KDE 3.2.2 is Released

Monday, 19 April 2004  |  Skulow

The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.2, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.2 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2.1 and is available in 49 languages. Sources and contributed packages are linked on the KDE 3.2.2 info page.

Comments:

Slackware packages - JC - 2004-04-19

Sorry to the Slackware users. For the first time in more than 2 years, I can´t release binary packages. No computer, no internet access. no email, nothing. Hope it´s only temporary. Life can´t be always easy :)

Re: Slackware packages - Patrick Hanft - 2004-04-19

Ohh... I just complained *smilingsheepishly* on another site about not having Slackware packages. *sigh*. But thanks anyway for the great job you do with making the packages all the other times! It was one of the reasons for me to move to Slackware because of the great KDE binaries there usually are so soon for this great Linux distribution! *wonderingifIshouldjustwaitforpackagesorifIshouldlearnhowtobuildKDEfromCVS;)*

Re: Slackware packages - Fast_rizwaan - 2004-04-20

Hey JC, thanks for the KDE packages. Those packages of KDE which matter to me, were only (mostly) available for slackware. So, I got interested in checking KDE on slackware. Thank you for your painstaking efforts; I love slackware, which doesn't pollute pristine Look and Feel of KDE, GNome; like RH, and Mandrake. No offence to those distros intended.

Re: Slackware packages - Andy - 2004-04-20

What happened? Did you accidently find an error in M$ software and billiboys cleaners ... ehm ... lawyers confiscated your belongings? The fsf keeps a list of pros for this kind of emergency. Hope, they can help.

Re: Slackware packages - Pierry Ângelo Pereira - 2004-04-22

www.linuxpackages.net search --> kde; packages for slackware 9.1 - kde 3.2.2

Re: Slackware packages - Stephen - 2004-04-29

3.2.2 packages appear to be available in the slackware-current archives on slackware mirrors. Haven't tried them yet, will give them a shot (and report back). Stephen

Re: Slackware packages - Richie Carnes - 2004-05-03

I have installed the KDE 3.2 (slackware-current) packages. The results are very confusing, it's almost as if it breaks dependencies. I no longer have color in the konsole. I somehow have a crazy font error in konsole. And the sound seems to be messed up now. I think I'm going to just compile from src. ;) Richie PS I have tried the same approach on my workstation at work with the same result. I highly disrecommend this approach to people. Just either go get the CVS or just compile all the source. I think this would be the best way.

Slackware Packages? - Eduardo Sanchez - 2004-04-19

Any chance of having slackware packages? Thanks!

Thank Goodness for CVS! - David - 2004-04-19

With all these releases thank goodness I'm learning how to use CVS properly! A big thank you to all the people who put together the quality team document on building and using CVS. It really is invaluable!

bug fix? - Tomer - 2004-04-19

thanks.. but I hope the "kmail save attach. to remote url" and "form multipart/enctype"-bug are fixed in this release.

Re: bug fix? - Anonymous - 2004-04-20

Look up (your) bug report at http://bugs.kde.org if you want to know without upgrading.

low saxon - Bert - 2004-04-19

Plattdüütsch!

After a quick look at the changelog: - Carlo - 2004-04-19

No backported kate fixes?

Re: Kate fixes - m0ns00n - 2004-04-19

I hope so. I haven't been able to use Kate since 3.1.5 really. The layout is not remembered. People who use Kate knows :) And Quanta is dead slow, hope 3.2.2 fixes this. I use it at work, would be nice with a little speed up. I mean, slow on a 2.5 ghz! come one! A text editor? :) Anyhow, going to install it in a few days. Just have to make space for the puter to buzz in a dark room so I can sleep while it is compiling :D

Re: Kate fixes - ac - 2004-04-19

> The layout is not remembered. Is fixed in 3.2.2

Re: Kate fixes - Sponge - 2004-04-20

From the changelog: > performance improvement: parse the included files less often Not that I know how much faster it gets, haven't tried it.

