KDE 2.2 Ships (Visit an FTP Server Near You)

It seems I have some terrible configuration problem. Konqueror crashes on almost any site. Even on slashdot , even though I am sure Konq was tested on it :). It says when it dies:

kdecore(KLibLoader): WARNING: library=kjs_html: file=/opt/kde2.2/lib/kde2/kjshtml.la :/opt/kde2.2/lib/libkjs.so.1 :undefined symbol : _Q23KJS9ObjectImp.Info
KCrash: crashing ...

Is libkjs.so.1 somehow related to javascript ?
Also, it takes forever for Noatun to load a short list of names of mp3 from the directory. Everything was compiled from sources on patched RH6.2 with gcc2.95.2, qt2.3.1 with openssl-0.9.6b, lesstif-0.93.0 and pcre-3.4 added.
Anyone run into anything similar ? Any ideas ?

Hmm... I have been hoping to see some added flexibility in the KHTML component regarding middle mouse button-pasted URLs. For example selecting a whole row in the terminal window by triple clicking will include a trailing newline character that confuses KHTML and the URL will not open properly when pasted to a Konqueror window... =(

If possbile without serious side-effects, it would be most useful to see a "guessing" algorithm for these pasted URLs as well, for example "www.foo.com" without the protocol prefix would ideally be assumed to be "http://www.foo.com/" and so on.

Maybe in the next versions... =8-) Keep up the excellent work!

Hola!!!

Mi pc es una pentium200 y con KDE va bien, estuve casi una semana compilando KDE 2.2beta1 y cuando lo observé parecia que estaba soñando, desde el principio cuando salio el configurador de kde quede perplejo de tal kalidad grafika (K!!!) Micro$oft Window$ XP queda en la basura (creo que es mucho para el ) una sugerencia pongan los RPMS de RedHat (rpm4 y 3)

Bye...

I just installed the RPMs for SuSE 6.4. Upon trying to launch KDE 2.2 via the new KDM I just find /var/log/messages complaining about not being able to execute /usr/X11R6/lib/xdm/Xstartup and ../Xsetup.
And indeed, my installation of SuSE 6.4 (which I deem to be pretty much standard) misses these scripts.
Switching back to KDE 2.1.0 and it's KDM I find myself even unable to start fvwm2, at least as a non-root user.
I can hardly imagine that a distro of KDE 2.2 explicitly packaged for SuSE 6.4 should make false assumptions about the underlying OS. So what did I do wrong? Oh yes, I started SuSEConfig, but I think from this day on I will refrain from doing so.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,

Olaf

Does anybody know of someone, or has anyone tried the opjprelink with FreeBSD, or where I can find information about it working or not.

Thanks

--Reggie

I just installed KDE 2.2. It was virtually a no-brainer from RPMS on RedHat 7.1. I'm impressed.

Thank you all for your hard work. KDE is a fine environment. Stable, clean, fast, pretty. I think I could even get my wife to use it ;-)

This is enough to make an old C hack like me want to contribute to KDE 2.3...

First let me say that I really appreciate all the hard work and quality of the KDE programmers, KDE2.2 is very impressive.

I'm having trouble with konqueror, sometimes it won't start. If i kill kded then it starts...Restarting kded gives a fatal DCOP communication problem. I had the problem with mandrake 8 and rpms, so I installed from source and the problem is still there.
All source components installed except kdeadmin, gives an error can't find lbz2, but that component doesn't look essential (?)
Andy ideas ??

thanks Andy

I did an apt-get install and installed KDE (debian is sweet) but my true type fonts don't show up as an option in kde, they work fine in Mozilla, and in all other X apps. Did I miss something??

