the RPMs that I've installed manually show up in the YaST Installer and in YOU with a padlock icon ("Protected -- Do Not Modify".

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Randall Schulz