I've been reading a lot of threads in this list of users complaining about KDE 4.5, (specially of 4.5.3) Well, I've been using KDE 4.5 for some time now (even before it was officially on F13) and I do not have any problems you're talking about, follow my advice in order to solve this errors and tell me if KDE has a different behavior:
1.- Update your system with a "sudo yum -y update"
2.- Reset your KDE Settings by erasing the ".kde" folder inside your home directory (it's hidden)
3.- Turn Off Desktop Effects
4.- Reboot the PC
5.- With the new clean setting of KDE now you can work without errors, feel free to customize it again
Greetings.
Manuel Escudero wrote:
I've been reading a lot of threads in this list of users complaining about KDE 4.5, (specially of 4.5.3) Well, I've been using KDE 4.5 for some time now (even before it was officially on F13) and I do not have any problems you're talking about, follow my advice in order to solve this errors and tell me if KDE has a different behavior:
1.- Update your system with a "sudo yum -y update"
2.- Reset your KDE Settings by erasing the ".kde" folder inside your home directory (it's hidden)
3.- Turn Off Desktop Effects
4.- Reboot the PC
5.- With the new clean setting of KDE now you can work without errors, feel free to customize it again
Not bad, except for #2, that's pretty harsh, only to be done as a very last resort.
-- Rex
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
Not bad, except for #2, that's pretty harsh, only to be done as a very last resort.
Agreed - at least move it out of the way instead of deleting it. Then you can at least get your old settings back if you need to..
-c
2010/11/9 Chris Smart mail@christophersmart.com
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
Not bad, except for #2, that's pretty harsh, only to be done as a very
last
resort.
Agreed - at least move it out of the way instead of deleting it. Then you can at least get your old settings back if you need to..
-c
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Actually, what does the magic is reseting the old settings, pretty "extreme" yeah, but it works. I'm pretty sure that anyone of the users that are having some wierd KDE problems can solve them this way.
@Chris: Unfortunately, Moving the folder and then placing it in the same site is was before do not work if you want to get your settings back. Once the ".kde" folder is erased or moved, it doesn't matter if you return it to the place it was before, KDE "refreshes" itself and having the old folder back just creates more errors.
Hope someone can be helped by my five-step guide.
Hi Manuel,
I experience many problems which are not: - Caused by using KWin's composition manager - By broken configuration - DBus / X11 / Any other component which is the root of all evil
I file every bug and every crash (yes, there are still quite a few crahers), however it looks like the kde-team is simply overwhelmed. For years now their bug-count only knows one way - up - and when looking how many bugs were fixed e.g. in 4.5.3 I don't think the situation will improve.
When 4.5.5 will be almost ok, 4.6 will appear and the game will start again. Instead of playing arround with semantic desktop stuff, OpenGL toy stuff for plasma or social network integration, I wish they could focus completly on stability/performance/resource-consumption.
However profiling doesn't seem to be fun for most guys (especially when you're resource constrained), so no - I don't think this will ever happen soon.
- Clemens
2010/11/10 Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy@gmail.com
Hi Manuel,
I experience many problems which are not:
- Caused by using KWin's composition manager
- By broken configuration
- DBus / X11 / Any other component which is the root of all evil
I file every bug and every crash (yes, there are still quite a few crahers), however it looks like the kde-team is simply overwhelmed. For years now their bug-count only knows one way - up - and when looking how many bugs were fixed e.g. in 4.5.3 I don't think the situation will improve.
When 4.5.5 will be almost ok, 4.6 will appear and the game will start again. Instead of playing arround with semantic desktop stuff, OpenGL toy stuff for plasma or social network integration, I wish they could focus completly on stability/performance/resource-consumption.
However profiling doesn't seem to be fun for most guys (especially when you're resource constrained), so no - I don't think this will ever happen soon.
- Clemens
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@Clemens: Sorry to hear that. To be honest, I never experienced that kind of annoying stuff in KDE, once I filed a bug but the problem solved with an update, so I never had a bad experience with the K... When I updated to 4.5 trough unnofficial testing repositories I had some crashes in dolphin, but some days later, after an update everything worked flawlessly and until now, things keep that way.
Sometimes is not KDE fault, Sometimes some apps just crash because they have bugs and they're not related with KDE (like Kmess a little time ago in 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 versions) and in my experience, KDE has solved a lot of bugs trough releases, it's a shame that yours are not solved yet.
Have you tried with another desktop enviroment? Give Gnome-Shell a try, it's quite good. Also some computers just aren't ready for KDE, if you have something less that 1GB of RAM you might feel KDE a little Slow. Fortunately, there are a lot of Desktop Enviroments for Linux
Have a Nice Day! :)