Thanks to KDE team, nice work!

here is a sample order of rpm install I used in Red Hat 7.1:

qt-2.3.1-3.i386.rpm
fam-2.6.4-9.i386.rpm
libxml2-2.4.1-2.i386.rpm
libxslt-1.0.1-3.i386.rpm
kdesdk-2.2-1.i386.rpm
pcre-3.4-2.i386.rpm (--force,--nodeps)
kdelibs-2.2-5.i386.rpm (--force,--nodeps)
libogg-1.0rc2-1.i386.rpm
libvorbis-1.0rc2-1.i386.rpm
libao-0.8.0-1.i386.rpm
popt-1.6.3-0.91.i386.rpm
nscd-2.2.4-5.i386.rpm
libmng-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm
openssl096-0.9.6-6.i386.rpm
arts-2.2-5.i386.rpm (--nodeps)
kdelibs-sound-2.2-5.i386.rpm
openssl-0.9.6b-4.i3
kdepim-2.2-1.i386.rpm86.rpm
qt-Xt-2.3.1-3.i386.rpm
krb5-libs-1.2.2-12.i386.rpm (--force,--nodeps)
kdebase-2.2-3.i386.rpm
kdegraphics-2.2-1.i386.rpm
kdenetwork-2.2-3.i386.rpm
kdeutils-2.2-2.i386.rpm
kdeartwork-2.2-1.i386.rpm
kdeaddons-konqueror-2.2-2.i386.rpm
SDL-1.2.2-2.i386.rpm
xinetd-2.3.0-6.i386.rpm
kdeaddons-kicker-2.2-2.i386.rpm
kdeaddons-knewsticker-2.2-2.i386.rpm

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best,
Yuri

Hello !

I have installed KDE2.2 (great!) but I still have some problems.

1. Sound : the sound server doesn't work fine. When KDE starts, during the 'Loading Window Manager' phase, it pauses some seconds and then it pops up a message , 'Sound server fatal error, cpu overload, aborting'. After that I have a crash of Knotify (if useful, I can send you the stack trace). Noatun doesn't play , it tries to launch the sound server, doesn't succed and crashes.
I have compiled KDE with support for oss and nas, without alsa (maybe a mistake ?). The sound is compiled into the kernel 2.4.5 (it is not a module).
What's strange that all non-kde sound applications perform correctly : gqmpeg, aviplay, realplay...

2. konqueror https does not work. I have compiled kde with openssl 0.9.6 support, I can see all the modules listed in Settings/SSL, but in Setting/OpenSSL it asks me for the path to open ssl (shared library). I have only the .a version of libssl. I have tried to convert it to .so (gcc -shared libssl.a -o libssl.so) but this solution doesn't work. Should I recompile to obtain a .so version ? When connection to a secure server, konqueror tells me that it cannot connect to the proxy server. Netscape works fine.

3. When I lock the screen , I cannot reenter anymore. It tells me 'Password fail' (or something like that), and I have to kill the X server. I am sure that I am typing correctly.

4. Konqueror terminal emulation doesn't display correctly (in fact does not clear correctly). Any ideas (its a great add-on and I would like to use it). The same is true for the kdevelop konsole.

5. Does konqueror support dynamic html ? Nothing works at www.dynamicdrive.com . Is it a problem of identification or dhtml is not implemented ?

6. PS/PDF viewer doesn't work. When I try to open a file (from konqueror or from File/Open) it tells me : 'Error openning file /path/to/file/file.pdf). No such file or directory. Success'. Acroread has no problem reading it.

7. ViewFilter refuses to appear in konqueror main toolbar.

8. Copy/Paste does not work with jbuilder4.0. Also if numlock is on, double click doesn't work anymore inside jbuilder. If I put it off, everything goes fine. I had the same problem with KDE2.1.1

9. When I execute a program from konqueror using CTRL+E (Tools/Execute shell command), if it has a large output, finally it will crash. For example, try 'make'. Also the scrollbar remains up during command execution, and I cannot see the last output.

10. And, finally, is there a possibility to set a proxy for kdict ?

I think that's all for the moment. Beside these (small) problems, I tell you that I am impressed by the great leap forward from KDE2.1.1 to KDE2.2 Just waiting for KDE3

Thanks,
Florin

Some urls which do not work well with konqueror :

1. news.bbc.co.uk . Normally, this site shows the latest news in the up left corner of the browser. Konqueror shows only the word 'Latest'.

2. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-341072.html?tag=rltdnws

This address blocks in nsplugin. Oh, no !