Re: Kate fixes - Andras Mantia - 2004-04-20

Some Quanta slowness was fixed in 3.2.2, and it was reported that even an update of kdelibs only may help. See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79916 Andras

Re: Kate fixes - Carlo - 2004-04-22

Kate wasn't very usable in KDE 3.2.1 imho and with 3.2.2 it made worse. The file handling still sucks, when having all three "program start" options enabled, but now!? Have a look at this ~65kb png... Before someone starts to crab; I'll have a look at bugs.k.o.

BitTorrent? - Bart - 2004-04-19

Is it already available as .torrent?

Is KMail maintained? - anonymous - 2004-04-19

KMail has a large number of bugs in the tracking system, and this release has no bug fixes. Is KMail actively maintained?

Re: Is KMail maintained? - Amadeu - 2004-04-19

Are you kidding? Do you now the difference between writing a chanagelog and doing changes? The developers give you an app for free and just because they don't write a changelog you say the app is unmaintained? Kmail is one of the most vibrating KDE apps. http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cvs&w=2&r=1&s=kmail+branch&q=b KMail Branch Commits http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cvs&w=2&r=1&s=kmail&q=b KMail Commits The kde-cvs list is your friend.

Re: Is KMail maintained? - Alex - 2004-04-20

Yes, besides that, the changelogs for KDE releases usually only give you 3/4 of the changes and many times a lot less.

Re: Is KMail maintained? - Tukla Ratte - 2004-04-20

> Kmail is one of the most vibrating KDE apps. Sounds like it needs new sparkplugs.

Re: Is KMail maintained? - Ingo Klöcker - 2004-04-20

Well, I didn't add information about the bugs that were fixed to the changelog because I was busy fixing other bugs. After all the real changelog is anyway the CVS log. All you have to do is compare http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdepim/kmail/?only_with_tag=KDE_3_2_1_RELEASE and http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdepim/kmail/?only_with_tag=KDE_3_2_2_RELEASE

Still no search in KNotes? - Roland - 2004-04-19

I find it really strange that knotes gets loads of eye-candy (rich text, different colors, etc.) but the most important feature (I want to search text, how else am I ever going to find anything in my notes?) is still missing... Vote for: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76435

Re: Still no search in KNotes? - Anonymous - 2004-04-20

This is a bugfix release, so no new features.

Re: Still no search in KNotes? - Ingo Klöcker - 2004-04-20

You do realize that KDE 3.2.2 was a bug fix release, right? New features are not allowed in minor releases. Whether something is a bug fix or a new feature is sometimes a matter of opinion and therefore up to the developers. But "search text" is definitely a new feature.

Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - Blue - 2004-04-19

Is anyone else seeing duplicate icons in their Konq toolbars and menus? When I first fired 3.2.2 up, Konqueror had it's usual buttons, the logo, and then everything over again. Customizing the toolbars did not show the dupes. Removing the '<Merge>' entry fixed that, but I still have two clear location and go buttons in the location toolbar. Also, I have an additional 'Bookmarks' menu in the menubar, and the contents of the 'Go,' and 'Window' menus are duplicated. 'Tools' has 'Run Command,' 'Open Terminal,' and 'Find File' twice. Moved my .kde and .kderc away, but I still see it. Anyone else having this problem?

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - anonymous - 2004-04-19

Do you removed old KDE install, eg. /opt/kde, completely before updating?

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - Blue - 2004-04-20

I use the Debian packages, so all traces of the old packages' contents are gone. There are still a few 3.2.0 packages hanging around, though: quanta kscreensaver libkcddb vimpart None of these packages have 3.2.2 counterparts, but none of them should be affecting Konqueror's toolbar.

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - Xabier - 2004-04-20

I experienced the same problem updating from 3.1 to 3.2 with Woody Packages. I solved it, but now I have updated from 3.2 to 3.2.2 I am experiencing the same problem (also texts as "No Text" in the help menu of some aplications) I don't remember how to solve it. I think it was a problem with a important packages, such as kdelibs-data or kdebase, but after purgin all kde packages and removing /etc/kde3 and /usr/lib/kde3 the problem persists. Maybe there is a package I forgotten to --purge... Other problem is with KDM, it needs debconf >= 1.2.9 and the woody version is 1.0.32, but the packager haven't provided this version or he had an error compiling it with debconf 1.2.9. Can someone tell me how to solve this trouble? Thanks in advance.

