Installed the new KDE 2.2 final last night. It took me seven hours to get the rpm's from sourceforge, but once I had them things went quickly. No major problems, I just had to hunt down a few oddball dependencies from the mandrake 8 cds and one from the cooker. Kdegraphics now insists on an installation of sane, libsane and sane-backend even if you have no scanner attached - weird! KDE 2.1.x worked fine without them. Other things that it needed were apm and libpcre. It's probably too early to give a final opinion, but everything in the new KDE seems a little ... slow. I know that's subjective, no benchmarks, but I seem to be waiting a couple of seconds for apps like kamail, which used to flash onto the screen instantly. Hopefully there will be optimisations in subsequent revisions. Apart from that, at first things seemed odd, but after restarting X, everything worked fine. If you like KDE and/or KDE apps, it's more of the same. If you detest KDE and everything it stands for, well, it's more of the same ... I installed it mainly for the apps, I use xfce as my wm. Tip: If you're on a modem and you're not interested in compiling KDE apps, don't worry about d/ling the devel packages. I installed fine without any of them. And you can always go get them later when the /. effect on sourceforge has subsided. On a different note, a few days ago all koffice components mysteriously stopped working. Here's the error msg: michel 11:54:49 ~ Command? >kword Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0". koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check your installation ! "Check my installation for what, you dumb machine?" Everything I can think of to check is there. I even uninstalled and reinstalled koffice. koshell comes up, but without any components (Kword, Killustrator etc) in it. Will this automagically be fixed when the latest koffice is released in a few weeks time, or should I do something else? Slaughter a goat in sacrifice to the great god Mimetype, maybe? TIA Michel -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC double-blind experiment, n: An experiment in which the chief researcher believes he is fooling both the subject and the lab assistant. Often accompanied by a strong belief in the tooth fairy.
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