--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
From: Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@bout-tyme.net>
On 02/23/2010 06:28 PM, Charles Obler pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Thank you for the help! That went beautifully. I now have susehelp, and a lot of other wonderful software. Now I'm ready for KDE 4.4, or even 4.5 if that is available.
The easiest way if you are comfortable at the command line is create a file under
/etc/zypp/repos.d/KDE_4.4_Factory_openSUSE_11.2.repo (or what ever you want to call it) and add the following:
[repo_KDE_4.4_Factory.2] name=repo KDE 4.4 Factory openSUSE_11.2 enabled=1 autorefresh=1 baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSU... path=/ type=rpm-md priority=75 keeppackages=0
Then another
zypper ref zypper dup
and you should be at KDE4.4.
Done! I now have KDE 4.4 -- plus 1.8G of additional software I installed last night, using Yast. I'm delighted with the other software. But I'm still not satisfied with KDE -- sorry! I don't like to complain, but I do think I have an obligation to report problems. They are not major problems, fortunately, but they do cause me to question KDE 4's stability and long-term viability, and make me wonder whether I would be better off using gnome. * screensaver: I get one step further, with KDE 4.4. I can now open the screensaver panel. Now the seg fault occurs when I actually try to select a screensaver module. * mouse: Still do not have the ability to paste highlighted text. And I've found no place where I can configure the two-button gesture. * desktop icons: Look a lot better in KDE 4. The huge clunky look is gone. But I still do not have a way to align them and size them uniformly. * taskbar panel icons: They are there, after all, in the middle of the big grey boxes, but they are just too small to see. I have my taskbar panel at the right edge of my wide screen -- that may be affecting the icon size. * favorites: When I added opera to my favorites panel, it displaced the application launcher. I cannot find a way to order the icons in this panel. * konsole menubar shortcut: I still miss the ability to access the menubar with a shortcut key. There is an entry in the configuration for SHOWING the bar -- in fact there are two entries -- but there is no entry for accessing it. * kdirstat help: "Could not find service khelpcenter" I've read the plasma book in the KDE help facility, but I am no closer to understanding the concept. It seems like KDE has added several unnecessary layers of abstraction. It seems like we can now create an entire hierarchy of desktops and panels. While trying to figure this out, I inadvertantly created a folder panel on top of my desktop and then a desktop on top of my "folder panel", with no indication that I was two levels down. One can get lost in this labyrinth. Pager already gives us two or four desktops: Why is that not sufficient? Ever hear of KISS?! If I want to switch to gnome, is that still possible at this point? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org