On Saturday, 1 August 2015 01:20:04 UTC+1, Arp Laht wrote: > I can confirm, unfortunately. :( > > Attempted an upgrade today (01.08) a bit past midnight. > Was warned about "plasma-desktop" conflicting "kde-workspace-bin", > "kde-workspace-data" and some 7 other packages. > Chose to proceed. Uninstalled them. Results aren't neat. > If you depend on your system to do accomplish work, > do NOT upgrade at the moment! > > Details: > - networkmanager working, fortunately, connectivity not lost > - most non-KDE apps working (iceweasel, pidgin, gimp, etc) > unless you want to resize their windows (no obvious way to do it) > > - all desktop items gone (was using folder view) > - no obvious way of switching back to folder view > > - windows cannot be reized by dragging > - no obvious alternative way to resize windows > > - K menu switched over from classing to new version > - no obvious way of switching back > > - Dolphin working very strangely, most options inaccessible > > Very fortunately I do all of my actual work (except 3D design) > in VirtualBox VMs, and VirtualBox works without any changes. > I can thus ignore that my KDE "stumbled and fell", > but I must caution others, plz be careful! > > Best regards, > Arp. > > > --
kwin-x11 is a solution to the inability to resize windows and lack of window furniture. That was one of my problems 10 days ago when updating unstable. I also couldn't navigate through file finder dialogs and that was addressed by installing kio The main missing app for me now is ksudoku. How sad is that? anxiousmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/13d1cfca-8ad2-4ba4-9210-a409ba499...@googlegroups.com
