On Saturday 05 February 2011 01:08:02 C wrote:
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 23:56, Stan Goodman wrote:
10 Import any GPG keys when asked.
This is a new thing. It will give me keys, and I only need to d/l them? What is it that needs to be encrypted?
If you've added any additional supported repositories to YaST/zypper in the past several openSUSE releases (eg Community repos), you will have had to import the GPG keys. YaST handles the import process... you only need to click Yes to accept them, or No if you don't trust them. It's pretty safe to trust the keys in this case.
I haven't added repos, so there shouldn't be keys. There are no "past releases", because I always install the OS on a clean partition.
The install should complete without any issues (assuming you're still starting from a clean 11.3 install),. I've tested the steps above this evening on a clean 11.3 install, upgrading the default KDE4.4.4 to KDE 4.6.0 and there were no issues.
Clean now? It was installed on new partitions; there have been automatic updates from the default repos. I've installed a few KDE apps. I guess it's relatively clean.
I'd still call that "clean". An upgrade starts to get messy if you've added lots of extra repos, upgraded several times, added 3rdparty RPMs etc.
I have yet to use activities.
I just haven't got around it them (or a lot of other things).
Take a look at these two blog entries: http://hanschen.org/2011/02/04/activities-a-change-in-workflow/ http://yuenhoe.co.cc/blog/2011/01/the-rise-of-plasma-activities-and-wha t-it-can-do-for-you/
Activities may not be for everyone (just like multiple desktops are not for everyone) but as the concept matures, they are becoming much more useful.
I have been using multiple desktops all along (since v10.3), and they have made it much easier to keep several things going at one time (and amazed my Windows friends as well). If I understand correctly, it will take activities to make it possible for me to assign a different wallpaper image to each desktop (as I had with KDE3), and that would be the most likely motive for me to adopt activities, at least initially. -----[Time out for glancing at the two blogs and bookmarking them to read -----later in the day.] But I can see from the glancing that activities have may have become more useful than they were. I'll read these thoroughly. Thanks.
C.
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