Upgrade issues from KDE v4.3.x to v4.4.x on Kubuntu v9.10

[bmw]

I have done this upgrade on three fairly generic Kubuntu machines, one 32-bit and two 64-bit multi-cores.

Issues:

• Had to use Synaptic as KPackagekit kept blocking essential packages from installing
• Had to run upgrade three times to get all installed; YOU MUST DO THIS!!!
• Upon reboot of 4.4.x, duplicate Desktop plasmoid and system bar panel plasmoid were created.
• In 4.4.x, all advanced settings of plasmoids disappear, ie, all System Monitor plasmoids lost color settings, and Network plasmoid lost upload metering is shadowed
• Kicker/Quicksand now pins to top center of screen; You must reset the settings. The radio buttons do not visually activate but do work.
• Wireless applet settings in system tray pins to top left corner of screen

[esdaniel]

Re: Upgrade issues from KDE v4.3.x to v4.4.x on Kubuntu v9.10

I was a bit gutted I've not yet been able to figure out how to pin systray notifications (such as choqok & kmail) to another part of my desktop i.e. bottom left:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/6763744...plasma-desktop

Some panel icons, such as the weather widget, are not scaling correctly at present as per this thread:
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=85470

Also, as of today, the pinentry tool for signing emails broke (exception: "Bad Passphrase") so to get that running again I followed this old how-to:
http://developer.gauner.org/kmail-pgpmime/index.en.html