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[Joel Oliver]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>  Can you describe "buggy"? Thanks. 
>
>  Buggy as in no sound
> >  Many times, playing with the
> > compositing settings in kde4 has locked my out of a usable desktop
> > requiring me to get on the terminal to fix it.
>
>  Really? Please elaborate, this sounds like a serious bug and I cannot
>  reproduce it. I need clear reproduction instructions.

OK, I went into the desktop settings and where the compositing settings 
were IIRC there was 'sync to blank' amd various settings like motion 
blur...  Click around in there and BAM instant black screen.  A 
CTRL-Backspace won't help. Shutdown and restart doesn't help because the 
'bad setting' is saved.  The easiest way was just to dump the .kde 
directory for me and restart KDM.  I also elaborate in this being in 4.0 
/ 4.1 in hardy or intrepid and whether they fixed it or not is not my 
concern.  I could reproduce it any time of the day at the time but never 
filed bug reports.  Why should bug reports be filed on blatently ovious 
problems.  I would have spent days documenting the bugs, and around that 
time posting a KDE4 bug on launchpad would've had you tarred and 
feathered, although it was their idea to quickly include KDE4 as the 
default.  This actually turned me off using kde which I have used for 
many years.  I had to figure out a way to move my custom servicemenus to 
gnomes nautilus preferences manager....  It wasn't fun but I couldn't 
use KDE 4 in it's earliest releases, but I never had a choice unless I 
switched to debian.

The umm.... Dragonplayer or whatever just didn't work well or at all and 
vlc and other arts apps worked well but some caused phonon to pop up a 
waning about missing a sound server....  I don't know, I member going 
into the systems settings/ sound/ and selecting the NVIDIA sound devices 
back (Even a reboot fixed it) but the phonon crashed bs always kept 
popping up.

Again this is 4.1.   I had better results on other peoples computers but 
I could easily reproduce them on mine.  Whether they are fixed now or 
not I don't care as I'm using gnome at the moment.



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