Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Dienstag, 13. September 2011, 10:28:16 schrieb Ismail Donmez:
this morning (about 6:00 GMT) I updated from KDE:Release:47. From then on, I could not invoke kate (from KDE4; KDE3's kate was working).
Please use KDE:Distro:Factory, its stable and serving KDE 4.7.1 now.
AFAIR the purpose of KRx was serve users who do not want to act as testing users. There are several reasons for this. Among them that KDF will become unstable at some point and users will be forced to change their repos again which they do not have to do when using KRx.
Actually I have had better luck with K:D:F overall, than the few times I did change to KR:x. Mostly my interest in KR:x arises at time(s) when K:D:F is about to undergo a major version upheaval and I want to keep my system stable until it shakes out.
Users of KDF have to follow the news/wiki in order to know what's in KDF and when it changes which most of them do not want to do and do not have to do when using KRx because the name states the content – unlike KDF.
[snip] Absolutely, it must be noted that K:D:F is a shifting work in progress and _will_ change. It is incumbent upon the user to both recognize it is not officially supported as necessarily stable for day-to-day use. If you want to use K:D:F you will want to keep up with what's going on in the active development. This can also include eavesdropping [lurking] on IRC. Case in point was the recent 'black screen' problem. I saw the devs knew about it and were on it. So instead of just blindly updating I chose to wait a bit. A few days later it was ready, I updated, and all was well. Well, except the default changed to systemd startup. I could get sound from the sound test in Yast, but no sound in KDE (all 3 backends). Rebooted, used the F5 option to choose System V startup and everything was back to normal. Bottom line it is a good idea for users to keep themselves informed. -Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org