Hello,
thank You for Your coming back to the Fujitsu-Siemens machine,
mine has a SIS Mirage 3 Graphics driver.It’s especially for office use and said
to be not very suitable for games; since the machine came without a system
I was completely free in testing,presently WinxP + 11.1.
Your are right the KDE-4.1.3 wasn’t very stable.After testing KDE- 4.2. I was
fed up and returned to KDE-3.5.10 besides Gnome.
May be my next step will be o.S.11.3 with KDE-4.4.4. with fresh install and
after test with livesystem.
e.k.
Note I am VERY conservative wrt repository addition. My repositories on this Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo 7400M consist of:
- OSS (official repository of SuSE-GmbH for free open source software)
- non-OSS (official repository of SuSE-GmbH for software that is free as in free beer, but not free per software foundation definition of free)
- update (official repository of SuSE-GmbH for updates to OSS and non-OSS)
- packman (largest 3rd party repository)
- stable KDE4 from here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Stable/openSUSE_11.1
When I updated the KDE to 4.4.4, I simply selected the stable KDE4 repository in YaST’s Software Management, and selected to install ALL newer versions.
I am trying to get “Groups” back in kaddressbook. I have gone out to the kde forum links on the topic and, in kubuntu at least, they claim a fix by adding a Backports repo. I am not sure if that will bring in “bleeding edge” stuff that will break more than it will fix. Another suggestion was to add the KDE Updates repo. I did that, but there is nothing in there about kaddressbook, so I didn’t update. One other question: is the Updates repo another name for the Backports repo?
Do you mean UpdatedApps repo?
Eg: Index of /repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/openSUSE_11.3
I think they are very similar
I am too light on knowledge to answer this well. My point is: it seems there is no KDE Backports repo listed in the community repos and UpdatedApps (which seems to have the same goal as a backport) doesn’t list anything for kaddressbook. The KDE forum says people got their kaddressbook fully functional with a backport.
I think they are one and the same now.
If you go here:
Index of /repositories/KDE:
Try clicking Backports - now look at the URL in the address bar of your browser.
Why isnt there a 4.4.5 repository for KDE?
Officially there isn’t but someone is maintaining one. Let me see if I can find it…
For 11.2
Index of /repositories/home:/dirkmueller:/KDE445/openSUSE_11.2
For 11.3
Index of /repositories/home:/dirkmueller:/KDE445/openSUSE_11.3
Yup. They’re the same. So, no fix yet. If I have no addressbook selected, there is a “new group” option. But it grays out if I select default or akonadi. I think that’s the first time I ever typed “yup.” 
Thanks. Just changed from Factory, which was really not working quite well, to Stable repository.
Hello everyone,
Are there any plans to create a current stable KDE repo? I recently installed KDE 4.5.0 on my openSUSE 11.3 using the Index of /repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Factory/openSUSE_11.3 repo. But it appears that this repo will not offer all 4.5.x point releases? Am I correct my understanding? And when KDE 4.6 development starts, the /Factory/openSUSE_11.3/ repo will start to contain dev versions, correct? I think it would make sense to create an official repo for stable KDE SC updates so that users can get all stable 4.x and 4.x.y releases as KDE releases them, but without dipping into Factory territory. For example, I currently installed the latest KDE 4.5.0 because it happens to be available in the current /Factory/openSUSE_11.3/ repo, and it happens to be stable and not a dev version. But what would I do in, say, in December of this year if I did a new install of openSUSE 11.3 and wanted to update to the latest KDE, say, 4.5.2? As the repos are set up now, I would have to decide between KDE 4.4.4 or KDE 4.6-dev, leaving a big gap for the stable KDE 4.5.x.
Thanks for considering this!
Hello,
I installed KDE 4.4.4 the way You described (KDE3.5.10 and Gnome are still there and working).However the screen -after selecting KDE4 on the greeter-remains
black except the cursor being manoeuvrable.The Yast menutable can be served
after rootinput and shows everything and can be handled as with KDE3 or Gnome.
Exiting is possible only by swtching off the machine.Meanwhile I had 2 updates of
KDE4.4.which had been accepted by the system, but the screen on KDE 4 is still
black.
As to the history: after having replaced KDE 4.1.( and 2 or 3 bugreports) and 4.2. I deinstalled everything
from KDE4base and KDE4Desktopenvironment,may be too much?
By the way:NX client from my other machine is showing the same black screen
when choosing KDE(going by default to KDE4 and not to KDE3).So I’m sure KDE4
is existing but just not showing up.
EK
Its possible something from your old/previous 4.1 has corrupted things? Create a NEW USER account, login to that new user account, and see if that works.
As a sanity check, please also provide the output of typing:
zypper lr -d
Hello,
wow, I added a new user account and KDE4 is coming up now.
The zyppercheck didn’t show any suspect entries.
Thanks very much.
EK
The zyppercheck didn’t show any suspect entries.
It’s nothing to do with zypper really.
It’s old config files in the hidden user section from your old install.
So if you want your old account back, probably just removing the .kde4 folder will do the trick
Then try logging in to it
Hello,
removing the.kde4 folder didn’t work so well.
so I decided to have a fresh install of o.S.11.3 from a DVD (Easy Linux) on my
Fuyitsu-Siemens.First I installed Gnome 2.30.1, then KDE 4.4.4, dual boot with
XP7 ( no problem),transferred the contents of my homepartition from my other
machine. So far so good.
However a big ‘but’ with KDE 4.4.4 :I am missing the feature Kontrollzentrum>
Tastatur>Tastatureinstellungen festlegen>Tastenwiederholung ausschalten.
This feature is extremely necessary (regardless of delaying times) to avoid unintended repeating of the same letter when working with a disabled person.
So I am lucky to have Gnome where this feature is availabe as it still is on
my other machine with KDE 3.5.10.
E.K.
kde
[QUOTE=eberhardkrehl;2215592]Hello,
removing the.kde4 folder didn’t work so well.
so I decided to have a fresh install of o.S.11.3 from a DVD (Easy Linux) on my
Fuyitsu-Siemens.First I installed Gnome 2.30.1, then KDE 4.4.4, dual boot with
XP7 ( no problem),transferred the contents of my homepartition from my other
machine. So far so good.
However a big ‘but’ with KDE 4.4.4 :I am missing the feature Kontrollzentrum>
Tastatur>Tastatureinstellungen festlegen>Tastenwiederholung ausschalten.
This feature is extremely necessary (regardless of delaying times) to avoid unintended repeating of the same letter when working with a disabled person.
So I am lucky to have Gnome where this feature is availabe as it still is on
my other machine with KDE 3.5.10.
E.K.
Hello,
sorry,after some more searching I eventually found the switch for enable/disable
Tastenwiederholung, it’s working fine as expected.
E.K.
As you mentioned it now - is there a way to have kde3.5 still running on os11.3? I used to have some community KDE repositories from the buildservice, but they are gone now. I particularly like to get the kuickshow application back, which I prefer against all others for speed and easy of use.
Please start a new thread, and be as specific as you can. You’re now using an announcement to express your problems. This may make you miss a lot of response.