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - Blue - 2004-04-21

An updated debconf package is available from http://www.backports.org/ - add the following to your apt.sources deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable debconf Then update and upgrade. As an aside, if you do any Debian development, you'll also need po-debconf, which can be accessed in the same way; just add 'po-' in front of 'debconf.' Still need help with the toolbar/menu stuff though. Anyone?

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - AvK - 2004-04-21

There seems to be missing the file /etc/kderc which is a symlink to /etc/kde3/system.kdeglobals. Create this symlink with "ln -s SOURCEFILE DESTFILE".

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - Xabier - 2004-04-22

Thanks. Yes, .kdrc is missing. I will create the symlink. Is this an error of the packager or an error in my installations?

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - Xabier - 2004-04-22

/etc/kde3/system.kdeglobals doesn't exist. I haven't find it in any package of kde. Thanks.

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - Blue - 2004-04-23

That did the trick, thank you very much.

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - Cirrus - 2004-04-25

So did you actually fix the toolbar/menu problem? If yes how? Cause the system.kdeglobals file doesn't exist. I copied the kdeglobals from my .kde, and symlinked but still the same. I'll also attach a snapshot for anyone who haven't seen this. I think this is a debian specific problem. If anyone has solved this can they please post a solution. Thanks Cirrus

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - David Faure - 2004-05-27

Talking to tackat, we found a workaround. ln -s /etc/kde3 /usr/share/config (the reason for the strange menus was that ui_standards.rc wasn't found) No idea how debian configures kdelibs, but if it doesn't tell it that the global config dir is /etc/kde3, then KDE looks in /usr/share/config, of course.

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - Tobias Niwi - 2004-04-21

A solution for KDE 3.2.0 was dpkg -i --force-confmiss /path/to/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.0-0woody1_all.deb But this doesn't solve the problem this time )-: Because of this I downgraded back to 3.2.0. And I'm really thinking about the possibility to switch from Debian "stable/backports" to Mandrake or Suse since the last Backports for KDE and Gnome made a lot of trouble on my system. I simply don't have the time to fix my system two or three times a month.

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - Xabier - 2004-04-22

Yes, I also have been thinking about changing to Suse, because I want a recent version of a desktop environment and I need so many backports and external packages that this couldn't be good for my system. Every time I upgrade an external package a problem happens.

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - chris - 2004-04-22

this is a debian packaing error , please ask on the debian list or the maintainer for a fix. perhaps try www.debianplanet.org its not a fault with anything in kde.

Re: Duplicated toolbar icons / menu entries? - tara stamp - 2005-11-29

hi i just wont to say that i agree with you and you are right.

Really NO Slackware packages???? - anonymous - 2004-04-20

My 2.4Ghz compiles now kdelibs around 1 hour and it feels he never ends... and this is not enough... many MBytes (GBytes?) waiting for compiling, kdebase etc... come on, P L E A S E!!

Re: Really NO Slackware packages???? - David - 2004-04-20

Steady on, it may take a few days. People have talked about moving away from Gentoo because it takes a day or two to get new KDE packages in Portage - in a free distribution. I mean - really?!

Re: Really NO Slackware packages???? - Andy - 2004-04-20

It took me about three hours to build KDE 3.2.2, including KOffice. But I did that in the same dir as 3.2.1 (which took around 4 hours), so I guess not everything was compiled again.

Re: Really NO Slackware packages???? - anonymous - 2004-04-20

4 hours? Hmmm, every evening one hour for compiling and friday it's KDE 3.2.2 time :-)

Will SuSE ship it? - Paul Koshevoy - 2004-04-20

I can't wait to upgrade to KDE 3.2. I'm running SuSE 8.2 Pro right now, and I haven't gone to the trouble of installing the unofficial KDE 3.2 packages due to distro upgrade concerns. Does anyone know which version of KDE 3.2 SuSE will ship in 9.1? Thank you, Paul. KDE 3.1.1 is great for me right now, I hope KDE 3.2 will be even better.

