KDE 4.6 new impressions

[molostoff]

Smoother, faster, no problems I have met during update. Good.

[67GTA]

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Just got done updating, and everything is fine here except the gtk apps theme. I even deleted .kde dir, and .gtkrc-2.0-kde4 with no change. I suspect it has something to do with an old config file somewhere because they mucked with the gtk theme integration. I've tried using qtcurve and oxygen-molecule.

[slither]

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I like it so far. Had one plasma crash, but overall impression is good.

[lykwydchykyn]

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Just got done updating, and breakage everywhere. All my python plasmoids are broken, and kwin is locking up periodically. Aw well, it's an adventure.

[67GTA]

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Spoke too soon. The printer module is broken, and the screensaver goes black after a few minutes. I think I'm going to roll it back and play with it in vmware for a while.

[Rigmarole]

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The only problem I've had was with Plasma Workspace crashing whenever I logged out, but after starting with an empty session that seems to have stopped. The new notifications look nice. Composite Kwin is finally usable, though I have to use the Xrender option which disables the blur effect.

[sblass]

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Smoother, faster, no problems I have met during update. Good.

Smoother, faster appears to be the case here, also.

Immediately after upgrade, everything was seemingly okay, but then noted I had no Amarok and Muon seemed broken. Additionally I had no wi-fi. Tried to do the Ctrl-Alt-BS to relog into KDE, but that froze.

Rebooted with wired connection. Used KPackageKit to reinstall KNetworkManager, Amarok, and Muon. Rebooted in wi-fi, and everything seems okay now - just MUCH crisper and zippier!

Wow: KDE SC 4.6 and LibreOffice 3.3 in a two day span. Life is good!

[67GTA]

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When I upgraded, I figured it would be better to start with an empty .kde dir. Once I replaced it with the old one from 4.5, everything works fine. The gtk apps even themed correctly. That is weird. After reinstalling "printer-applet" from 4.5, the kcm printer module works again. No problems here now.

[Mountain Man]

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The only problem I've had was with Plasma Workspace crashing whenever I logged out, but after starting with an empty session that seems to have stopped.

That's been my experience as well, so thanks for the "empty session" tip.

For anybody else, go to System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Session Management, then under On Login select "Start with an empty session". Logout and then log back in, and you should be able to set it back to "Restore previous session". Remember to restart your persistent apps like Amarok or Ktorrent.

Other than that, I'm really liking 4.6. Noticeably faster and smoother than 4.5.x.

[The Liquidator]

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Just got done updating, and breakage everywhere. All my python plasmoids are broken, and kwin is locking up periodically. Aw well, it's an adventure.

I got the plasmoid issue (the gmail plasmoid to be precise).

The kde upgrade seems to have been released in 3 tranches. An update to python-kde4 did not appear to arrive until the 2nd tranche. Some of us (myself included) were too eager methinks! So do another sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and my thoughts are the plasmoids will return to their former glory.

I've had a couple of crashes on shutdown and one or 2 video oddities. When I get back I'll try the "empty session" remedy referred to elsewher in this thread and I suggest you do too.

[wizard10000]

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I've got a small kdm glitch but only on the 64-bit machine. Think I have a solution but have to be home to test it. I spent some time talking to myself in the thread here -

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3115425.0

[molostoff]

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Spoke too soon. The printer module is broken, and the screensaver goes black after a few minutes. I think I'm going to roll it back and play with it in vmware for a while.

today Ive got 'catching up' last part of updates, printer module now working again.

[Mountain Man]

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That's been my experience as well, so thanks for the "empty session" tip.

Well, apparently the "empty session" trick didn't actually solve my problem. When I started with an empty session and immediately logged out, all was fine. But after logging back in and restarting my persistent programs (Amarok and kTorrent), the crash-on-logout was back, so there's apparently something in those two programs that 4.6 doesn't like, which is entirely possible since those are updated asynchronously with KDE. Now to figure out which is the misbehaving program.

[toad]

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Everything working fine and dandy here Waiting for the 4.6 PIM suite...

[The Liquidator]

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Toad, on the PIM, do you know whether it properly supports google calendar yet, as I'm still using t'bird?

Thanks