John E. Perry wrote:
After finding some version mismatches in my 10.3 installation, and not having heard any reasonable-sounding complaints against kde 4.1 recently, I upgraded to 11.1 with kde 4.1.3 a couple of weeks ago.
So, I'm regretting having tried to fix things, now. No one responded to this plea (sent on 7/11), and I've been reading from many that 4.2 solved some of the problems with 4.1. So I did the 1-click install thing and clicked on all the dependency resolutions using the vendor change thing. I now have 11.1 running with kde 4.2.4. Things looked really good for a few hours. Then during some of the dozens or hundreds of updates, the kde desktops turned dark gray and wifi stopped working again. Now nothing I do will get me wifi, and I can't even read the many messages I see popping up, because they show up as black on a dark gray background. I was able to get the taskbar more or less readable by switching from the aya theme back to the oxygen theme (why did it change?), but that only worked for applications -- system messages (I suppose that's what they are) still pop up as black on dark gray, and I just have time to dope out things like "kdeupdater" and "knetworkmanager" in the title bar before it disappears. Message text, as far as I can see, is completely invisible. I've found nothing that lets me change the color of the desktop background, or (most urgently) the taskbar color scheme and the system message dialog boxes. The taskbar is fairly readable now, and stays long enough for me to make it out, but the message boxes are too dim and short-lived for me to make anything out. Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling 10.3 from scratch? John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org