First thoughts on KDE4.2... lots of bugs...

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Sex 13 Fev 2009, Craig White escreveu:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:42 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:19 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > I'm finding a lot of bugs in KDE4.2
> > >
> > > 1) KDE asks for root permission when I open a folder with Dolphin
> > > from a folderview.
> > >
> > > 2) Kstart gets messed up when I go from classical mode to the
> > > kickoff mode.  Half the kickoff menu extends below the bottom of
> > > my display. The Kstart widget icon gets big when I am done.
> > >
> > > 3) I've crashed plasma twice and I get errors when I start it
> > > from time to time.
> > >
> > > 4) I crashed one of my panels when I tried to rearrange the icons
> > > in it. Now I can't add a Konsole icon to it.
> > >
> > > 5) I get funky flashing menus in applications from time to time.
> > >
> > > 6) My display goes funky during boot up.  It starts good but then
> > > displays parts of old windows then goes black (or blue) for a
> > > long time. After a while it goes normal, except that the desktop
> > > background doesn't display on my second monitor.
> > >
> > > I'm not saying KDE4.2 is bad, just that its not entirely stable.
> > > Hopefully there will be an update in the near future.  After all,
> > > it is a .0 release.
> >
> > 7) The analog clock widget on my desktop disappears from time to
> > time. The clock hands remain, but the rest goes invisible.  If I
> > click around, it redraws.
>
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> I've had none of those problems but I don't use folder view or
> classic menus nor do I add launcher buttons to panel. I do however
> use the analog clock and no issues with that. I have a desktop (uses
> nv video) and a laptop (uses intel video) and it sounds as if your
> problems might be caused by some 3rd party video driver.
>
> I too am not crazy about the new blue panel (apparently unchangeable)
> and for some strange reason, the 'Application Launcher' widget in my
> panel on my laptop since upgrade is now a blank document with a
> question mark and removing the widget and re-adding doesn't fix that
> - it looks tacky.

I remember reading about someone with a similar problem with the device 
notifier icon, and it was solved installing oxygen scalable icon theme.

[]'s
Marcelo