I’m just curious as to others impressions of M2 running KDE 4.9.95. Myself I haven’t found anything that isn’t working properly. I’ve notice an increase in boot and shutdown speeds over 12.2, and all seems to be very stable.
I’m just curious because I am at the “OK its working” stage, and I’m looking for something broken to mess with until I crash the system and have to reload.>:)
I am seeing 4.9.90, rather than 4.9.95.
My main gripe is with the screen locker that seems to have replace the screen saver. I cannot turn off locking, other than by disabling it entirely.
I definitely notice a longer startup time (desktop startup time - I’m not sure that boot time is worse). Desktop shutdown time or logout time is also longer, but not as noticeable as the startup time.
Other than that, it seems pretty stable.
All is updated and system is running considerably faster. On the Kscreenlocker front I went /usr/lib64/kde4/libexe and put kscreenlocker_greet in trash. No more locking. That will give me time to come up with or find a more viable solution.
Discretion not being one of my strong suits when it comes to tinkering around with the system, I ran a search from /root for kscreenlocker and started deleting.
I’ll bet you can’t guess what happened next.
If you guessed clean re-install you are right. rotfl!
No big deal. It is one of the reasons I like running bleeding edge. I can mess it up and start over. Gives me something to do.
I think for now I will stick with disabling the auto start or only deleting the kscreenlocker_greet. The one draw back to deleting kscreenlocker_greet is you loose the screen saver aspect of it to.
To avoid this:
I definitely notice a longer startup time (desktop startup time - I***'m not sure that boot time is worse)***
**Either delete pulseaudio-module-x11 or update it with the current factory version
I’ve tried 12.3 Milestone2 on live cd.
My first impressions are very good.
Works very well! rotfl!
Here are my impressions: I got it to run on my system76 “koala” (an AOPEN 64 bit machine) with few problems. That hardware is starting to get flaky, so I had trouble. On a 2012 HP Folio with 4G of RAM it ran flawlessly. I poked around and couldn’t find anything to complain about. I tested it as well on a Core-Duo Mac Mini. There, during bootstrapping it complained about not finding a “controller” of some sort. The splash screen was garbled after that, but by the time it got to a log in screen, it worked fine, including network. I’m impressed!
I tested Kontact where I notice the tasklist is working better than in openSUSE 12.2, it seems the LDAP finally works (a longstanding complaint I have about KDE4), and networking (including wireless) all worked flawlessly. If only repos were avaiable, I’d have installed and lived with it as my new distro.
My only complaints are aesthetics, and there it’s hard to please everyone. But for consideration: I’ve always like the lush, green interfaces of SUSE, so this flat black background seemed really cold and boring to me. Consider inverting the image, so the stem and chameleon are black, and the background is a textured green! But that’s my opinion, and what I like about KDE is that you can customize to your liking.
A KDE complaint: it might be useful to start out each component in Kontact with a starter database. At present, you can’t immediately add a calendar entry because you have no calendars! So you have to add a new one (figure out which type is correct) before proceeding. Same goes for task list and addressbook. I think this is an upstream shortcoming, but it might be useful to start Kontact out with a local addressbook and calendar so you can immediately see what it does.
Other than that, nice work! openSUSE 12.1 and 12.2 have both had some kind of screen blanking bug - maybe a KDE issue? - that have made me crazy. It looks like 12.3 has fixed it. I’m hopeful! Can’t wait to install it.
+1, for me too, :)I don’t like: black screen and white icons on the system tray, but fortunately they are easy to change
and also the “MUG” (device notifier) on the system tray??
the network wired icon is something quite far to something that should mean network
but, why the designer are choosing monochrome icons instead of the colored ones??? 
ciao, pier
If you have suggestions, feel free to ping me at #opensuse-kde 
(nickname: shumski)
Beer icon was a joke, and will be changed for final, same as wired network icon
it’s easy to say what don’t like:), when I’ll have clear ideas I will do… for now only a question, why white icons??? and why cannot be bigger??
:), it is really a mug???, I thought it was something similar… tha seemed a left-handed-mug :-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-),
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> My only complaints are aesthetics, and there it’s hard to please
> everyone. But for consideration: I’ve always like the lush, green
> interfaces of SUSE, so this flat black background seemed really cold
> and
> boring to me. Consider inverting the image, so the stem and chameleon
> are black, and the background is a textured green! But that’s my
> opinion, and what I like about KDE is that you can customize to your
> liking.
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I agree with you on the black background. I used the KDE LiveCd and when
it got to the stem and chameleon screen everything was black and the
text was impossible to read (its black). Did not show any message to hit
any key to continue until I switched to text mode, Then only enter key
seemed to work. Once I got to screen I could read, I tried switching
theses to get rid of black background, switching did not work. Is this
because its the KDE LiveCD? Note sig. my normal graphics is an Nvidia
card. Works fine with 12.2.
> are black
> new one (figure out which type is correct) before proceeding. Same
> goes
> for task list and addressbook. I think this is an upstream
> shortcoming, but it might be useful to start Kontact out with a local
> addressbook and calendar so you can immediately see what it does.
I will try the DVD install as soon as I get a good backup of grub2, etc.
Russ
openSUSE 12.2(Linux 3.4.11-2.16-desktop x86_64)|
KDE 4.9.5 “release 3”|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce
8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.60)