Re: Will SuSE ship it? - Hooded One - 2004-04-20

Most definitely. SuSE is the major KDE-centric distro. There's no way they're leaving out 3.2 3.2.1 is currently in the 9.1 release candidates and I'm pretty sure it will stick for the final. 3.2.2 and later updates will certainly still be available in the usual place. If you've never tried a system with kernel 2.6 and KDE 3.2 before, you're in for a rather pleasant shock in terms of speed, responsiveness, and general being-cool-ness.

Re: Will SuSE ship it? - Roland - 2004-04-20

The real question of course is will they ship 3.2.1 or 3.2.2...

Re: Will SuSE ship it? - Anonymous - 2004-04-20

Did you read the posting you're replying to? 3.2.1.

Re: Will SuSE ship it? - Rich Jones - 2004-04-20

I'm also running SuSE 8.2, and upgrading to 3.2.0 with the RPM's worked fine. Had to uninstall some stuff, but it was worth it.

Re: Security Alert !!! - Marc - 2004-04-20

> KDE 3.1.1 is great for me right now, I hope KDE 3.2 will be even better. ... I hope you had installed each of those security updates otherwise your OS is more vulnerable than a well patched WinMe. (Updating Suse 8.2 to KDE 3.2.2 is really no problem. Just add ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/yast-source or any other fast mirror to the installation sources, start Yast-Software-installation, select "zzz-all-packages", from the menu select "all packages -> update if newer version is available" and hit return.)

Re: Security Alert !!! - huu - 2004-04-21

> Updating Suse 8.2 to KDE 3.2.2 is really no problem. You're joking, right? Tried this on two or so machines running different flavors of ( previous) supplementary KDE and got stuck with gazillion dependency problems some of which look rather nasty. Sure, updating *stock* 8.2 is relatively painless, but who is running stock 8.2 anymore? Personally i think that these broken dependencies and lacking intelligent tools to solve them is one of the biggest linux drawbacks.

Re: Security Alert !!! - huu - 2004-04-21

> Updating Suse 8.2 to KDE 3.2.2 is really no problem. Just spent an hour resolving the dependencies and installation started. Surprisingly, yast (qt-ui) crashed during install and left system in non-gui mode. Now curses-yast is finishing the install, let's see how far it gets..

Re: Security Alert !!! - planetzappa - 2004-04-22

I ran into the same dependency hell when trying to upgrade my (stock!) SuSE 8.2 to 3.2.0 beta, back then... I completely freaked up my stock system and re-installed the distribution (oh well, good old Windoze skills necessary here...) Some time later i read somewhere that instead of trying the upgrade with a running KDE 3.x i should instead switch to single user mode and simply run rpm -Uvh *.rpm Didn't have the nerve and time yet to actually try this, though... Robert

Qt version? - Keith - 2004-04-20

Will KDE 3.2.2 work with QT 3.3.x? Or should I continue using QT 3.2.3 with it?

Re: Qt version? - Jared - 2004-04-20

Well, in Fedora Core 1, I had to upgrade to QT 3.3.1 before it would install several of the RPMs. There were a few other packages that I had to find for everything to install, but no problem (www.rpmfind.net).

Re: Qt version? - Anonymous - 2004-04-20

Perhaps some arrows in the K menu will be missing but it will work.

Worthy time to help KDE... - Alex - 2004-04-20

With the release of KDE 3.2 KDE has redefined the Linux desktop and brought it to an amazing state of qualtiy. 3.2.2 shows this to any skeptics. I think this is a time as great as any to donote to KDE either through your skills or money. KDE may be free in all ways, but it is not free to run and maintain. Hundreds of developers spend countless hours to bring KDE to the standard it has now come to. Free software is based on good will, so show your support and good will for a brighter future than we are seeing now. For a future without incredibly erosions of freedom, without DRM and without a monopoly that has 96% of the market in it's strangle hold. Help KDE: http://kde.org/support/ And check out my wishlist for a further explanation of the need for support: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63868

Re: Worthy time to help KDE... - gerd - 2004-04-20

With Low saxon support it will reach the heart of the whole frisian nation.

minor issues on SuSE 9.0 - jmk - 2004-04-20

Updated this to stock 9.0 - everything seems fine, but K Menu lacks first level of right arrows when opened ( so theres a piece missing from the menu ). Any ideas whats up with it?

