On Tuesday 17 February 2009 15:24:02 jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
> Don't install the full KDE4.x tho, just individual packages. If you install
> the desktop for KDE4.x that takes over your KDE3.5 desktop so that doesn't
> work,as it did before you made that 4.x install . Even thought they are
> supposed to work independently, on my boxen it has proved not to do so
> Even leaving me w/ a basically unusable 3.5 desktop.

If this happens it is a packaging bug, which we are here to fix. Please don't suggest people workaround or ignore these issues - tell us about it and we'll get it fixed. Putting up and shutting up just lets the distro bitrot.

> For instance KScreensaver disappeared, and tho the files are on the disk,
> they only show in the 4.x desktop. I even reinstalled the packages for
> KDE3.5 but they still do not appear, even tho the daemon is still running.
> I can do email(Kmail) listen to music w/ xmms ( sometimes it's "ify") and
> sometimes but not always web surf w/ Firefox and or Konqi .

Is this https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447903 ?

Your other issues are hard to pin down, but I wonder if PulseAudio on 11.1 is a factor in your multimedia problems? Can you be more specific about your web surfing problems?

Will