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From: Michael W Cocke
Did you install the kde updates? I'm really curious now - I've seen nothing like what you describe on any of the 9.1 or 9.2 systems I have here. My 8 year old son is still dependent on the menus, so I have to do a fair bit of tweaking there - no problems with the menu editor. My wife uses the stock menus, mostly - and plays pretty much all of the games that ship with the distro - no problems there, either. I beat up gcc, Perl, and most of the networking stuff on the systems in my office, and aside from something funny with NFS on Netgear gigabit cards that I've hit in 9.2 and not in 9.1 (it isn't as fast as it should be, but it does work - and I have NO clue what the problem is, I'm still looking, it may even be a filesystem/LVM issue.), all of that all works fine.
Oh yes, if you try to play an MP3 file in audacity and you're configured to use alsa, the system will lock - hard - as soon as you hit the play button. Hit the reset button kind of hard. That's why I keep griping about the sound support. But seriously, that's the only way I know to really mess up 9.2.
Something must have caused your problems, but if you did a clean install I don't see what it could be. ------- End of Original Message -------
I hope this is better. I'm really not into interspersing. Okay, I did 2 fresh, clean installs. I don't have it installed now, so I'm going on memory. Two items on the Games menu, one was the Chess game the other some other game were suppose to be in submenus. The submenu titles were there, but they didn't open to a submenu containing Chess nor the other game in it's respective menu. Rather, they both opened the games right from the subitem title. So, one would logically go to the KDE Menu Editor to fix this. However, editing the item in the editor did nothing once saved. Problem persisted. This, again, was a stock install. I believe I even did a YaST update after intall (stock update, nothing fancy). This is why I think there are two issues here: 1) no decent QA was done; 2) there's an obvious problem with KDE's Menu Editor. I've seen the editor screw up in the past. I've gone in and tried to remove items, for instance, on my kids' menus only to have items I "delete" show up under "Applications." They have to be deleted again from there too in order to get them to go away. This is just QA laziness. The editor may be KDE's fault, so take that for what it's worth. My other peeve is having to ditch my LCD monitor for a CRT because somewhere between 9.0 and 9.2 it wouldn't use it. It was on the "list" in the config, though. The issue there was that it wouldn't let me force 70Hz in the refresh. Even within Control Panel, where I typically have success. I think, however, this was a problem in the new 2.6.x Kernel as I duplicated this (to some extent) in another distro running that kernel. So I don't know that I can fault SuSE for that one. :) -- <<JAV>>