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Jakob Kummerow posted on Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:58:56 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> (1) update KDE to 4.6.x (IMHO it's better overall than 4.4.x ever was, |
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> YMMV) |
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YMMV indeed. While I'd definitely recommend updating to a later 4.5, as |
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in 4.5.4 or 4.5.5, that won't do away with the hal dependency for device |
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detection and automounting. |
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I personally had no problems with 4.6.0 or 4.6.1, but 4.6.0 being the |
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first in the 4.6 feature series it wasn't really considered ready for |
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stable, and 4.6.1 had a number of regressions -- kde's switching svn -> |
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git and some of the tarball components got pulled from the wrong |
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location. Still, either of those were reasonably fine by me. (It's worth |
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noting in context, however, that for whatever reason, auto-detection |
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worked for me in 4.6.1 but not in 4.6.0). |
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4.6.2 has been worse, and from the kde-linux and kde-general lists I |
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participate in upstream, I'm not the only one to find it so. |
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One of the bigger problems seems to be if you have dual monitors, so if |
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you don't commonly run with more than a single monitor, 4.6.2 might be |
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fine. But apparently, 4.6.2 plasma has problems figuring out which |
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monitor the panels should be on and their size, as I have problems with |
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one of mine insisting that it belongs on the wrong monitor, at every kde |
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start (or plasma-desktop restart, if I terminate and restart it manually, |
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as I do occasionally), and another poster mentioned problems with it being |
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on the correct edge for him, but at the wrong location and size. Both of |
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us have to reset the one panel every time we restart kde or plasma-desktop. |
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So 4.6.1 was the best in the 4.6 series for me, since both plasma and |
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device detection worked, while one or the other has been broken for me on |
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4.6.0 and 4.6.2. But 4.6.2 should be fine for single-monitor folks. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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