3. This address do not allow me to continue after completing the form.
http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/dklx130/dklx130-p

One Katastroph :
- Kate was an editor I was waiting for. Alas, it is bugged :
-- A very irritating and ridiculous bug : Task bar always appears on top, with text. It is impossible to keep it in vertical and with icons only
-- A big bug caused I lost a big file... It's easy to reproduce (perhaps there is a simpler way) :
--- put on the destop a copy of a big file
--- modify it with Kate and save it
--- exit Kate
--- rename the file
--- open the file in Kate : there is only 4 ou 5 lines, all the text is lost
OK, it was not easy to find, because the trouble exists only when the file is on the desktop... But many users like to have some important text files directly on the desktop. It is the worse bug I have never seen in KDE...

Troubles that I succeed to fix :
- bad fonts, in menus, Konqui... 3 times I have to update font parameters... Now it seems stable...
- lost favicons. Now good, after removing $HOME/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/faviconrc
- all icons of destop aligned on the left side

Troubles I didn't succed to fix :
- applets cannot stay on Kicker when the bar is vertical, so I put it horizontal
- KNewsTicker don't launch Konqueror, so I now not use this program
- Quanta + crashes when exiting (and it is impossible to save the taskbars configuration - in 2.1.1 too)

Old troubles always present in the new version :
- After installation, some Konqueror functionnalities are unavalable (some ones would say it is normal, I feel abnormal that only a minority of end users can implement these functions, Konqueror is for anybody, no ?)
-- Flash (I spent many time to fix it in the old version, and now I have to do it again...)
-- Java
-- Local Network
- in Konqueror it is impossible to display (in an editor) the source of a page, when this page is in a frame (with mouse right button) (excepted by doing many clicks with "Open with...")

Old troubles now fixed :
- in Konqui, it is now possible to put the bookmark toolbar beside the URL toolbar (only if the bookmark toolbar is narrow...)
- In Kicker, child panels now are well memorized

Very good stuff (for my use, of course) :
- Launcher and taskbar applets in Kicker
- "Stop animation" in Konqui (I hope a "Stop sound" or "Never sound" in the next version...)
- CD-Audio services in Konqueror
- Print preview and PDF printer

Good stuff :
- extended bar in Konqui
- better display, better speed in Khtml (but still don't work...)
- Automatic Preview in "Open file" windows
- View filter in Konqui
- many good little improvements, like the "initial level" in KSirtet. I enjoy when I feel that developpers like to regularly improve their program...

Some things I still don't understand :
- KDict
- PIM

And, of course, some improvements I don't use (for example group similar tasks in toolbar, I need to see the favicons ;-)... And the virtual desktops minimize the number of tasks per desktop...)

I hope, now, that it is finished for bad things and that I have many new good ones to discover... Happily I have not the troubles of Florin (sound, PDF....).

I am not glad, but I am happy to see it's going in a good direction of consistent improvements. Congratulations !

Cada vez que sale una version de kde ya sea alpha, beta o estable voy corriendo al ftp y me la bajo para probarla pero es que cada vez se me hace mas dificil la instalacion.Con la beta1 ya tuve algunos problemillas y ahora con la 2.2 definitiva ni te cuento.No hay problema, despues de forzar un par de paquetes y no satisfacer un par de dependencias ya ta instalada, claro esta q hay algunas cosas que no funcionan correctamente.
A pesar de todo es el escritorio que mas me gusta y que utilizo normalmente.

Buen trabajo

I installed KDE 2.2 on SuSE 7.2; however, now I have only one choice when I try to select different fonts. Noteworthy, when I log in as root I do not have this problem.

How can I fix this issue?

