KDE4 RC2 observations

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

A couple of comments/questions.

Obviously kde4 or its apps messed with ~/.kde (version 3.5.8).  I've always tested kde4 as a different user to avoid exactly this problem.  But to your point...hope this was an oversight.

I noticed that the directions for installing rc2 did not include the last paragraph that has been included on all prior pre-releases...

To run it as a full session install kdm-kde4 and copy /usr/lib/kde4/share/kde4/apps/kdm/sessions/kde.desktop to /usr/share/xsessions/kde4.desktop, edit the Name entry in kde4.desktop to be called "KDE 4", put the four export lines at the top of /usr/lib/kde4/bin/startkde and start a new session in KDM with KDE 4.

Was this an error of omission or is it truly no longer required in order to login to kde4 as a separate session.  Is the above paragraph applicable?

Is rc2 configurable?   (Esp.  plasma?)   How/where?  K-Menu customizations?

Documenation?

Paul

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Michael W. Holdeman" <lists at ptfd.org>
> Observations on the kde4 rc2 for kubuntu
> 
> I removed my kde4 rc1 installed files, then installed according to the web 
> page.
> 
> Upon loging in I was immediately impressed with the advancements, the "kicker" 
> replacement is polished and looks good. 
> The widgets now are moveable, and the pager one now works as expected. Battery 
> still shows no battery on my Dell D820?
> Most apps in the menu now started and worked fine, except anything requiring 
> su privilege, still does not accept the password. I had to open a konsole and 
> run them with kdesu.
> klipper now is docked where you would expect, and works as such.
> So far so good.
> 
> I then decided to install more apps with adept using -kde4 as the filter. I 
> installed all except the stuff I knew I did not want like strigi, kppp, kget 
> etc...
> All installed and a played around a bit. 
> Korganizer was still messing up on my old ical files, but better than before.
> Kmail good
> koffice2 seemed good. 
> Not sure the process of the menu and how the system adds apps, seems like 
> there were a lot of apps there, old, new etc... etc...
> 
> OK tried then to log back into kde-3.5.8 and errored on trash:/ and system:/.
> Kwin waas messed up, leaving all closed windows on the screen. Konqueror was 
> hosed. Several apps were just plain hosed and seemed to have been replaced by 
> kde4 apps?
> 
> I went to my rsnapshot dir and copyed the .kde from there into my .kde and all 
> was good again.uninstalled all -kde4 apps, along with the apps that the web 
> page said to install. 
> Then had to reinstall konqueror, kontact, kmail, kubuntu-desktop and a few 
> other's.
> 
> Don't know if this is intended or not, but this as difficult to repair. Thank 
> God for my rsnapshot setup!
> 
> Any other expeirences?
> 
> (Oh yea, google-desktop does not work with kde4)
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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