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lmilano
Jul 24th 2009, 03:12 PM
IMPORTANT: this is still development software, don't install it if you want a stable system.

Here is the announcement:
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2.98

If you spot any bugs, please report them here as soon as possible:
https://bugs.kde.org/

Comments? Has anyone tried it?
Thanks!
roadrunner58
Jul 24th 2009, 07:28 PM
Working fine here. No problems. Getting close to the final release of KDE 4.3.
lmilano
Jul 24th 2009, 07:36 PM
Working fine here. No problems. Getting close to the final release of KDE 4.3.


Awesome, no plasma Crashes? No Kontact crashes? I am tented to try it on my eeepc, KDE4.2.4 is just too slow to login on cold boot. Thanks!
Fintan
Jul 24th 2009, 07:52 PM
Awesome, no plasma Crashes? No Kontact crashes? I am tented to try it on my eeepc, KDE4.2.4 is just too slow to login on cold boot. Thanks!

Works great on my dinky hp paviliion 500mb ram. Except when you open to many apps.
Had to do do a fresh install. Upgrade from JJ messed a few things up.

Wish i could try a real intsall of the netbook version.
lmilano
Jul 24th 2009, 08:07 PM
Thanks Fintan

This sounds scary though:



Had to do do a fresh install. Upgrade from JJ messed a few things up.


I hope I can just upgrade. Installing from scratch on the 4gb disk is a PITA. How about you, roadrunner58, is this an upgrade in Jaunty? Others? Thanks everyone!
doctordruidphd
Jul 24th 2009, 08:49 PM
Installed on both karmic and jaunty (the karmic being a recent upgrade from jaunty).
So far, so good, no problems.
liamdawe
Jul 24th 2009, 09:11 PM
What is the easiest way to upgrade? Just enable backports?
lmilano
Jul 25th 2009, 12:08 AM
Its in the announcement, yeah

Folks, I am going in, too exciting to waste ;)

Thank you all for the feedback!
freedom2009
Jul 25th 2009, 01:53 AM
Installed it a few hours ago
so far it works great ;D ;D
lmilano
Jul 25th 2009, 01:57 AM
Typing from my eeepc in KDE 4.3 RC 3, so far so good!
lmilano
Jul 25th 2009, 04:24 AM
An update, in KDE 4.3 I can't log out (I need to "sudo reboot" from a konsole). I am glad I only put this on the eee, which is single user. It would have been very inconvenient in the main desktop shared by 3 users!
Fintan
Jul 25th 2009, 06:04 AM
At first I upgraded from JJ to kamic, but my JJ was, well...... special in a few ways and that is why the upgrade was choppy so I installed karmic proper.

I don't have a log out issue at all.Hmm... I remember having that in Intrepid alpha x

let me dig around.
lmilano
Jul 25th 2009, 07:30 AM
Thanks, Fintan, I was thinking I might have to report this, but because you are not seeing it anymore (and probably others neither) it maybe something local ...
Bolly
Jul 25th 2009, 10:15 AM
An update, in KDE 4.3 I can't log out (I need to "sudo reboot" from a konsole). I am glad I only put this on the eee, which is single user. It would have been very inconvenient in the main desktop shared by 3 users!


It's not just me then! Can't use 'logout', 'restart' or 'shutdown' from the menu since the update. 'Switch user' works.
Fintan
Jul 25th 2009, 11:05 AM
Hmm... lmilano.
I just had another look on my laptop.

I can shut down :) and reboot :) but log out hangs :(.

So maybe there is a bug somewhere.

I don't have this on my desktop either with JJ nor KK
lmilano
Jul 25th 2009, 03:30 PM
Time to report then, but in kde bugs, not launchpad, since for Karmic we would need to test on a bleeding edge, up to datet Karmic, that none of us seems to have !
lmilano
Jul 26th 2009, 01:32 AM
I really like these exclamation signs that appear on the desktop, in any icon that leads you to write a script

When you run it for the first time it asks if you trust that script, and if you say YES the exclamation sign is removed

Neat! I was going to upload a screenshot but I dont see the option to upload images anymore, has it been removed? (UPDATE: this particular forum (Kubuntu Announcements) does not allow to add screenshots, others do, is this a forum bug or a feature?)
lmilano
Jul 26th 2009, 03:51 PM
Folks, I opened a bug report in bugzilla. Those of you having this bug please create an account if you don't have one, and confirm the bug. Let's help make this release a better release :)

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201569
kjjjjshab
Jul 26th 2009, 04:13 PM
In all the 4.3 RCs, I've had an app only vertical panel, and for no reason the icons keep getting reordered... has anyone else had a similar experience? Not using the quicklaunch plasmoid, just the normal panel. Thanks.
lmilano
Jul 26th 2009, 04:25 PM
In all the 4.3 RCs, I've had an app only vertical panel, and for no reason the icons keep getting reordered... has anyone else had a similar experience? Not using the quicklaunch plasmoid, just the normal panel. Thanks.


Mine is horizontal, and I dont really have this issue
Fintan
Jul 26th 2009, 04:30 PM
I've had an app only vertical panel, and for no reason the icons keep getting reordered... has anyone else had a similar experience

Same here on my desktop, not on my laptop ???
kjjjjshab
Jul 27th 2009, 02:31 AM
I've had an app only vertical panel, and for no reason the icons keep getting reordered... has anyone else had a similar experience

Same here on my desktop, not on my laptop ???


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195193