OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19277/KDE_4_0_1_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:57:29 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com And the dot story... http://osnews.com/thread?299500 http://osnews.com/thread?299500 here: http://dot.kde.org/1202239435/

3.5.9 due out in a couple weeks. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (leos) Comments kongrats http://osnews.com/thread?299508 http://osnews.com/thread?299508 nice to see stuff moving to skhedule, looking forward to 4.1. ;) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (REMF) Comments Poor Pluto http://osnews.com/thread?299526 http://osnews.com/thread?299526 It's a pity that the bug in kstars about treating Pluto as an asteroid instead of a planet, wasn't #134340.

Obscure joke, sorry. Check Wikipedia. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DigitalAxis) Comments Not Working! http://osnews.com/thread?299552 http://osnews.com/thread?299552 4.0.1 just became available in the Kubuntu repositories, and now since I "upgraded" to it, almost none of my KDE4 apps will even load. What gives? Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jlacroix) Comments Mandriva 2008.0 packages? http://osnews.com/thread?299553 http://osnews.com/thread?299553 No packages for Mandriva 2008.0 this time around?
Is the Mandriva sponsored KDE developer some well deserved vacation? ;) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gireesh) Comments RE: Not Working! http://osnews.com/thread?299594 http://osnews.com/thread?299594 "Works-for-me"(tm) on openSUSE with the KDE/KDE4/STABLE/Desktop repository. Maybe there's a problem with the Kubuntu packages. The maintainers even backported the resizable panel from trunk :-)Edited 2008-02-06 07:48 UTC Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Erunno) Comments RE: Not Working! http://osnews.com/thread?299595 http://osnews.com/thread?299595 The problem might be that some of the binaries or .desktop-files were renamed in kubuntu packages, so all the KDE4 apps I had in favorites didn't work anymore since the entries didn't point to them anymore, so I had to readd the apps to favorites.Edited 2008-02-06 08:17 UTC Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (m_abs) Comments RE: Poor Pluto http://osnews.com/thread?299605 http://osnews.com/thread?299605 Since 2007-08-24 Pluto is not the planet any more. It's planetaoid or something like that. I remeber it, 'cause it was announced on my birthday ;) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Punktyras) Comments RE: Poor Pluto http://osnews.com/thread?299606 http://osnews.com/thread?299606 No, it is correct, Pluto is now a plutino. Kstars was originally wrong calling it a planet, but, then so were countless astronomers.

Sad hobby.. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raver31) Comments RE: Mandriva 2008.0 packages? http://osnews.com/thread?299610 http://osnews.com/thread?299610 or we just forgot to mention their packages or something... Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (superstoned) Comments RE[2]: Not Working! http://osnews.com/thread?299621 http://osnews.com/thread?299621 It definitely is a packaging problem with Kubuntu. It's just very annoying that they botched the packages. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jlacroix) Comments RE: Not Working! http://osnews.com/thread?299629 http://osnews.com/thread?299629 If you're talking about the apps in the "Favourites" tab, apparently the location of the KDE4 binaries was changed to /usr/lib/kde4/bin. Remove the apps from your "Favourites" tab and add them again and they should work fine. If it still doesn't work, delete ~/.kde4 (all your settings and things like ktorrent's torrents will be lost, though).

If you're using kdm-kde4 as well, you might want to edit /etc/init.d/kdm-kde4 and replace genkdmconf-kde4 with /usr/lib/kde4/bin/genkdmconf and make sure that /etc/X11/default-display-manager says "/usr/lib/kde4/bin/kdm".

Other than that, I found an annoying bug in Konqueror that asked me to save all links, even links to regular web pages. But it seems to be fixed in 4:4.0.1-0ubuntu2~gutsy1~ppa1 (released a couple of hours later).

Let's not forget this is really a packaging problem, and also that this isn't even an official Kubuntu repository. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fernandotcl) Comments RE[2]: Not Working! http://osnews.com/thread?299644 http://osnews.com/thread?299644 The Kubuntu logo is placed right on the Kicker menu. Looks official to me. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jlacroix) Comments RE[2]: Not Working! http://osnews.com/thread?299655 http://osnews.com/thread?299655
If it still doesn't work, delete ~/.kde4 (all your settings and things like ktorrent's torrents will be lost, though).

Which is why one should never even suggest this.

At most suggest to rename/move .kde4/share/config which at least keeps the user data in share/apps intact (Mails, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, etc.)

As a rule of thumb never suggest an option you wouldn't use yourself because of the potential consequences. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (anda_skoa) Comments RE[3]: Not Working! http://osnews.com/thread?299677 http://osnews.com/thread?299677
The Kubuntu logo is placed right on the Kicker menu. Looks official to me.

Well, adding unsigned launchpad repository sounds official to you?

From Kubuntu web site:
Add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main to your /etc/apt/sources.list
Install kde4-core, note that PPAs aren't authenticated so you will likely get a warning when installing


KDE4 will be officially in Hardy, it is "as is" in Gutsy. But it could be more emphasized and should not be advertised on Kubuntu front page, IMHO. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (joeprusa) Comments RE[2]: Poor Pluto http://osnews.com/thread?299704 http://osnews.com/thread?299704 It's a dwarf planet, which means it's big enough to be spherical, not orbiting a recognized planet, but hasn't cleared out all the objects in its orbit.

Depending on how technical you want to be, that also excludes Jupiter, Neptune, and the Earth... but anyway. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DigitalAxis) Comments RE[3]: Not Working! http://osnews.com/thread?299934 http://osnews.com/thread?299934 No. If you're scared about losing your data, use 3.5.8 or whatever your distro ships with. Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fernandotcl) Comments