Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:24:38 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson Message-ID: <20001118122437.A1197@buffy.local> Subject: Re: [SLE] kde2 /kde1and kdm I agree. This enthusiasm to just delete KDE1 is a little naive. Firstly KDE2 does not plug in and replace KDE1 as it is not yet configured properly bu SuSE to do so. Witness all the questions in this list about KDM. Secondly KDE2 is at version 0, with all that that implies. Newbies note! Oldies are always cautious of software at version 0 ! Thirdly KDE2 does not replace all of the KDE1 apps, do an app find or whatever it is called in the kde options and you will see all those old kde1 apps that have not yet been replaced. Hold onto kde1 for a while friends. Cliff <p>On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:38:47AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:

Ezequiel Quintana Morales wrote:

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I deleted kde1 and kdm is not longer a login option using yast1. The only possible option is using xdm. I don't know why.

I have SuSE 7.0, XFree 4.0.1 and kde 2.0

Ezequiel

That was pretty brave of you. Do you really think KDE2 is ready to REPLACE kde1? Anyway I'm not sure about 7.0 but you could try reinstalling KDE2. The deinstall of KDE1 may have removed some important config stuff if you used Yast. Did ya use yast to delete kde1? It may have been better to just "rm -r /opt/kde".

I'm not sure if SuSe has set up their KDE2 config stuff as nice as they have for KDE1 yet so I don't know how easy it will be to run only KDE2.

May you'll get more help from others that have done it. Personally I'd keep kde1 installed and just play with KDE2 untill it's a little more mature.

-- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com

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Message-ID: <3A18F216.E7931142@iiq.cartuja.csic.es> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:42:46 +0100 From: Ezequiel Quintana Morales Subject: Re: [SLE] kde2 /kde1 and kdm I'm sorry to miss all the discussion but weekends are just for my wife and my daughter. I use linux for work in a oglx environment. I mostly run chemistry programs in a SGI and use my linux box as a terminal or exchange results using programs which needs oglx running fine. I also need HD space because I easily get 1 GB files. Kde2 is much better than Kde1 for that purpose and more stable. The only problem I can see in the upgrade is starting linux with xdm which is not too bad (I've been using it since '94 when I installed my first slackware linux). However, looking at the /opt/kde2/bin directory there is a kdm binary which you can manage to run at boot manually modifying the files at /sbin/init.d and others. The only thing I was stating was a feature you loose when you delete kde1 using yast1 and even upgrading to kde2 using the SuSE provided script. I was also answering a guy (Landy Roman (Thu Nov 16 2000 - 05:17:16 PST)), who ask to the list about the convenience to delete kde1. Ezequiel Jerry Kreps wrote:

True, QCad, for example, looses its fonts under KDE2 and the button, menus, labels, and any other place where you'd expect text to be, are blank!

On Saturday 18 November 2000 05:24, Cliff Sarginson wrote:

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I agree. This enthusiasm to just delete KDE1 is a little naive. Firstly KDE2 does not plug in and replace KDE1 as it is not yet configured properly bu SuSE to do so. Witness all the questions in this list about KDM. Secondly KDE2 is at version 0, with all that that implies. Newbies note! Oldies are always cautious of software at version 0 ! Thirdly KDE2 does not replace all of the KDE1 apps, do an app find or whatever it is called in the kde options and you will see all those old kde1 apps that have not yet been replaced.

Hold onto kde1 for a while friends.

Cliff

On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:38:47AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:

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Ezequiel Quintana Morales wrote:

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I deleted kde1 and kdm is not longer a login option using yast1. The only possible option is using xdm. I don't know why.

I have SuSE 7.0, XFree 4.0.1 and kde 2.0

Ezequiel

That was pretty brave of you. Do you really think KDE2 is ready to REPLACE kde1? Anyway I'm not sure about 7.0 but you could try reinstalling KDE2. The deinstall of KDE1 may have removed some important config stuff if you used Yast. Did ya use yast to delete kde1? It may have been better to just "rm -r /opt/kde".

I'm not sure if SuSe has set up their KDE2 config stuff as nice as they have for KDE1 yet so I don't know how easy it will be to run only KDE2.

May you'll get more help from others that have done it. Personally I'd keep kde1 installed and just play with KDE2 untill it's a little more mature.

-- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com

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From: Jerry Kreps Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 09:50:28 -0600 Message-Id: <00111809502801.16818@JLKreps> Subject: Re: [SLE] kde2 /kde1and kdm On Saturday 18 November 2000 06:39, Landy Roman wrote:

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if you used Yast. Did ya use yast to delete kde1? It may have been better to just "rm -r /opt/kde".

how true is this advice

And then, as root, use 'rpm --rebuilddb" to rebuild your rpm database