{"id":215,"date":"2009-05-29T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=215"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:27","slug":"kde-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"KDE 4.2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, I made the upgrade to KDE 4.2<\/span> from 3.5<\/span>. It was made available in Debian’s<\/span> Unstable branch so I figured “why not?”<\/p>\n

Why not, indeed?<\/p>\n

Well, for starters, I can’t figure out how to make it react to audio CDs in the CD drive. KDE 3.5<\/span> offered a dialog where I could choose what to do with the damned thing. With this one, it’s beyond<\/span> me; nothing happens. I’ve toyed around in the Settings, but to no avail. I’ve googled around. I can’t make it work.<\/p>\n

Just now, I received an email with a MS word attachment, a .doc<\/span> file. KMail<\/span> offered Kate<\/span> as the default choice, a bloody text editor, but the thing is that not too long ago, KMail<\/span> knew that OpenOffice<\/span> works for anything with that suffix, and furthermore, KDE<\/span> knows<\/span>, from what I can see in the File Associations<\/span> settings, that OpenOffice<\/span> is the right application to use. But it doesn’t. It won’t.<\/p>\n

The refurbished Kicker<\/span> menu gets stuck on the desktop after I click it, until I click on it somewhere near the Search<\/span> edit box. On my laptop, the task bar (or whatever they want to call it, these days, never remembers how wide it should be if I use the laptop on an external screen (with a different resolution) in addition to the built-in one. For some reason, something switched the sound settings on the Audigy card to the Digital output after I upgraded to a 2.6.29 kernel, without telling me, so I went through hell to get my sound back, before I discovered the switch (that, by the way, is not available on every mixer there is) that needed a click.<\/p>\n

Or all those settings that used to require a root password, to change how KDM<\/span> behaves. Or whatever. Lots of things have gone wrong with the KDE<\/span> upgrade and I don’t know how to fix them, not without some surfing on the net, and I can’t be bothered. I think of myself as a power user, I have used computers in various forms since the late seventies and Unix in a number of incarnations through the years, but surely it shouldn’t be like this?<\/p>\n

And no, I don’t want to switch to Gnome<\/span> because I hate it, I think it treats me lika an idiot, but maybe I need to? What say you? I don’t want to spend all my free time on the bloody Internets, trying to find the answers to each and every little problem there is.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, I made the upgrade to KDE 4.2 from 3.5. It was made available in Debian’s Unstable branch so I figured “why not?” Why not, indeed? Well, for starters, I can’t figure out how to make it react to audio CDs in the CD drive. KDE 3.5 offered a dialog where I could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,26,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}