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Also Yakuake
by Leo S on Friday 18/Jan/2008, @20:32

Thanks for that Eike. For a few weeks I had to live without it as 2.8 crashed in KDE4.0, but now 2.9 beta is in Debian experimental and I have my Yakuake back! What a great app that is, and I haven't seen any bugs yet.

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Re: Also Yakuake
by Eike Hein on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @06:05

Odd, though - I used the 2.8.x codebase in KDE 4 for quite a bit of time, and it shouldn't have nor did it crash here :-). Anyhow, a native KDE 4 codebase is a better fit of course. Glad you like it! :)

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Re: Also Yakuake
by Leo S on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @10:11

Yeah I don't know what was going on. But it immediately crashed on start with 3 machines.. They were all running debian unstable though.
The only issue I have with Yakuake 2.9 is that it takes a while (~0.5 second) to appear when I hit F12 (even with zero animation time). But that's an issue with KWin I think, because I only see it when I turn compositing on.

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Re: Also Yakuake
by Eike Hein on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @11:07

There's also a known speed problem between Qt 4 and nVidia's proprietary graphics driver's XRender implementation, especially when using non-scalable bitmap fonts in Konsole's terminal widgets (which are also used in Yakuake). Check out the KDE4FAQ file I put in the tarball, there's a bit about that in there :).

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Re: Also Yakuake
by T. J. Brumfield on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @06:48

This is one of my favorite KDE apps! Thanks a whole bunch!

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Re: Also Yakuake
by Stefan on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @15:00

Yakuake did, for me, never crash in a KDE4 session. The only issue I had is that it was looking quite odd if console transparency was enabled without a running kdesktop instance (meaning that the blinking caret stayed there and filled the console white; fortunately I can type blind).

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Re: Also Yakuake
by Eike Hein on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @15:11

At least as far as Yakuake's UI elements are concerned, this is something that 2.8.1 (the new KDE 3 release released alongside the KDE 4 version, and probably the last KDE 3 release ever) actually fixes as well by checking for whether kdesktop is present and falling back to a configurable solid BG color in the event that it isn't - also relevant for non-KDE users. In the KDE 4 version the situation is different because the pseudo-translucency support is gone in favor of XComposite translucency (which is toggleable as well, however).

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Re: Also Yakuake
by Vide on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @07:09

Question: will/has Yakuake configurable tab labels just like Konsole4? I mean, with variables like hostname, user etc.

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Re: Also Yakuake
by Eike Hein on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @11:27

Yep, it does have those.

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Re: Also Yakuake
by Vide on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @04:10

Great! It's one of my personal killer features in Konsole4, and I'm a yakuake freak, so... :D
Great job again, yakuake is a godsend for every unix sysadmin out there :)

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