KDE 4.1.1

[Paul Kaplan]

On Wednesday 10 September 2008 04:12:35 Alain Muls wrote:

> - I like the 'finder' way of dolphin where the subsequent directories are
> listed in columns. However, when you want to go back up several dirs (so
> several columns) to select another dir, than dolphin crashes. Are there
> others who observe this behavoiur before I enter a bug for that?
It's been stable for me, although I don't use this config.  I found that after 
upgrading from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1, it was necessary to rename my ~/.kde4 
directory, let it rebuild, and then copy over any application specific configs 
that I was too lazy to rebuild.

> - I do not know whether kubuntu has a package for the plasmoids or how to
> compile myself these plasmoids (which packages needed). Can you give me a
> pointer to these instructions?
Down load the source file
Then
 # tar -xvzf <plasmoid>
 # cd <plasmoid directory>
 # mkdir build
 # cd build
 # cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..
 # make
 # make install
It should appear in the Add Widgets dialog.
For some apps (not plasmoids), I've had to run sudo make install,

make sure you install kdebin-workspace-dev, gcc, and g++.  If you get any 
errors during compiling, you can usually google the error text and quickly find 
which additional package you'll need to install.

> - the 3.5.x  applet for managing the battery (define hibernation or
> shutdown at low battery) of my laptop is missing in 4.1, is there an
> equivalent or should I install the 3.5.x applet and use it?
powerdevil (see above)

> - kontact can take a lot of time to update its screen when fetching mail.
> Is this normal?
I haven't noticed, but see my first comment

> - konqueror is unable to auto detect the proxy settings as firefox does.
> How come, I thought konqueror was the 'killer app' of KDE?
Haven't tried yet.