Hi there,
I thought that the time table said that Milestone 6 was to be out today, Jan 16th. However, I don't see it available. Was there a change that I missed?
Thanks for any and all answers,
Chuck
I think the plan is Thursday 20th
Ok. Thanks to all. The Roadmap that I got a long time ago said the 16th … or I read it wrong … or something. Anyway, now I and everyone that reads this knows. The stuff is usually released on a Thursday anyway, so I thought Sunday was unusual.
Caf, I notice that you are using KDE 4.5.5. I tried it and KDE 4.6 but was still disappointed in the TaskBar or Panel operations. In the various comments on this forum I see that others have had the same problem. IF for example, I Right Clicked the ‘Yast Admin Settings’ icon in Kmenu and then selected ‘Add to Panel’ it would place the icon on the Panel or TaskBar. However, in this latest version of KDE it does not launch the application when I click on it. Do you have that problem or have you not even tried anything like that??
Thanks,
Chuck
Launching programs from iicons/widgets docked in a panel seems to work for me with both KDE-4.5.5 and KDE-4.5.95 (4.6-RC2).
chucktr wrote:
> IF for example, I Right Clicked the ‘Yast Admin Settings’ icon
> in Kmenu and then selected ‘Add to Panel’ it would place the icon on
the
> Panel or TaskBar. However, in this latest version of KDE it does not
> launch the application when I click on it.
As you can see by my signature I am running 4.6 RC2 and I added YaST to
the panel and when I clicked on the icon it launched fine. Also works on
4.5.5 as well.
–
Thanks, Andrew
Posted from openSUSE 11.3 “Teal”, KDE 4.6 RC2
Ok. Thanks for all the info. I’ll just wait till the M6 version is available and then check it again. I see a number of you say that it works for you -but- I am not the only one that has complained about the panel and I do believe that a bug report was submitted. Well, I just looked and yes there was a bug report submitted:
Bug 660793 - Applications in the panel does not start
And as a matter of fact, there were some duplicates of this bug reported. It may have been fixed and all of us having problems just haven’t gotten the fix yet. As I said above, I’ll just wait for M6 and see if it is still there. I only have to wait till tomorrow.
Thanks for answering,
Chuck
Anyone who is interested here is the direct URL to that bug:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660793
Which has been marked as a duplicate of:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659017
Ok. Thanks for all the info. I’ll just wait till the M6 version is available and then check it again. I see a number of you say that it works for you -but- I am not the only one that has complained about the panel and I do believe that a bug report was submitted. Well, I just looked and yes there was a bug report submitted:
Bug 660793 - Applications in the panel does not start
And as a matter of fact, there were some duplicates of this bug reported. It may have been fixed and all of us having problems just haven’t gotten the fix yet. As I said above, I’ll just wait for M6 and see if it is still there. I only have to wait till tomorrow.
Thanks for answering,
Chuck
@chucktr: FWIW, I had a similar experience while upgrading to 4.5.95 (RC2) from 4.4.4, but after removing the affected icons from the panel, restarting KDE, and adding them back all was well again. Maybe the same for you?
Well, guess there was another date change. It is 5:05am on the 20th of January, 2011 here in Phoenix, AZ USA and that means it should be January 20th in the parts of the world that house openSuSE. -But- … I do not see Milestone 6 available for download. -But- (another one of those) I would rather see it work well than to be just thrown out there to meet a schedule. I understand most of you are volunteers and things can get behind because of other more important things, like your family, your job and your time to relax a little. So, I’ll be patient (that’s obviously a lie) and wait M6 to be posted in the Download area. I mean after all, I wasn’t gona do anything with this version anyway. (another lie) Take care enjoy life and smile at this message like it is meant to…
Thanks for all your time,
Chuck
It’s 14 PM here in Italy, we are at half day. They have plenty of time. rotfl!
I too am watching the download area. 
It is the 21st 2:10am here in New Zealand I think I might go to bed and see if it is out when I wake up. Can’t wait to try out M6 
Get some sleep, or find something else to do.
Stephan Kulow, also known as coolo, posted the following on yesterday on the factory mailing list:
================================
I don’t want to release Milestone6 as it is right now (build1023). There are
various issues blocking:
- /etc/mtab still is not right (broken by yast during installation bnc#665437)
- Artwork is a bad mixture and this is the last milestone (bnc#665439)
- kernel on i586 still acting up (bnc#660464)
minor issues (for M6):
- the progress bar of the live cd is not moving between 16-92% (bnc#665413)
- the live cd does not boot into the kernel (kexec broken?)
- the kde live cd crawls heavily
I hope that we fix the mtab one quickly and perhaps there is artwork left to
submit, but the kernel one is pretty ugly and there isn’t any easy fix at the
moment. Hopes are high though that we can release it next week.
Greetings, Stephan
The best guess is that it will be delayed by one week.
To see the current state of testing, see openQA.opensuse.org.
I can confirm 1023 has issues
I didn’t manage to install it
MANY thanks for the update. Needless to say many of us are curious, … Until I read your post, I had tentatively blocked off 1/2 day this weekend for testing M6, and I can now free that up for some other activities and see about freeing some time in the following weekend (for testing M6).
Many thanks from me as well.
Please developers dont get offended. I downloaded 10xx today and tested(dated yesterday).
Take your time
On 01/20/2011 01:06 PM, jonte1 wrote:
>
> Many thanks from me as well.
> Please developers dont get offended. I downloaded 10xx today and
> tested(dated yesterday).
> Take your time
The worst problem is with udev-165, which causes 32-bit systems to fail to boot
about 10-20% of the time. If you are using x86-64, then you are OK.
Oh, -tested factory update yesterday and it didn’t boot. It working with the build from 19 Jan then for me. It s a sandbox PC that I have in my workshop so I prefer as written above… Let the guys do their job 
Otherwise I’m impressed… or not by tumbleweed. First try i get .36 kernel and my computer was much more cooperative. Then it was downgraded to .34 again. Now i have received .36 again but my daughters PC’s with Intel graphics refuse to get the .36 kernel.
I’m not complaining. I should take more time to report bugs then(my fault). 
Thats a nasty bug. Hope they get it fixed soon
I dont have the problem on a 32-bit system that you are describing.
It take some effort to run bleeding edge. I mean:
“12 packages to upgrade, 905 to downgrade, 125 new, 70 to reinstall, 12 to
remove, 1 to change vendor, 1 to change arch.
Overall download size: 724.7 MiB. After the operation, additional 594.9 MiB
will be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): n”
So, use the zypper in with vlc and other packages Zypper dup no.
But that is my opinion, other people may have other thoughts.