KDE 4.9 Issues

[Thiudans]

I am thinking of upgrading to 4.9 and I have a couple of questions:

1) Has anyone had any issues with upgrading to KDE 4.9?
2) If I upgrade and I want to go back, is there a convenient way to revert back to 4.8.4?

[vinnywright]

as to #1 only this http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...ith-KDE-4-9-00 for me

as to #2 install "ppa-purge" sense you will be getting it from the backports-ppa ........use at your own risk !!
I had to use it once and a LOT of my apps got removed along with the stuff from the ppa in question ...but I was able to recover

VINNY

[Thiudans]

Thanks Vinny! Somw minor issues I see, but all were resolved. Maybe I will just wait until 12.10. :-)

[blackpaw]

I am thinking of upgrading to 4.9 and I have a couple of questions:

1) Has anyone had any issues with upgrading to KDE 4.9?
2) If I upgrade and I want to go back, is there a convenient way to revert back to 4.8.4?

1. No - at least not me personally above and beyond what existsed in 4.7

2. No

[Fintan]

I did notice one issue: when trying to change my touchpad setting from within system settings, system settings crashes. when try to open synaptiks I get a error message.

[dmeyer]

1 - As a possible long term thing I haven't seen any major issues. No problem since the upgrade and the changes are fantastic. Lots of bug fixes and its a lot more stable. A lot of the desktop effect problems have been solved and Kontact saw some nice fixes. Activities have been massively improved although I honestly can't say I use them. The only issue I have seen is one that I had in 4.8.3

2 - No easy way to go back but you can.

[Snowhog]

Here, on my 12.04 64-bit i3, KDE 4.9.00 is rock stable.

[Arran]

Hello:
I do have a problem:
After the upgrade all my 4 desktop were back to that ugly grey striped standard background. So, I had to reattribute on three desktops the picture I want there. My real problem is, that on the Desktop «Graphic» I need no picture but just a background. This is mainly, that I prefer Gimp in multiple windows mode and not the One-Windows mode. But having a uneven background is not really helpful. So I managed with the function «Muster» (first picture) to make a decent background, but not just a plain color.


This is a picture with kde 4.8.2 from Mint KDE

Now, in the new 4.9.00 there are missing a whole lot of choices.

As can be remarked the old version had nine selections, the new one only four.

Just to prevent any questions, I had the larger number of selections in Kubuntu 4.8.<9

At the moment I put in a colour, but I would prefer to get myself my usual background back.

Thanks in advance for any good hints.

[vinnywright]

strange I still have all 9 choices ??

VINNY

[sumski]

I believe that this is related to desktop containment type, i have also this choice available.

[Arran]

What does Desktop containment type mean?

[Snowhog]

I believe that sumski is referring to the 'Layout' of the desktop.

Layout (Containment)


Default Desktop
Newspaper Layout
Folder View
Search and Launch

[SteveRiley]

You're looking for plasma-wallpapers-addons.

steve@x1:~$ [B]apt-cache show plasma-wallpapers-addons[/B]
Package: plasma-wallpapers-addons
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kde
Installed-Size: 621
Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Source: kdeplasma-addons
Version: 4:4.9.0-0ubuntu2
Replaces: plasma-dataengines-addons (<= 4:4.3.0-1)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libkdecore5 (>= 4:4.9.0a), libkdeui5 (>= 4:4.9.0a), libkio5 (>= 4:4.9.0a), libknewstuff3-4 (>= 4:4.9.0a), libmarblewidget14 (>= 4:4.9.0-0ubuntu1), libplasma3 (>= 4:4.9.0a), libqimageblitz4 (>= 1:0.0.4), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libsolid4 (>= 4:4.9.0a), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), plasma-dataengines-addons (= 4:4.9.0-0ubuntu2), plasma-dataengines-workspace, kde-wallpapers
Filename: pool/universe/k/kdeplasma-addons/plasma-wallpapers-addons_4.9.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 192018
MD5sum: e0b5b26a7e7b9662d1124d9049b9d358
SHA1: 7c3533725ccff696feca615dec08cf69ae6cd119
SHA256: 845b22c31abe981c102cda6d59b8dda2bd9dced6867097206b3c5bb35414e656
Description-en: additional wallpaper plugins for Plasma
 This package contains additional Plasma wallpaper plugins that are used in
 the Plasma desktop to give marble, mandelbrot and other such wallpapers.
 .
 This package contains the following wallpaper plugins:
  * Globe (Marble)
  * Mandelbrot
  * Pattern
  * Picture of the day
  * Virus
  * Weather
 .
 This package is part of the KDE Plasma addons module.
Homepage: http://plasma.kde.org/
Description-md5: af372a6317b05b659149fe72d67ac5ed
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

[Arran]

Thank you. I now installed plasma-wallpapers-addons and all choices are back.
But why was it uninstalled during the update to 4.9.00?

[SteveRiley]

I'm not sure why, sorry...