Re: minor issues on SuSE 9.0 - Anonymous - 2004-04-20

It's a problem with Qt 3.3.x, turn off Quickstart Menu Items (set number to 0) and they should be back).

Re: minor issues on SuSE 9.0 - Anon - 2004-04-20

setting to 0 means what? graphical way is preferred.

Re: minor issues on SuSE 9.0 - Anonymous - 2004-04-20

It's in the panel configuration under Layout, tab Menus.

Re: minor issues on SuSE 9.0 - jmk - 2004-04-20

Thanks. That seems to solve it. Only problem being that this runs on a server with 10 or so users on it (with this being individual setting) :/. Oh well, otherwise its fine :)

Re: minor issues on SuSE 9.0 - Marc - 2004-04-20

> Only problem being that this runs on a server with 10 or so users > on it (with this being individual setting) :/ man bash

Re: minor issues on SuSE 9.0 - Anonymous - 2004-04-24

You could install a patched Qt 3.3.1 library (qt-copy/patches/0047-fix-kmenu-width.diff).

Re: minor issues on SuSE 9.0 - Anonymous - 2004-04-24

Or turn off the side image in the K menu, or turn off the menu titles (in kickerrc [menus] ShowMenuTitles=false) but keep the nude recent/most application section.

Battery monitor gone? - Boudewijn Rempt - 2004-04-20

I am fairly sure that I had a working battery monitor systray thingy before upgrading, but now it's gone... I'm running SuSE 9.0 and updated using apt-get. Before I start filing bug reports -- are there other people who have noticed this?

Re: Battery monitor gone? - cp - 2004-04-20

Me too. But I'm going to reboot and see if this problem persists.

Re: Battery monitor gone? - Boudewijn Rempt - 2004-04-20

Rebooting didn't help me...

Re: Battery monitor gone? - Hans Vaith - 2004-04-20

Mine is gone too (also using SuSE 9.0) No solution so far.

Re: Battery monitor gone? - Jean-François Lemaire - 2004-04-21

I had the same problem, after having updated through YaST. I then checked which packages were installed and kdeutils3-laptop-3.2.2-2 was not in the list of selected packages. I selected it in YaST and now everything is O.K.

Re: Battery monitor gone? - Boudewijn Rempt - 2004-04-21

Hm. I'm not using YaST -- I use apt-get for SUSE, and it appears that that package is already installed.

Re: Battery monitor gone? - Chris Papadopoulos - 2004-04-25

I updated to 3.2 too. It seems that acpi knows what's going on with the battery and so does the battery module in the control center (they show when it's charging etc). It just won't show the icon on the taskbar, no matter what.

Re: Battery monitor gone? - Jonas B. - 2004-05-19

This is a bug. There is workaround at http://guru.linuxbe.org/blog.php .

Re: Battery monitor gone? - B Welmers - 2005-04-26

Can somebody post this solution? I need it again and the given link is dead. (Now I have the same problems while upgrading tot KDE3.4)

Re: Battery monitor gone? - B Welmers - 2005-04-27

Today I found a backup DVD of a KDE install where this problem has been resolved. After a while I found the file that has been edited. The file /usr/kde3/share/services/kded/klaptopdaemon.desktop contains a line "X-KDE-Kded-autoload=false" It must be replaced by X-KDE-Kded-autoload=true" (/usr/kde3 is my installation dir of KDE, replace it by your own)

Re: Battery monitor gone? - Rob - 2004-09-28

I noticed that recently, when i upgraded kdeutils3-laptop_3.3.0-5. The old version 3.1 works fine. I think it is a bug of the new package :(

Well done... Thank you. - Jesper Juhl - 2004-04-20

A big Thank You to everyone who helped make this release happen. You are doing a fabulous job - keep up the good work.

