"Ivan E. Moore II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --snip-- < > is there any pressing things that needs to be done to the packages that > are currently in sid? Patches, submissions, last minute simple changes? > > Speak now or forever hold your piece. In a few weeks it will be RC bug > fixes only. > > Ivan
Ivan, I am back with my list of "nits" for your consideration. Same old stuff...klisa doesnt work properly plus a suggestion on the initial (startup) wallpaper on the main kde screen. All of these suggestions & nits apply to both the ALPHA and i386 arches. All are confirmed on the most recent packages from SID updated as of yesterday, 28 Nov 01. Problem #1. Clicking on "Local Network" will only find the "localhost" and no other network hosts. This remains as such even after configuring klisa in Control Center--> Network --> Lan Browsing. Investigation reveals that when klisa is configured this way, it will ALWAYS save the lisarc file in /etc/lisarc. However, the klisa initscript in /etc/init.d/klisa is set to read its configuration info from /etc/kde2/lisarc. Therefore the updated local config information in /etc/lisarc is never read. This problem appeared in KDE 2.2.X, and was not present in KDE 2.1.2. FIX to #1. There are probably better ways to do this, but I moved the supplied /etc/kde2/lisarc file out of the way and created a symlink to the /etc/lisarc file and re-started klisa. It will now "see" the other computers on the LAN. I tried the symlink the other way (from /etc/lisarc --> /etc/kde2/lisarc) but when I configured the network "Lan Browsing" again, the symlink was removed and a new /etc/lisarc file was created. Problem #2. Clicking on the (+) sign beside the "Local Network" icon will produce this error: "Cannot find parent item lan://localhost/ in the tree. Internal Error". Blind investigation here have revealed the "URL" line in the <HOME>/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/dirtree/remote/lan.desktop file is set to "URL=lan:/". Changing this to read "URL=lan://localhost/" will restore normal behavior and clicking on the (+) sign beside the "Local Network" icon will expand to a sub-tree of all the LAN comuters found. This problem appeared in KDE 2.2.X, and was not present in KDE 2.1.2. BTW, I have found similar bug reports on the KDE bug list from other distros (SuSE,Mandrake). This would indicate this may be more of a KDE "generic" problem than just a Debian version problem. FIX to #2. For all accounts that already have a <HOME>/.kde/ directory, the local sysadmin will have to manually edit the <HOME>/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/dirtree/remote/lan.desktop file and make this change to make the system work correctly. HOWEVER, for new accounts and/or new installs of KDE where there is NOT an existing .kde directory, if the /usr/share/apps/konqueror/dirtree/remote/lan.desktop file contains this edit, then it will be applied to each new KDE setup created. This change also will allow deletion of old ~/.kde directories and re-generation of a corrected lan.desktop file automatically. This is something to consider for the final package if a better solution is not found. PROBLEM #3. The initial background is set to display the "Debian.jpg" wallpaper, however this wallpaper is never shown when first starting up KDE and going through the new setup wizard. I can later get it to display by first turning off the wallpaper setting (none) in Control Center --> Look & Feel --> Background and applying that new config, THEN redoing the above and selecting the Debian.jpg wallpaper and applying it again. This same thing has shown up on 4 different computers here over multiple installs (> 6) of KDE 2.2.2 . FIX to #3. (Suggested). Since the wallpaper is not currently being shown anyway, why not just set the default wallpaper to "none". This will possibly save some memory for users will limited memory resources. Submitted for your consideration. Cheers, -Don Spoon-