Thanks

Your problem sounds like my problem. Because root has access to all the fonts, but no other users do-- I think that something is messed up with the file permissions.

thanks,

It's been more than a month since my NT is broken, but still I don't miss it.
And now that KDE 2.2 is out, I'm thinking of deleting my NTFS.
I compiled it from soure tarballs and got many features I need: https, netscape plugin, cookie management, java applet, unicode (in konqueror).
Font AA with xfree 4.1.0 works fine.
Konsole+zsh made me rarely use konqueror as file manager.
For this time I'll stick with gvim than kate, it got better syntax highlighting, opens gzipped and bzipped files transparently (Or maybe I can do that too with kate ?)
But I think I end up with broken arts, each time arts apps executed, it always ends up with SIGABRT and this:
anyref.cc:49: void ::Arts::AnyRefHelperStartup::startup(): Assertion `anyRefHelper == 0' failed.
I even chmod 000 knotify (I've turned off system notification but still knotify is launched), the same with noatun.
And, I compiled kdelibs with alsa support, but I don't see alsa option in sound server setting. It's the same when I compiled with gcc 2.96 or egcs 1.1.2+objprelink.
Any suggestions ?
It doesn't bother me though, I can still use xmms, timidity, realplayer and kwintv as long as it doesn't use arts.

One thing that has been getting on my nerves for a while is the need to go to other sites to see nice screenshots showing off KDE. Why is it the screenshots section of the KDE site are always out of date? You should post a new set of pictures for each release, then link to old pictures. Otherwise, people coming to the site having never used KDE are seeing outdated pictures lacking many of the newer features, and that's never good.

Now, first, yes, all you Debian users are superior (make you all feel better now? hehe). But look, after scouring through many of the posts on this topic, I must say 2 things:

1) why, oh why were the RPM's for RedHat 7.x built under rawhide? It makes no sense. How many of the average users who would want KDE 2.2 are bound to be using a beta release of RedHat Linux? Not many. And certainly not me. I like my server to be as stable as possible thank you very much. But I do expect one thing from RedHat (whom yes, I actually do go out and buy CD's from, well, did for 6.1 and 7.1)... please continue to support the current non-beta distrib, and don't focus all of your energy/manpower on the upcoming, not-yet-stable one. Argh!

2) while I realize that it's definately not up to the KDE folks to package their desktop for all the distribs... it does reflect very poorly on 'em when distribs have lousy packages that don't install. While some slick installer (aka the ximian one, even though I kinda don't like that) would be totally sweet... at least do some quality control over the packages that you get. It looks very bad for KDE when I download RedHat 7.x RPM's that refuse to work w/o tons of silly dependancies for a not-outta-beta version of RedHat. A simple requirement to the packagers to make sure it works on the latest STABLE release of their distribution would be fantabulous. :)

However, after a LOT of frustration, and then some luck (thanx to Ranger Rick for building actual 7.1 packages) I got KDE 2.2 on my RedHat 7.1 system... and while there are some minor issues, overall it's a definite improvement over 2.1... thanx guys!

-r-

After installing KDE 2.2 everytime I restart linux I need to reconfigure my sound sound card and re-start the sound server in order to have the sound work. How can I fix this issue? Thanks, Robert

Well, at the 2.1 release I complained about a showstopper: Kicker's childpanels don't show up at login, have to launch Kasbar to show it. It didn't get better with 2.1.1. Now with 2.2 Kicker's childpanels show up but at what cost ? Kicker crashes so often it's a real shame ! Kicker is one of the most important parts of KDE, and I find it really disappointing that it's such a nuisance.

Not only does Kicker crash extremely often, it also has refresh/display problems when I (re-)start it: I've installed the Acqua theme, and all I see from Kicker is a nice blue bar with a gradient to cyan. All applets and icons only show up when I get my mouse over them.

The big problem is not me, I use KDE since 1.x, but the newbies: what does a newbie do if his Kicker/Taskbar vanishes repeatedly ? In the worst case, he'll delete the Linux partition. Kicker/Taskbar are more important to the user than any other programm, IMHO.

I think what the KDE-Project is missing is Quality Assurance. The first start of KDE 2.2 cleaned my desktop, all my links are gone, and the Kicker problems drive me nuts

But kudos go the Konquerer/KHTML teams, which did a good job, IMHO. No crash so far, but still some Java problems. Also all other applications seem to run just fine (e.g. KMail), which makes the Kicker disaster even bigger, IMHO.