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Subject:    Re: KDE 2 release date?
From:       Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook () arm ! com>
Date:       2000-03-04 21:21:19
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At 01:40 AM 3/1/00 , you wrote:
>The 2-28-2000 build was extremely clean and works on all distributions.
>Please let me know if you have any questions!

Don't know if you saw the msg on the kde list about missing libs, but I 
decided to plough on anyway (i.e. --nodeps it). I had some trouble then 
because I've an RH6 system with kde1 installed in /usr/bin, which meant 
that for ages I couldn't persuade any kde2 things to even try and run, but 
eventually I got it going.

Well, sort of. I have played a bit with a couple of apps -- got kwrite to 
start, played with konsole and kcontrol, I decided to see what else worked. 
Very few things, really: mostly KRun didn't find the executable, although 
no graphical message came up to say so -- I looked in the error log files.

I've installed in /opt/kde2, and all the kde1 things are in /usr/kde, which 
I think isn't being used; if I specifically reference an app 
(/opt/kde2/bin/app) it is there, and the path which startkde is started 
with includes /opt/kde2. Not sure what's happening at all here.

Anyway, I decided to see what the themes did: used kcontrol to change the 
theme to marble, applied it, and promptly everything dies... back to xdm 
login screen. The .xsession-error log (i.e. stdout from startkde) shows 
nothing particularly interesting, although there are lots of 'can't find 
this' or 'that failed' type messages for most apps, doing almost anything. 
Logging in again I have no panel at all; I do get some Templates, etc type 
icons, but double clicking doesn't help: the app starts and dies 
immediately. Right button click once brought up a menu with "New" on it, 
and I tried "folder", but that silently failed too.

Not sure what to do now, really: the bits that work look nice, but 
obviously something isn't right in my setup -- I have heard people say kde2 
is reasonably usable, and what I have now isn't -- but it's not at all 
obvious to me what that might be.

If you can help get things going, that's great, but if not perhaps I'll 
wait another month or so :-)

Thanks for the help so far, and good luck!

Ruth


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Ruth Ivimey-Cook       Senior Engineer        Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@arm.com
ARM Ltd       Firmware and Debugger Development     http://www.arm.com
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