KDE 4.3 for Pardus 2009

[bubbel]

Hello together,

about KDE 4.3 I asked in the Pardus-devel-mailinglist.

Look please here

Greetings
bubbel

[Lisa]

Hi bubbel,

I normally do not have test repository included in my repository servers, but I have for the past couple of months as I am curious to see if the problem I am having with, what my husband calls, "video buffer trash" at boot up of the three recent kernel updates (latest one in test 30.9-128).  I am still getting the  few seconds of distorted graphics, but, I see I am now using KDE 4.3.2.  So, this is fun new ground to explore.  The only drawback is that I have to click on each selection of the Kickoff Launcher Menu, instead of using hover to go to the next branching drop down selections. 

And, Network Manager icon is a round sheep and not a square sheep.    I say this because the red X for Network Manager is always there because I use dial-up and don't use Network Manager, but the red X makes it look like the eye of a ewe. 

Regards, Lisa Marie

[atolboo]

A request to test this bugfix for upgrading to KDE 4.3.3. in Package-manager.
Have a look in Comment #83 for instructions.

__NOTE THAT__ this is not the PROPER and the PERMANENT solution for fixing the
problem. The problem will be fixed in the pisi package soon, what I want from
you is to test whether the new manager.py fixes it or not.

Any other people's feedback will also be appreciated.

DO NOT TEST THIS ON YOUR MAIN SYSTEM !!!!!!!       

[Lisa]

Thank you atolboo!  When experimental KDE 4.3.3 came out in test repositories a few days ago, I tried to install it and console pisi would not do it, and I ended up messing up my install (I foolishly removed some major parts of the system) and that is why I recently re-installed.

The good news is this turned out to be a good thing for me, because the newer kernel upgrade offered in regular repositories- 2.6.30.9-128, has given me no video buffer trash at Grub boot splash/ start of X session.  That was bothering me to no end trying to figure out what was causing it.  I'm so glad it is solved. 

Good point to others wanting to try 4.3.3 KDE version from test repositories - they don't call it experimental for nothing. 
Lisa Marie