On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:35 pm, O'Smith wrote:
Hi All,
Well I have to say "me too" on this update as things just did not go well when using the SuSE supplied KDE files. First of all my kmail went blank and would not display any mails. Fixed that by going to the settings and selecting Use Custom fonts. Chose a font that looked good and displayed good, so all is well there. I did notice while playing with QT, going back to the previous version, that the font display is much better in the new version 3.1.2! It does a very good job of working with the fonts. Can't do sub-folders any longer with kmail as David pointed out, although not a big problem for me, so probably won't miss it.
Next little bug I ran into was Konqueror and displaying some sites. Can't display any of SuSE sites any longer as the text is just not there! Same problem with say http://www.cnnsi.com and http://packman.links2linux.de/, some graphics, some text, but mostly blank. What is that all about?
KDevelop is really kinda flakey right now too as Steven pointed out and complained about. Makes it difficult to do any programming with that now.
KWord gives sig11 when trying to do a print preview. Noatun won't play a mpeg movie clip. Some of these, while being bothersome, don't affect much in day to day operation, but others are proving to be a big PITA! (snip) Patrick =======================
Thanks to everyone that had a thought about this and alerted me to the fact they were having the problems also. I have solved, or I should say using Steven Hatton's suggestions, the problems I was having with all the new KDE 3.1.1 stuff. It seems that SuSE's QT3 & kdelibs3 files are bad and you must compile those two things from the src.rpm's to make things right with your system. You need to compile and install qt3 files first before doing the kdelibs3 files. I now have a working kde again, with no problems on any sites in Konq. I can print in all my KDE programs using kprinter as well, but you still need to choose Generic Unix as your facility rather than CUPS. Still a bug there somewhere with CUPS & KDE. It still uses CUPS to print, but you can't choose that in the kprinter dialog as it will Sig11 on you. If anyone wants more details etc., contact me off list and I will try to help out. I also got a bonus from all this as well, as I got Kontact installed and if you will notice from my sig below, I am using the latest KMail. Very nice what these KDE folk are doing! Oh, as I have been having trouble getting the kontact rpm to another user, the file is too large for a single email, is there someone that would allow me to upload the file, so that others could get the file to install? Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.9.1i --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...