KDE 4.7.4

[DeMus]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

3. As a personal opinion, I'm not sure any amount of work will ever salvage libreoffice (it's workable, but not really a pleasure to use, especially on older hardware or things like smart phones).

What is wrong with LibreOffice? I use it on a daily basis and it works great. Not one problem sofar.

Like I said, just a personal opinion. If it works well for you, that's great
(It works for me, too...but not a pleasure to use)

My main gripe with it is that it's rather big, monolithic and slow, and that's one of those things that is hard to fix (not a big problem with a modern computer, I'll admit). The UI is also a bit cumbersome.

About the UI: Yes, it is not what you would expect on a KDE install, but LibreOffice is not specially made for KDE, is it?
I had the same with Evolution. After having it used on Gnome it now looks terrible on KDE, so I switched to Thunderbird.
Do you run the latest Java. This can speed up things since LO can use Java. It makes it snappier.

[kubicle]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

About the UI: Yes, it is not what you would expect on a KDE install, but LibreOffice is not specially made for KDE, is it?
I had the same with Evolution. After having it used on Gnome it now looks terrible on KDE, so I switched to Thunderbird.

It's not really about the looks of it. I use qtcurve that has a matching gtk-engine (I believe oxygen has one, too) so I can make it look pretty much like a KDE application. It's more about the functionality/scalability. Libreoffice is not something I'd like to use on my N900...nor is it likely ever going to be, no matter how much work is put into it.

Do you run the latest Java. This can speed up things since LO can use Java. It makes it snappier.

Don't get me started about that

I appreciate your suggestions, though. And I'm sure libreoffice will work fine for most people.

Anyway, I didn't mean to derail the thread, let's get back to 4.7.4

[ronw]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

4.7.4 is in the kubuntu ppa repo for 11.10.

[Jonas]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

4.7.4 is in the kubuntu ppa repo for 11.10.

Do you mean the backport? I only have some cups udates today, w/o backports

edit; somehow I had unchecked it - now 200 updates

[ronw]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

Do you mean the backport? I only have some cups udates today, w/o backports

No, the regular Kubuntu Updates repo (https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa). Backports doesn't have an Oneiric branch yet.

[LinuxRocks]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

Do you mean the backport? I only have some cups udates today, w/o backports

No, the regular Kubuntu Updates repo (https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa). Backports doesn't have an Oneiric branch yet.

Upgraded this morning... Nice and smoooooth.

Have to say that kmail and the whole kontact suite is rather snappier now... Have to play more with them, but so far I like this update.

Joe

[blackpaw]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

Yes it is, I'm back to Kmail full time and much happier. Excellent job on the packaging!

[abalone]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

Hm. One of my Kmail issues has been fixed, it seems ... I can now use a procmail lockfile to keep Akonadi from freaking out every time postfix deposits new mail in the /var/mail mbox. I don't know if that's how it's supposed to work, but ok. But it still doesn't properly delete messages from that resource -- though it pops up umpteen notifications about unreadable messages when I try to view the seemingly undeleted messages. Back to Thunderbird... for now.

Edit ~ it seems I spoke to soon. The regular new mail Akonadi freakout is back. More bugs than before, then?

[budr]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

I've been playing with a fairly new oneiric install on a spare partition. This morning I upgraded to 4.7.4. Then I cloned my home directory from my old reliable lucid installation. Just now I fired up kmail2 for the first time. It seems to have imported/migrated all of my email, folders, filters, everything. The only thing that looks amiss is, in the message list, for subject, sender, and date, all of the folders show

(No subject) Unknown Unknown

So far everything else looks OK.

[budr]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

OK, I upgraded to 4.7.90 yesterday. Then I did the manual migration of my mail folders as outlined in the wiki. It took a while but it looks like I got everything intact.

The only thing left is filtering, which AFAICT is still not working. I take it that's a known problem, been around for a while. If I could solve that, I'd be ready to move permanently to oneiric and 4.8. Has anyone come up with any solutions or workarounds for the filter issue?

[OneLine]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/01/11...tu-devel.html:

ScottK 4.7.4 upload to oneiric-proposed in process. 17:06

[OneLine]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ku...y/005771.html:

Scott Kitterman
Sun Jan 15 19:48:07 UTC 2012

Final packages are in oneiric-proposed for testing. All of i386, amd64, and
i386 are built. We're still waiting for a few armel packages to build.

Please test and put test results in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/on...bs/+bug/913928

Thanks,

Scott K

[OneLine]

Re: KDE 4.7.4

Cherry picking

Picking the KDE 4.7.4 packages from the Ubuntu proposed.

Ubuntu proposed:

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuUpdates
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed

A) Making a upgrade list:

- Enabling the ubuntu proposed repository.
- Updating the package database.

Building upgradeable package list:

apt-get -s dist-upgrade > Simulation.txt

Filtering, selecting lines with "Inst" and package version "4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1"

cat Simulation.txt | grep Inst | grep 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2 > KDE_Upgrade.txt

B) Upgrading from a package list:

sudo apt-get install $(cat KDE_Upgrade.txt)

man apt-get:

    install
      install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation or upgrading.

Log of sudo apt-get install libkimproxy4 kde-runtime kwrite kate-data libkateinterfaces4...libokularcore1 okular okular-extra-backends

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be upgraded:
ark cervisia cvsservice dolphin dragonplayer filelight freespacenotifier
...
python-kde4 sweeper system-config-printer-kde systemsettings umbrello
223 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 104 not upgraded.
Need to get 105 MB of archives.
After this operation, 21.0 MB disk space will be freed.

[SecretCode]

I see 4.7.4 has hit the main repository. (At least that's what I assume it is from the version numbers.)

I'm offered 614MB of updates. Admittedly this includes an update to kernel 3.0.0-15 (last version came out at the weekend, only 2 or 3 days ago?) and I have few debug packages installed, which are big beasts.

Has anyone installed this with good/bad experiences? On Kubuntu 11.10, even better on amd64.

[OneLine]

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-sc-474:

The previously announced KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.7.4 updates have completed QA testing and have been released to all users in the oneiric-updates repository. This is the last planned complete update for KDE SC 4.7 packages...

Here upgraded the KDE 4.7.4 from the PPA -> oneiric proposed -> oneiric updates. Working fine.