KDE 3.1rc6: The Final Candidate?

KDE 3.1rc6, which most likely will be the final KDE 3.1 release candidate (where have I heard that before?), is now
available for
download
. It incorporates all of the
security fixes from the security audit that delayed the release
of KDE 3.1
. KDE 3.1 is scheduled for packaging on January 13th, so
your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to run this release through
its paces to find any show-stoppers. To help compile it you might check
out Konstruct, a build system
which helps you to install KDE releases - it has been updated today for
the rc6 release. While its compiling you might hop
over to the draft
KDE 3.1 Requirements
page and notify me of any omissions or mistakes.

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Comments

by Amit Shah (not verified)

As someone (anonymous) posted above:

dcop ksmserver default saveCurrentSession

It didn't work for someone on Solaris, though.

by anonymouss (not verified)

I noticed in previous versions of KDE (2 something?), when logging out of KDE,
the "confirm logout" dialog used to have a checkbox to cause the current session to be saved and restored when next starting KDE. Since then (kde 3), that feature is gone. Why?

I would like to be able to save my session sometimes, but not always, and not have to manually choose another option to save my session, besides the "logout" option. Why was the "save session" checkbox in the logout dialog feature removed? Was it simply overlooked when developing KDE 3? It's a useful feature and IMO should be added again. Also useful would be if the checkbox would remember its previous state. i.e. if I check the box one time when logging out, the next time I log out, the checkbox is by default checked. If I leave the box unchecked, the next time I log out, it is by default unchecked.

I would highly appreciate seeing this feature again in a soon-to-come version of KDE.

by Dean Brunson (not verified)

Omitting the "save session" checkbox in the logout dialog box has been an aggravation for some time. I'd also like to see it fixed. I'd like to see it just as described in the previous post:

"save my session sometimes, but not always, and not have to manually choose another option... the checkbox would remember its previous state. i.e. if I check the box one time when logging out, the next time I log out, the checkbox is by default checked. If I leave the box unchecked, the next time I log out, it is by default unchecked."

by Adrian (not verified)

well we'll see next week :)

by Zvjer (not verified)

hehehehehehehehehe

by nick (not verified)

=) 15 jan..mmm

by Anonymous (not verified)

why i cannot resize the "Find file" window? i have a 1024x768 desktop this window i much larger! (i have Kde3.1 Rc5 compiled for Mdk9.. but this also appen whit the Kde3.0)

Compliments for the good work an sorry for my horrible english!

I'm having problems building KDE with Konstruct:

make[5]: Entering directory `/mnt/spool/usr/tla/build/konstruct/apps/kcpuload/work/kcpuload-1.99/doc/en'
/home/tla/kde3.1-rc6/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
index.docbook:8: error: failed to load external entity "dtd/kdex.dtd"

I've read around and found that libxml2 ver 2.4.26 introduced this problem, but also that it was fixed in later versions. My libxml2 version is 2.5.0...

The really strange thing is, all of the documentation upto this point has built successfully. I left the build running overnight, and when I came back it had stopped with the above error. But now when I go back into docs it's already built and attempt to rebuild them, that fails too... I've reinstalled libxml2{,-dev} to no avail. Any suggestions?

I was having this problem too with the KDE 3.1 source, except it happened in the kdeedu docs. I think Konstruct was using the wrong meinproc (or rather, it didn't build its own), so I had to do a few things by hand:

- Change the DTD in each index.docbook from V1.1//EN to V1.0//EN

- If the app's name isn't there already, add it to /usr/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/entities/general.entities

- Run "meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 index.docbook" by hand in each directory that Konstruct's make fails in.

There's probably a better way to do it, but this worked for me.

Hope that helps,
Charlie

I had this problem with KDE3.2 also.

First off, thatnks to Charlie for the initial pointer. Running the meinproc command manually as you suggested fixed things up.

Had a little trouble figuring this out initially. This may be obvious to some but hopefully it'll help out a few. For anyone else having this issue just before all the xml errors you'll see the following lines;

make[6]: Entering directory `/home/unifex/src/konstruct/apps/koffice/work/koffice-1.3/doc/koshell'
/usr/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
index.docbook:8: I/O error : failed to load external entity "dtd/kdex.dtd"

What you need to do is cd to the dir in the final make[6] line and then run the meinproc command by hand. You might as well open a new shell and do it from there also. You'll be doing this a few times. After each continue the make process until you get another.

The thing I don't get is that it appears the command is actually being executed by the script. Why doesn't it work there?

Regards,
Gold.
http://www.babel.com.au/gold/

The directories below are those that I've had to do this in.
konstruct/apps/koffice/work/koffice-1.3/doc/kugar
konstruct/apps/koffice/work/koffice-1.3/doc/kword
konstruct/apps/koffice/work/koffice-1.3/doc/koffice
konstruct/apps/koffice/work/koffice-1.3/doc/koshell
konstruct/apps/koffice/work/koffice-1.3/doc/kspread
konstruct/apps/koffice/work/koffice-1.3/doc/kchart
konstruct/apps/koffice/work/koffice-1.3/doc/kpresenter
konstruct/apps/koffice/work/koffice-1.3/doc/thesaurus
konstruct/apps/koffice/work/koffice-1.3/doc/kformula

> - If the app's name isn't there already, add it
> to /usr/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/entities/general.entities

How should it be added? Which syntax? On my system that file
already lists kivio, for example:

Kivio">

TIA,
Marco

I Have exactly the same problem with Konstruct for the last beta of KDE where building the doc of KOffice 1.2.94.

Does anyone have a solution for this ? I'm completly stucked...