On Wed November 12 2008 3:48:28 am David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
Before I regret it, has anybody had any bad experience with an update to KDE 3.5.10. I seem to recall a week or so ago, there was a complaint about 3.5.10, but there was very little follow up. That leads me to believe all is safe. But getting older, I have learned to look before I leap. So anybody have any information on the update?
David, I recently did an upgrade on one of my systems in preparation for doing a similar upgrade on a customer's machine. I had the same question. In her case, she would be upgrading from 3.5.7 to 3.6.10. In my case from 3.6.9 to 3.5.10. For the most part, it went smoothly with the exception of the calander program, part of the PIM. Everything I tried after the upgrade seemed to work EXCEPT the calander/scheduler part of the PIM. That is part of the same program file as contains KMail, which I and my customer both use. KMail worked, the calendar did not. So, I upgraded her to 3.5.9 and regressed mine back to 3.5.9 and regained full functionality. Both systems were under 10.3, FWIW. I then upgraded my 10.3 machine to 11.0 and retried the upgrade to 3.6.10 and under 11.0, everything worked. So, I upgraded my customer to 11.0 as well and her 3.5.9 files were absorbed with NO problems. There are some MINOR problems with settings and preferences in KDE and I did have to reset minor cosmetic prefeerences, but functionally, I can recommend 3.5.10. FWIW, I also have a machine with the current KDE 4.1.3 on it as well as 3.5.10 (for testing and evaluation) and when I really need to get work done, I login with 3.5.10. When I want frustration and incompatibility with my existing KMail and other data, I use and try to appreciate KDE 4.1.3 (and higher as it is released). KDE4.x just isn't ready yet although it is getting better, it is too much like work trying to figure out how to make it do things (especially configuration issues) that are so intuitive in 3.5.10. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org