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KDE 2.2.2
loopkin writes: "Seems that the last KDE 2 is out. KDE 2.2.2 is faster and more stable and secure than 2.2.1, as stated in the Changelog. You will appreciate the trick that makes the icons load 5% faster in particular. Announcement is here. Please use mirrors for download, but original FTP is here.
Note as well that maybe for the first time, there are _official_ RH packages for a _stable_ release (7.2)."
Yes, that's what I meant :)
I was doubting about it whilt typing it. Guess I did get it wrong then. hmm.
Well, don't worry about that. We can get you back before you leave. (Dr. Who)
Just get the latest kde rpms from the rawhide dir on the RedHat ftp. When attempting to install those you will be told which other packages to upgrade, and you can get those as well from there.
Phobos - Greek word for fear or flight
SuSE has already had these RPMs out for a couple of days. This has KDE 2.2.2 for SuSE the various SuSE versions on the various platforms.
Please note that these are not officially
They also have a similar service for Gnome.
As always, use the mirrors Luke...
Or install Debian, and do an apt-get.
Or install FreeBSD and install it from the ports, where it should appear within the next 3 or 4 days.
prelink works better (if your ld.so and binutils support it), and fixes the whole problem rather than just adding a workaround for the specific case of KDE.
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6 months ago I was telling people that linux desktop was about equivilent to win95, now I'd say win98. (as far as the applications available). I was using Mandrake 7.8 and upgraded through the web to 8.0 then 8.1. I bought Mandrake 8.1 last night, and it's so much better then the downloaded version. (I can use my network printer on mandrake, but can't on win98!)
If I didn't program for windows everyday, I'd take the linux challenge (use only linux for a month), and it would be no problem at all.
(using RH 7.2 packages - i don't know if they were objprelink-build - Bero, if you read me, how did u build those packages ?)
They aren't built with objprelink because I consider objprelink a crude hack.
prelink is a much nicer solution (it does prelinking for the whole system, not just the KDE libraries), and you can't use both at the same time.
No unusual tweaks applied to the packages... But they were built with a newer compiler (gcc 2.96-100), maybe Jakub added some optimizations on the compiler side, as well.
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You have the right idea for sure... just run WindowMaker, and if you want to run an occasional KDE or Gnome app, just run it. Forget about that "desktop" idiom B.S., that's just an over-the-hill paradigm that isn't worth the extra overhead to run.
I mean, I just got a 1.2 GHz Athlon box, and I have no intention of giving up my nice, barebones WM desktop. It's perfect.
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er, make sure you remove your 2.1 install FIRST ('rpm -qa | grep kde' to find them, then: 'rpm -e --nodeps rpmname.rpm' to remove each one)
The reason for this is that RedHat likes to put stuff in weird places - if you compile/install a straight KDE over the top you'll end up with a dodgy mismatch of components from each version - and itll be unstablle.
(this is what happened to me anyways...)
It's not particularly interesting - they've just centralised the icon database into a server, so that all the applications don't perform the same searches of (possibly very long and crowded on the system of someone who likes eye-candy) icon directories - now the server only has to walk the search path once, and applications ask it for the icons.
Choice of masters is not freedom.
I just installed 2.2.2, and there is no real noticeable speed difference in my opinion. Icons 5% faster? Maybe, but if KDE 2.2.1 was too slow to be usable on your system, KDE 2.2.2 will be as well.
Spontaneously, I don't see any extra requirements you'd need to update on 7.1, aside from those provided on ftp.kde.org (libxml2, libxslt, qt).
;)
But 7.1 was LOOONG ago, so don't expect me to remember everything about it.
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I'd recommend installing the KDE RPMs, if you are using distro that supports RPMs. Basically, as root, RPMs can be installed by using
./configure with the --disable-debug option. Read the README file that come with the source for a better description of how to compile.
rpm -ivh [filename]
Then download and compile the kdelibs source, using
Among other things, this recompiles the aRts sounds server library, which was terribly slow and made sounds skip a lot (for me) in the RPM version of 2.2.1. Now I can play mp3s without skipping! Konqueror now also seems to run as fast as IE5.5 does on my Windows partition.
Be prepared, though, for the compile - on my 233MMX, it took roughly 6 hours.
The reason you're perceiving 7.2 as less stable is that we're releasing more errata packages these days - which does not necessarily mean the initial packages were all that bad.
KDE 2.2-* (as shipped with 7.2) wasn't bad, and nevertheless we'll release the 2.2.2 packages in errata as soon as QA approved them.
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You can't directly install the Redhat 7.2 KDE 2.2.2 rpms. Redhat 7.2 comes with libxsl 1.0.1 and KDE 2.2.2 requires libxsl 1.0.7. There has been no offical update of libxsl. But you an go get the libxsl 1.0.7 rpm from rawhide and it also requires a new libxml2 rpm from rawhide.
Havoc Penington, the bane of my Linux desktop.
No. Actually the 5% speedup is caused by explicitly telling the Qt load routine the image type (i.e. png or xpm), so it doesn't have to find out itself. The icon server is under development.
For a laptop that doesn't natively support suspend-to-disk, I would highly suggest trying out the Software Suspend patch that comes with FOLK. This works like Windows2000/XP's "Hibernate" feature, where the contents of memory are dumped to disk, the computer is turned off, and upon booting up again, the memory dump is loaded back into memory and everything comes back exactly as it was when you turned the computer off. This cuts down drastically on boot time, and works fairly well.
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Simply skipping the "guessing the image format" code of QImage::QImage(), passing the name of the image format, since we know it from the icon's filename extension.
Nothing spectacular, sorry.
The rest of the fixes are much more important IMHO, dunno why everyone's picking on that one.
If you're going to use Crossover in the Konqueror browser, make sure you do the following first. This was a major paino de asso for me, because for a moment I forgot that Konqueror Plugin Associations != KFM File Associations.
If Quicktime isn't in your "Video" list, click the "Add" button under the list. Enter Quicktime for the name, and add the following extensions to the "Filename Patterns" list:
Then click "Add" in the Application Preference Order, and select "QuickTime Player" from the Crossover->Wine->Programs->QuickTime folder. Make sure you choose the one with the little Quicktime icon next to it, and not the document with the question mark. Don't ask me why there's two. :P Then follow the steps above to make sure it'll work properly in Konqueror browser windows.