On Friday 06 February 2004 1:34 am, Craig Ambrose wrote:
I've got one thing to add to this 3.2 thread. If you haven't already grabbed it, do it now! My install went off without any trouble (SuSE 9.0, using the supplementary KDE3.2 rpm's from ftp.suse.com).
My experience has been quite the opposite. Installing KDE 3.2 has been a disaster for me. I'm pretty sure that I now have the latest packages for it after adventuring through Yast, apt4suse, and Red Carpet in order to get them. 1. Something happened in the installation that has killed my sound, even when KDE isn't active. It was always the case before this that I could solve sound problems by running alsaconf. Now when I run alsaconf, it hangs up while trying to play its sample sound -- even if I start my system in state 3 so that KDE hasn't gotten going yet. I've been working for two days on trying to get the sound back, with no success. 2. Konqueror displays many web pages in a tiny, almost unreadable font. Konqueror also simply freezes on a number of web pages (others have reported that also). 3. Sometimes when I log out from a session the system hangs up with a black screen just showing a cursor. Fortunately I can get out of it and back to kdm with Ctl-Alt-Backspace (which kills the X server). 4. Some icons that I used and liked in KDE 3.1.4 have disappeared, notably the one for Gaim and for Yast2. These were in the standard collection of application icons. 5. Konqueror now does spellchecking, which highlights what it thinks are misspelled words in cgi text, and there's no way I can find to turn it off. So to anyone who's considering the switch, be forewarned: you're taking a big risk. Some have succeeded; I'm one of the poor unfortunates who did not. Paul Abrahams