Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.6.x going stable?

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Wednesday 16 February 2011 17:51:45 Dale wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
wrote:
> >> Ask kde what's their timeline to release 4.6.1. Add 30 days. Not
> >> before then.
> >
> > AFAIK the release date for 4.6.1 is scheduled for March 1
>
> I'll add this.  KDE 4.6 has shutdown/logout issues here.  If I have
> Kpatience or Konqueror open when I log out, it won't log out.  I have to
> go to a console, login, kill xdm, kill the leftover cruft from KDE,
> restart xdm and login.  There was a update to kdelibs that was supposed
> to fix this but I may need to re-emerge konqueror, Kpatience and friends
> for it to die cleanly.
>
> Right now, I would wait unless whatever is stable is causing you
> issues.  This would be a really good idea if someone that is not geeky
> is using the system.  They may not know how to kill everything or have
> the root password to kill it all.  If it is just you, you may not mind
> the extra steps.
>
> If you are interested, I can post back if re-emerging those fixes it or
> not.  I upgraded kdelibs but have not re-emerged the rest yet.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

I had similar problems with the "stable" kde 4.4.5 where I was unable to 
logout/shutdown.
A rebuild of KDE resolved that, not sure which part was malfunctioning.

Please try rebuilding those and see if it works. I had the issue as well when 
all programs were already closed. So it might not be those two causing the 
problems.

I will test logging out with konqueror and kpatience running on 4.6.0 
(testing) when I get back home tonight.
I didn't see this problem with this version yet.

FWIW, I have not seen any issues with 4.6.0 (including the 4.6 version of 
kdepim) that weren't solved by fixing other packages and I have been running it 
for a couple of weeks now.

--
Joost

PS. I did wipe my ~/.kde folders as I had some issues caused by settings that 
were already present since 3.3.x...