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Good decision
by Grósz Dániel on Saturday 01/Dec/2007, @13:18

I think this was a good decision. I checked out openSUSE packages yesterday and it still has many issues.

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Re: Good decision
by Bernhard on Sunday 02/Dec/2007, @01:07

the opensuse packages are really out of date... the panel isn't working correctly, the systray also not, on my system it has no background (yes i've cleared my .kde4 folder) ... i would recommend to try the KDE4 vm image to get a good overview of the progress KDE4 is making. You'll be suprised!

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Re: Good decision
by Stefan on Sunday 02/Dec/2007, @06:41

I'm using the KDE 4 repo for openSUSE (and get updates nearly every day), and all of these issues are fixed. I sometimes switch my session from KDE 3 to 4 by pkilling Kdesktop, replacing KWin3 with KWin4, and starting Plasma. I'm not pkilling Kicker, this causes issues with the tray icons of KDE 3 apps, but beyond that KDE 4 is working quite well.

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Re: Good decision
by Stefan on Sunday 02/Dec/2007, @08:38

Someone asked me for the repo URL. It is

http://software.opensuse.org/KDE:/KDE4/openSUSE_10.3/

The current version is 3.96.2-8.2 (compared to the old-as-the-hills 3.93.0.svn712059-6 in the default repo)

I think this is the right time to give a big virtual hug to the packagers at openSUSE. You deliver me a great Linux experience!

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Re: Good decision
by Bobby on Sunday 02/Dec/2007, @13:04

The service is very good but some of the packages don't work properly.

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Re: Good decision
by Bobby on Sunday 02/Dec/2007, @13:01

I have the same problems that you mentioned.

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Re: Good decision
by Bobby on Sunday 02/Dec/2007, @02:33

I think the same. Quality should be the highest priority and it would be very sad if kDE shouldn't live up to it'S name by releasing an unfinished "product".
The openSuse packages have some issuses that are related to SuSE and not necessarrily KDE.

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Re: Good decision
by Anonymous on Sunday 02/Dec/2007, @08:50

> The openSuse packages have some issuses that are related to SuSE and not necessarrily KDE.

Like?

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Re: Good decision
by Bobby on Sunday 02/Dec/2007, @12:01

There are missing plasmoids, my background was missing for almost a week before it reappeared after a few updates and some things don't work as well as those that are compiled from source. Sometimes KDE4 on openSuse doesn't even start after an update so one has to wait for the next update etc..

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Re: Good decision
by Anonymous on Monday 03/Dec/2007, @06:40

There are rather few plasmoids contained in kdebase, for more plasmoids you have to install the extragear-plasma and playground-base packages.

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Re: Good decision
by Bobby on Tuesday 04/Dec/2007, @03:39

I installed the plasma-extragear but there were still missing plasmoids. However I didn't install the playgroud-base packages, now I followed your advise and those plasmoids that I missed are there again. Thanks :)

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