Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Good day Basil,
Onsdag 01 oktober 2003 08:46 kvad Basil Chupin:
Anyone still running this version[SNIP]
Yes.
...is Pysol (cardgame suite) still working correctly[?][SNIP]
I never installed Pysol, so I can't help on this one.
...do you still have Freecell (cardgame) showing (and playable) in Games/Card menu?
Freecell is not there. I _think_ it's supposed to be in the KDEGames package, but it seems it's not in the package for KDE 3.1.3.
Eh, I must be getting old.... :-(. The Freecell that I love to play is found in Gnome-Games2 and not in KDE. Why can't it be placed in KDE?) There is a version of Freecell as part of the PySol suite, but I am not too enthusiastic about it. I prefer the Gnome version. Anyway, I found all this out by going to my wife's computer and "firing up" Freecell there. I have now installed Gnome-Games2 on my pooter and Freecell lives again in my room :-).
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...Pysol stopped working (it disappears off the screen if you move the cursor into the toolbar area).
That may be because the mouse events in the tool bar makes it crash. Have you tried starting it from a teminal and see if there is any error output when it disapears?
Are you sure you have the new python libraries installed?
Did you download the needed parts of the yast-source directory and used YaST to update? If not, how did you do you upgrade?
I logon to the Net several times a day and everytine I use YOU to check for new updates. Earlier this afternoon when I installed PySol the first logon produced some updates to dependencies associated with PySol - but this did not stop it from failing as I described in my original message. However, I did what you suggested and ran it in terminal mode and lo and behold it worked! When I then ran it from the Desktop it worked (works) perfectly. Such is the vast well of life's little musteries. But what I suspect may have happened is that I did not reboot after the updates to the dependencies were done earlier and this is why PySol behaved as it did. I rebooted a few times (I dual-boot) between sending my message and your response and this probably fixed the problem. At least this is my story and I am sticking to it.
Also, anyone know what happened to (or where it went) the Menu editor? you know the one where you could select different icons for applications etc. It used to be in the Start Applications/System/Configuration (I think) area.
I can't find it anywhere in the Start Applications button, but it's still in the context menu that pops up when I right click the Start Applications button.
Ah, so that's where the blighter is hiding. Thanks for that. (Goes to show you that I haven't altered anything in the Menus since v8.1 :-).)
KDE: 2 steps forward, 1 step back.... :-(.
Hmm... I don't think I will attempt an upgrade just yet. :o(
No, No, all is fine and go ahead and update. Just because I made these simple boo-boos doesn't mean that KDE is broken. In fact, there are some improvements so go ahead and update. How did I update KDE (you ask above)? I downloaded all the RPMs in the Base, Development, and Applications sub-directories from the SuSE ftp site (or use a mirror), placed them all into a common directory and ran rpm -Fvh *rpm as root while in that directory. There will be one rpm which will give you "trouble" (something called libwm....) but you use Konqueror to install it separately; this will come up with an error which you ignore - ie, accept the option which indicates that you may jeopardise your system if you ignore the warning - because it will not do any damage (this error will come up twice - so ignore it twice). Then go back and run the rpm -Fvh *.rpm again, and you will end up with an updated KDE. Just don't forget to run SuSEconfig at the end of the update! If you then go to the SuSE site and click on Home User/Downloads/KDE you will find any latest updates to KDE. Download them (if there are any) and apply them as above.
Best regards :o)
Johnny :o)
Cheers. -- If logic ruled the World, men would ride side-saddle.