[opensuse-factory] Beta 2 comments
Here are my initial findings. 1) PS2 mouse doesn't get detected on this box. Same thing happened with Ubuntu I am guessing it is a kernel or X issue. 2) Mouse is way to happy (fast). I can slow it down but settings are not sticking through a reboot. Also, if I slow it down and then re-login the mouse is to fast until I reach the KDE 4 screen again. 3) I am reluctant to use KDE 4 when we go live for my desktop machine for obvious reasons. One thing that could change my mind is if SUSE would make it easy for me to update to 4.1 should it come out prior to the next release. However, with limitations in apps that are available for KDE 4 (Why did they not make it backward compatible?) I'll probably wait. 4) No d/l for the Nvidia accelerated drivers that I can find via a search in YaST software. 5) When I resize my screen via YaST the settings are not holding through a reboot. 6) In sniffing at Ubuntu I found that loading an early version was pleasing as they kept me moving forward through synaptics updater. It was easy and I stayed current all they way through the final release with my testing without having to do a reload. Cheers, Bob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 05 May 2008, Robert Lewis wrote:
However, with limitations in apps that are available for KDE 4 (Why did they not make it backward compatible?) I'll probably wait.
1) Qt 4.x is not backward compatible with Qt 3.x 2) The API was redesigned to fix long standing issue that could not be solved in binary compatible way and many new things were introduced or dropped (because they are not in Qt) But the KDE team tried to make it possible and easy to run KDE3 applications under KDE4 just because of the reason you wrote. Andras -- Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.kdewebdev.org K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org
Mandag den 5. Maj 2008 18:58:51 skrev Robert Lewis:
3) I am reluctant to use KDE 4 when we go live for my desktop machine for obvious reasons. One thing that could change my mind is if SUSE would make it easy for me to update to 4.1 should it come out prior to the next release.
KDE 4.1 will become available for easy upgrade using openSUSE build service repositories upon it's release which is planned for late July. KDE 4.1 (svn) packages have already been available for a long time. Of course these packages won't be officially supported. But they'll be built by the great openSUSE KDE team, and are usually pretty stable. I'm pretty sure that KDEPIM which will be beta in 11.0, will be officially updated to the final version. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
2008/5/5 Robert Lewis <bob.l.lewis@gmail.com>:
Here are my initial findings.
Thanks for testing and reporting!
1) PS2 mouse doesn't get detected on this box. Same thing happened with Ubuntu I am guessing it is a kernel or X issue.
Please file a bug report about this as described on bugs.opensuse.org.
3) I am reluctant to use KDE 4 when we go live for my desktop machine for obvious reasons. One thing that could change my mind is if SUSE would make it easy for me to update to 4.1 should it come out prior to the next release.
Yes, as has always been the case (and as mentioned above) -- the latest version of KDE4 is available in the build service. You'll be able to upgrade with 1-click-install! :)
4) No d/l for the Nvidia accelerated drivers that I can find via a search in YaST software.
NVIDIA RPM packages aren't available for development versions unfortunately, but they will be for the final version. To install it you will just have to click on the 1-click-install over at http://opensuse.org/NVIDIA (which will appear there when final is released).
6) In sniffing at Ubuntu I found that loading an early version was pleasing as they kept me moving forward through synaptics updater. It was easy and I stayed current all they way through the final release with my testing without having to do a reload.
If you're just upgrading factory, you might want to install the yast2-update-FACTORY package, which is a YaST module for upgrading to the latest version of factory. AFAIK we don't have a YaST module to upgrade, online, to the current version, which I agree is unfortunate. Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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