Hi Marc, On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:22:53 -0400 Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am just wondering if it is just me, but, ever since the KDE update, Which KDE update? > I had problems with my desktops and laptops (5 in total). I have had > to delete .kde4 (Home folder) on 4 of these boxes, and the last one > has not been updated yet (my son just finished his summer holidays > and was breaking in his Windows partition with his new install of > WOW); Just a note - NEVER (!!) delete ~/.kde4/ as this will lose all your settings. You can instead move it away using the "mv" command: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv I'm just mentioning it so people won't be encouraged to do so (and you shouldn't do so in the future). > now that summer vacation is over and WOW time is reduced, he > will have to update. I was hoping he would try playing WOW on his > Mageia partition. > > Has anyone else had any problems? > > Some of the problems that I have had: > > -- general slow down in speed > -- Klipper would disappear at login > -- the Lan connection Icon would disappear > -- some of the KDE preferences would somehow go back to their default > state > -- log off widget in the taskbar (lower-right) would quit > responding > -- re-start option (Start button ...) would also stop > responding > I didn't encounter any of these problems either on Mageia 2 x86-64 or Mageia Cauldron x86-64. If you can reproduce them somehow, you can file bug reports on http://bugs.kde.org/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish > The problems happened intermittently. The KDE bug assistant did come > up on one of my 2 laptops but I did not have sufficient information > to submit the bug report, just general stuff like above. > > I've deleted the .kde4 file and they all run fine now. > > Cheers, > > Marc > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Public Domain Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/ I’d do Windows-- , but this may result in an integer underflow. — an Israeli Linuxer. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
