Kde 4.9.97 (kde 4.10 rc2)

[Teunis]

Hmm, this morning I had ~340 packages update for KDE-4.9.97 and so far it works well.

[vinnywright]

Hmm, this morning I had ~340 packages update for KDE-4.9.97 and so far it works well.

Humm ..... did you add the beta repo ?

VINNY

[bsniadajewski]

@vinny

You must've added the Kubuntu updates PPA, since I currently show a few minor updates to some 4.9.4 packages from quantal-proposed.

[vinnywright]

@vinny

You must've added the Kubuntu updates PPA, since I currently show a few minor updates to some 4.9.4 packages from quantal-proposed.

why yes ,,,yes I did
what I was saying to @Teunis was that he must have added the beta ppa to have goten 4.9.97 ,,,,or 4.10 as it were.

VINNY

[ronw]

Yes, with Beta Backports enabled you got 4.9.97 today. Also known as 4.10 RC 3, I think.

[kubicle]

It's actually RC2, RC3 will be released January 17 (and will likely be tagged 4.9.98)

[Teunis]

Indeed, I should have made clear it is via the beta PPA.
It was meant as a tongue in cheek 'mine is bigger' reply to vinny's report about the regular 4.9.5 update but I appreciate the split in different threads.
Important is it works well for me.

I enabled it around the previous release, 4.9.95 and got the feeling it made the whole DE more nimble.

[bsniadajewski]

why yes ,,,yes I did
what I was saying to @Teunis was that he must have added the beta ppa to have goten 4.9.97 ,,,,or 4.10 as it were.

VINNY

Ah, I see. I wonder when the 4.9.5 will be up in normal updates or in Proposed.

BTW I plan on moving to 4.10 when I upgrade to Raring (whenever that happens, whether 4.10 goes RTM or Raring does).

[Shimapan]

I've upgraded to 4.10 RC2 using the Beta repository (from 4.9.5).

So far it feels good, and somehow more nimble than 4.9

However, the screensaver doesn't work for me. I had set it to activate after a time-out, without password prompt for reactivation.
After the upgrade however, the first time the screensaver started (or better: *should* have started), I only got an "unlock screen" dialog on a black background.
Going to the screen lock settings in system settings, I found that it curiously had changed from "Screensaver" to "simple screen lock". I changed it to "Screensaver" and applied the changes.

That didn't change anything, however. The next time, I still got a "screen lock" dialog on a black screen, instead of the screensaver. I also noticed a yellow crash icon in the system tray, which told me that the screensaver had crashed.

I've then tried the screen saver in the screen lock settings dialog by clicking on the "Test" button, and it worked fine. So the screensaver itself is ok, but it somehow fails to activate after the set time-out, and a screen lock dialog appears even if it shouldn't.

Anyone had a similar problem?

[james147]

Anyone had a similar problem?

I have heard similar problems, I highly suggest reporting any issues to bug.kde.org as the screen locker has changed allot in kde 4.10 and suffers from what all new features suffer from: a lack of testing and reporting.

Personally I disable the screen saver and just set the screen to turn off, save allot more power and doesn't wake up the GPU to render the fancy effects.

[Teunis]

I haven't used a screensaver since the Carousel version stopped working.

So I've installed one and indeed, together with the screensaver the unlock shows up.