From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 3:47:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FC4137B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 03:47:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2450 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2000 12:47:24 +0100 Received: from bb-62-5-7-17.bb.tninet.se (HELO marbsd.tninet.se) (62.5.7.17) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 29 Oct 2000 12:47:24 +0100 From: Mark Rowlands Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 12:42:44 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Siegbert Baude References: <20001027192703.874.qmail@web3304.mail.yahoo.com> <39FB3AB1.C9638FEF@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <39FB3AB1.C9638FEF@gmx.de> Subject: Re: KDE2 experiences MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00102912424401.00307@marbsd.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 28 October 2000 22:44, Siegbert Baude wrote: > Hi Nate, > just to add my experiences, > > > Bugs. On startup, artsd does not start successfully. > > On my system this works for some boots, but not for all. Is there maybe > some sleep during the initialisation scripts too short or missing? > > > Kaiman crashes when trying to load mp3 files, rather, > > I get an error that says "artsd not started". > > But if not always at launch automatically, I always succeeded in starting > artsd by hand. For Kaiman Iīm just compiling it (I suppose itīs in > kdemultimedia2 ?) I will add my experience, when itīs done. > > > Second > > kwrited does not start successfully and I get a crash > > panel. Third, konsole does not start and I get a > > crash panel. > > This is true for me only, if I launch X by kdm. If I do startx from the > command line, those points work fine. Somebody can imagine, what is causing > this behaviour? I will have a close look on my start scripts later on. > > > Trying to start the embedded konsole in > > konqueror crashes konqueror. > > Only the konsole crashes here, either X started with kdm or startx. > Konqueror lives on. > > > Fourth, konqueror does > > not handle javascript correctly, and yes I did enable > > it. > > Even worse: I didnīt enable it, but it executes some code, e.g. > automatically opening new windows. Donīt check out the following link, one > very brave guy posted here in his signature, because it will open new > windows until death of your browser at least (also konqueror killed my X, > when I switched to a terminal to stop it with a kill command.) > www.nul.cjb.net . (Worse than any XXX-site I ever happened to be flooded by > cosmic circumstances ;-) ) > > > Kpm the gtop like app for kde does not get > > compiled. So the process monitor applet does not > > work. > > In which tarball is this? kdeutil? Didnīt install this until now. > > > Konqueror does not load all images all the time. > > DId you compile QT with GIF-support? This is non-default because of the GIF > patent problems. > > > When quitting from the KOShell without saving > > something, it crashes. It still cannot create devices > > like the cd; keeps giving false error of bad > > permissions. > > If not saving, KOShell aks three times instead of only once, but doesnīt > crash here. Also it is able to read files from CD. What exactly do you mean > with "create devices"? > > On the kde homepage I read about imap support, but kmail only offers me > local mbox oder pop3. Where must I look for imap support? Or is this > another application? > > Hope to read more stuff about this, to be able to check whether I have > misconfigured something or weīre facing common problems. > > kdm seems to be kind of small showstopper, but launched by startx I faced > no crashes of any application so far (except the above mentioned javascript > problem with konqueror, which cost one X session). > > If we sorted out misconfigurations, whom should we report the errors? Port > maintainer or kde directly? Has anybody tried, if those errors exist in the > Linux version also? What is the correct discussion list for kde related > problems? > I reported the konsole / kwrite problem to submit@bugs.kde.org and got a reply from the port maintainer. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message