Woody debs deps - Debian - 2004-04-20

Is it just me or do the Debian Woody debs have some weird dependencies? It screwed up my whole test system. From who are these "credativ" deps? I ended up having no KDM because it needs Debconf 1.2.9, Lots of packages working under 3.2.0 were removed, It installed X4.3. The menu's have double entries, the same with some toolbars. This was supposed to be just a minor update? Anyone had the same experience? Any clues if it's just my fault? Never had this experience before, most often it was just a smooth update.

Re: Woody debs deps - Anonymous - 2004-04-20

> From who are these "credativ" deps? Credativ. :-) For packager info I suggest to read the README.

Re: Woody debs deps - micha - 2004-04-22

I can confirm these problems. These packages conflict with openoffice.org1.1-woody packages aswell: kde-3.2.2 -> no more openoffice :(

Re: Woody debs deps - Fuhbar - 2004-04-22

You should use openoffice test packages, they are build with the correct fontconfig version

Re: Woody debs deps - VDB - 2004-04-22

It did screw up my box as well.

Re: Woody debs deps - Bit - 2004-04-22

Yes, I am experiencing the same problem. It seems that /etc/kderc has dissappeared and the file it points to (/etc/kde3/system.kdeglobals) has also dissappeared. I think that there are more missing files in /etc/kde3. The packager made a very bad job (since 3.2, debian packages hadn't been as good as 3.1.5 packages).

Re: Woody debs deps - Cirrus - 2004-04-25

Same problems here. The worst is probably the duplicate menus and toolbars randomly in some programs. The guy who did 3.1.x is apparently not going to be packaging any more (or something like that, correct me if i'm wrong). Anyway I hope some decent packages will come out soon. Other than that a few major bugs were fixed and changes that i wanted are there. Keep up the good bug fixing work. Cirrus

kdesu not working - David Hubner - 2004-04-20

There seems to be a typo in kdesu in the kdelibs-3.2.2 source. If kdesu does not except your root password.. 1. Go into kdelibs-3.2.2/kdesu 2. Openup su.cpp and goto line 81 3. uncomment args+= "-"; 4. make, make install

Re: kdesu not working - David Hubner - 2004-04-20

Opps i meant do a // comment not uncomment I'm tired.. :P

Re: kdesu not working - Anonymous - 2004-04-20

Please use http://bugs.kde.org

Re: kdesu not working - Waldo Bastian - 2004-04-22

Don't bother, already reported as http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78948

KDevelop not working on Fedora Core 1 - Trapanator - 2004-04-20

When I try to launch it, the welcome screen freezes at (this is the text belove the Kdevelop logo): "Adding the 'Open With...' option at menu" And I must kill the process everytime...

"Start New Session" on SuSE 9.0 - Jeremy Erickson - 2004-04-20

I just upgraded to KDE 3.2.2 on SuSE 9.0 Pro and the "Start New Session" option is no longer available on the KMenu, nor from the dialog provided by the KDE screen locker. Anyone know what's up? Is it a configuration problem, a lack of support in KDE, or a lack of support in the SuSE binaries? (I used the official update binaries as mirrored on the apt4rpm repository on ftp.gwdg.de).

Re: "Start New Session" on SuSE 9.0 - Derek Kite - 2004-04-21

This option is available if the Xservers file has multiple lines such as this: :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 :1 local@tty2 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 :2 local@tty3 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :2 vt9 Mine is in /usr/kde/cvs/share/config/kdm/Xservers, Gentoo, running cvs version. IOW, yours may be in a different place, even under /etc/X11... Probably the update put a new Xservers file that has only the first line. Derek

Re: "Start New Session" on SuSE 9.0 - Eric - 2004-04-25

Thanks Derek, I'm also using SuSE Linux 9.0 and that was also my problem. I just extended the config file: /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to contain the following lines and restarted the computer: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 :1 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt08 :2 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :2 vt09 :3 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :3 vt10 :4 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :4 vt11 :5 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :5 vt12 It was a bit confusing since an identically named file was also in KDE installation path, but maybe that was just a template, it's seems to be irrelevant. Anyway I'm back in business!

