Benjamin Ellis wrote:
[...]
> Also, is there a way to perserve desktop icon layout and panel launcher
> settings when updating to kde2.0 final?  I've reinstalled mandrake-desk,
> setup, and initscripts and it still doesn't look the way it did when i first
> installed.  The launcher icons don't point to anything and most of the KDE
> apps are missing from the menu.


I can't help you with your compile problems but as for kde 2.0final.  I
do 
believe it is major-league broken.  If you check you will also see that
almost
EVERY single site that had the rpms yesterday no longer have them. 
There
are only a couple of sites that still has them and I'll bet they vanish
soon
too.

The drive icons don't do anything.  Instead of opening up the drive, you
get a menu asking what you want to open it will (no mounting, nothing).

A number of the entries in the kmenu, when you actually get them, don't
work.  The "run" command in the menu, as far as I can tell, doesn't work
either.  Enter ANY command you want in the run window and it will not
do anything.

Broken.  Big, bad broken.  Useless broken.  The announcement of the
final
was premature.  I am now kde-less after trying to play with kde 2.0
"final".
I am not willing to go back and reinstall all of the 1.1.2 rpms yet
AGAIN so
it looks like it is gnome from here on out.  If kde 2.0 isn't fixed and
available soon (and if it REQUIRES one to run a beta version of
Mandrake),
then I may just get so used to gnome that I never go back.

On a side note...

One should not HAVE to run a beta distribution in order to run a
non-beta,
stable app like KDE 2.0 is _supposed_ to be.  I am presuming at this
point
that it was widely discovered to be REALLY dicked up and thus it was
pulled
and that a fixed version will soon appear.  How terribly embarrassing
and
what bad press they will end up with making an announcement that the
STABLE
and FINAL KDE 2.0 is now available only to find that it is VERY screwed
up
package.  That is something one expects from M$.

Message to Mandrake:  do not make the STABLE version of KDE 2.0
dependent 
upon BETA level libs and an otherwise BETA system.  Bad, bad, bad.  

praedor

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