On Thu 16 Dec 2021 at 16:56:22 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Thursday 16 December 2021 02:49:17 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > I'd posted about my update a while back, and while some folks were > > > encouraging me to go all the way to 11 since it's the current version, > > > my thinking has been to see how things are working, what's changed, > > > what broke, etc. and deal with all of that before I continue on in the > > > update process. > > > > > > Some of the things I'm dealing with are: > > > > > > 1. An annoying blue dot showed up in my taskbar. > > > Right-clicking on this gave me an option to "quit", which I would do, > > > and then within a few seconds it would come right back again! I finally > > > tracked this down to being "KDEaccessible", which I've done nothing to > > > invoke and don't know why the upgrade put that in there. I solved the > > > problem by using synaptic to uninstall the package, since I have no use > > > for it. > > > > > > > This one is solved for the moment, then. > > Yeah, but why the heck did this get turned on in the first place? Or even > installed?
One might hypothesise that . you run KDE, and KDE makes cvhanges that aren't always popular with every user. . KDE recommends kdeaccessibility depends on kaccessible. . KDE make changes to kaccessible for people who require and use it. Seems reasonable. > > > 2. My virtual (older) Slackware virtualbox install is seeing a few issues. > Under Slackware it's a very old version of KDE, which I much prefer to the > newer stuff. Yes, that's what I meant above. I think there's a cohort who use TDE instead. > It bugs me that things get changed, for no apparent reason, and that stuff > gets added, likewise. The reasons are often made apparent in the packages' changelogs. > > > There's probably more, but I would like to get these things ironed out > > > before I go chasing any more stuff, and before I continue on the upgrade > > > path... This list, from four years ago, might be a good place to look for threads talking about these problems the first time around. But I can't help thinking of someone laying a carpet before they've painted the ceiling, or vacuuming the floor before dusting the furniture. Better to create just one big mess and then clear it all up in one go? > But upgrading involves me copying a whole pile of stuff over to my > server, including some really large files that are involved in Virtualbox > and the one snapshot I have, and then figuring out a whole mess of detailed > stuff that I need to do to make the upgrade happen. Each time you upgrade?! > Last time it was something like 3 or 4 days before I was back to anything > remotely resembling normal, and I'm not looking forward to the next time (or > two). Cheers, David.