Is this all true? (Slackware packages available) - anonymous - 2004-04-21

ftp://ftp.linuxpackages.net/pub/Slackware-9.1/pcxz/kde/3.2.2 ftp://ftp.linuxpackages.net/pub/Slackware-9.1/pcxz/kde/3.2.2/READ.THIS Slackware packages now available. But if following is true, then KDE 3.2.2 seems to be a "little bit" untested: (and I stop compiling myself) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Problems KDE 3.2.2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ark don't open file .tar Kdesu don't function Kdesysguardd (daemon) don't compile ( I add to kdebase package version of 3.2.1 ) ..15 minutes of use :-( ..for my impression new patch is required ...I wait for this

Re: Is this all true? (Slackware packages available) - Anonymous - 2004-04-21

See <a href="http://www.kde.org/info/3.2.2.php"> http://www.kde.org/info/3.2.2.php</a>

Re: Is this all true? stop making packages i686!! - anonymous - 2004-04-23

Why is linuxpackages.net so hellbent on releaseing i686 packages?!? At least make some for i486 or i586 which is still a bit more common and compatible with many computers out there. I hate being like "yipee they released 'so and so' packages" then find out its blah-blah.i686.tgz!! URGHHH.

Not the best release - Martin - 2004-04-21

I'm usually very pleased with all the releases, but i'm very tempted this time to downgrade to 3.2.1... My first impressions are that my kmenu has resorted back to the bug from 3.2 where its too thin, and if the side image is not enabled its in the wrong place... ark doesn't open my archives, error forking something, "I can't fork a decompressor" (it always used to be able to i presume).. I can't start new sessions from the kmenu... and i have always had trouble trying to configure kdm, because as soon as i try to change the background, it no longer works at all, and all hidden users appear in the list.. odd.. and the background scrolls if i download a file to it because it often puts it off the screen..... I know i should report these bugs on bugs.kde.org.. i will.. most of them are there though already!

Re: Not the best release - cp - 2004-04-21

Personal preference, I guess. I like the new start-menu: gap between entry-name and arrow is narrower. See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79674

Re: Not the best release - James Richard Tyrer - 2004-04-21

There are still font related bugs in Qt, so I would suggest that if you are still having problems with the menu that it is related to your Qt version or your choice of font. I have Qt 3.3.1 and am using Arial MT (Type1) and I think that the menu is correct on my system. There are probably many other SCALABLE fonts which would work -- I would recommend against using bit mapped fonts with KDE with anything except for the default Konsole fonts. The font problems -- which are a Qt issue -- are one of the more serious unresolved bugs with KDE. -- JRT

Re: Not the best release - Anonymous - 2004-04-21

Wrong suggestion: Copy qpopupmenu.* of Qt 3.2.3 over the Qt 3.3.x versions and it works flawlessly with KDE 3.2.2.

Re: Not the best release - gimpel - 2004-04-22

grrr...i have exactly the same problem with ark (using the SuSE-supplementary rpm's) and i can't find the package ark is included in so i could try to compile it myself to figure out if it is a bug from kde itself or bad suse packages... does anyone know what package contains ark (i searched whole kde.org and didn't find it...) greets

Re: Not the best release - wilbert - 2004-04-23

Ark is in kdeutils

Re: Not the best release - Euman - 2004-04-27

I have the exact same issues w kde 3.2.2.

Re: Not the best release - Felix Boecker - 2004-04-27

I have the same problems with Ark although I have not had any of the other problems Martin describes. The rather simple workaround is to open the compressed archive in Konqueror and dragging the contents into another folder. This decompresses the archive (at least for me). So ark works, just not very well when called from Konqueror. I browsed through the 3.2.2 changelog and I couldn't find any changes the KDE team made that should have resulted in this problem. Perhaps there's more to it than we think?

Redhat 9 - Jared - 2004-04-21

Anyone know if the Fedora RPMs work with Redhat 9?? I've got a RH9 machine that I don't have time to upgrade to fedora, but I would like to keep up to date.

Re: Redhat 9 - masterx - 2004-04-21

==> ftp://apt.no.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat

Regression testing, testing, and TQM - James Richard Tyrer - 2004-04-21

Please note that (the related) bugs 79550, 79775, & 79713 have finally been fixed. But, not in time for the 3.2.2 release. This bug was a serious regression in Ark -- it would no longer extract a: "*.tar.tz" file. :-( It appears that it occurred because the fix for bug 78504 seriously broke Ark. This (the occurrence of a regression) appears to be a problem similar to bug 73379 which was not fixed before 3.2.0. The lession here is that regressions like these should not happen. To prevent them, more regression testing is needed. The best solution is TQM -- testing by the developers. Since these were serious regressions, even the most basic testing should have found them. I found them simply by using KDE. -- JRT

Re: Regression testing, testing, and TQM - wilbert - 2004-04-21

I agree. It would be nice if a kind of Errata could be provided for each release, with easy to apply patches to correct obvious mistakes and overseen regressions, such as the Ark and kdesu bugs in 3.2.2. I want to rebuild my gentoo KDE 3.2.2 with these bugs fixed, but I have a difficult time finding the needed patches/fixes.

Re: Regression testing, testing, and TQM - Anonymous - 2004-04-21

You mean like the "KDE 3.2.2 Info Page" linked in the story and which existed for every release since at least KDE 2.0?

Re: Regression testing, testing, and TQM - wilbert - 2004-04-21

Yes, sorry! :-) I just saw the corrections on the info page :oops:

Ark patches - anon - 2004-04-21

If you want a fully functional Ark again, just apply these two patches: http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdeutils/ark/tar.cpp.diff?r1=1.24.2.1&r 2=1.24.2.2&only_with_tag=KDE_3_2_BRANCH http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdeutils/ark/archiveformatinfo.cpp.diff ?r1=1.7.4.1&r2=1.7.4.2&only_with_tag=KDE_3_2_BRANCH

Re: Ark patches - Anonymous - 2004-04-21

Sure? archiveformatinfo.cpp.diff 1.7.4.1 has no KDE_3_2_2_RELEASE tag.

Re: Ark patches - anon - 2004-04-21

indeed, that one isn't needed if you have stock 3.2.2 sources...the first one is all that's needed - sorry!

Re: Ark patches - Anonymous - 2004-04-22

I rather wanted to point out that you need a diff from 1.7 to 1.7.4.2 to get the latest KDE_3_2_BRANCH version starting from KDE_3_2_2_RELEASE.

Re: Regression testing, testing, and TQM - Waldo Bastian - 2004-04-22

The problem with kdesu is that kdesu does "su - -c <command>" [1] instead of "su -c <command> -" [2]. Both version [1] and [2] work just fine here, but apparently there are versions of su out there where [1] doesn't work. So no, the most basic testing doesn't find that. Cheers, Waldo -- The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference between theory and practice.

Re: Regression testing, testing, and TQM - Ben Roe - 2004-04-23

Maybe automated testing would be best - using something like the XTest framework to generate the required X events. Use a script to compile and install a complete KDE and run through a bunch of tests - runnning konqueror, decompressing files, run some KDE apps. Then have it email the results to the developer. That way the developers can spend their time developing, and testing still gets done. Of course, somebody has to write the test framework!

Problem with Debian apt source - gaboo - 2004-04-23

Hi there. FTP.KDE.ORG> The size of Packages and Packages.gz files is 0 Kb. Empty... Please fix it.

Re: Problem with Debian apt source - Anonymous - 2004-04-23

Why don't you look into the README for the right address to complain?

Re: Problem with Debian apt source - gaboo - 2004-04-23

I use the right address... Until this morning i can get pkgs.

Re: Problem with Debian apt source - Anonymous - 2004-04-23

No, dot.kde.org is not the right place to report third party package problems.

Re: Problem with Debian apt source - Anonymous - 2004-04-24

The packages are pulled back, read the readme: "The current schedule is that the Debian backports will be fully public and operational by June 27th, 2004. Thank you for your understanding. -- Andreas Mueller <amu@linux.de> Fri Apr 23 11:31:22 CEST 2004"