Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

Its hard to keep track you have kde356-2-final3 ?

Well its beta testing :)

OK lets do this one at a time

1)
Started OK... some minor hiccups due to speed, but that is to be expected (can't wait to try KDE on OS2008 :))

Me too, we are going to be overclocking this thing, the first startup is the slowest because it caches everything for the first time. Also Konqueror is set to preload 3, perhaps I can drop that down to 1???

Here is my reasoning I wait 2 minutes after startup of KDE at worst and I have KDE ready to go. This can switch back to hildon by logging out of KDE, but its not meant to quickly switch back and forth, so I figure a two minutes (just ran 1min 39 seconds)


2)
- Default theme wastes too much space in the border and title areas, but that is no biggie
I depends on what you want to display on the panel, I assume thats what you mean? Or do you mean the Icons are to big?

3)


- Certain programs (read: AbiWord) are not fully "in theme": the menus of AbiWord appear very hildonized-looking, and the icons and menus are waaay too large -- couldn't find a way of changing this

This actually is a straight compile of Abiword 2.2.3 its old but printing works with pictures, which was my main goal. I did not alter anything, the menus dont work unless you are in full screen, did you notice this?? I want to get a good word processor, but this is all I have for now :(


- Played around a bit, couldn't find any other major problems

Did you print anything, if you open Konqueror CUPS is bookmarked to setup printer

- Logged out OK
- Couldn't start "Configure printing" from the Hildon menu

This needs to be removed its a cups default, I will remove it.



Thank you thank you thank you, I want to get feedback. do you think the wallpapers should be removed for faster startup?? I liked them

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

1) I really want to overclock my N800 beyond 400 MHz ... but we really do need OS2008 for this :(

2) I meant the title bar and borders of each individual applications... I like small title bars/borders on desktop PCs, let alone on the IT.

3) I noticed the menus not appearing when I wasn't in fullscreen, but didn't think much about it :)

4) No printers here (and no WiFi either), so I will try that tomorrow at work (if I can)

5) When I clicked on "print" on Konqueror (just for the sheer pleasure of clicking "print" on the N800 :D) I got an error saying that it couldn't connect to CUPS. Is this to be expected? I did not set up CUPS in any way.

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

cupsd had to be launched first... although I do not think I rebooted since I installed KDE.

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

If you are having problems running cups on boot, and you are mounting /usr/local and booting from flash instead of booting from mmc/sd. It may be a problem with the libraries being available on boot.

make sure cups is starting after your mount of /usr/local

I would put in your mount script to run ldconfig right after the mount, and have it start sooner than cups.

Mount script for /usr/local something like this

fsck -y /dev/mmcblk1p2
mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /usr/local
ldconfig


Is there anything I could do to make it easier?

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

Aha... I'll package everything in a script. KDE is fun :D If only I could get to those buttons that appear below "screen level"!

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

Yeah, just drop it down to preload 1 instance. Otherwise, it's a bit of a waste of memory/swap on a device that's already limited enough. Even on desktops, 1 should be all you ever need.

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I love my 4 desktops, I run full screen apps on diff desktops and just tab between them with the home button. I think the konq could be dropped, but I am thinking two not one. Konqueror is used as the web browser, a file manager, and network file browser. But I guess would consider even one. As for the desktops though, 4 is coming with it.

Convince me I should only do one, I'll consider it

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What do you mean about the buttons, is that an 810 joke, or am I missing something?

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I was referring to the fact that some applications display non-resizable windows with buttons that appear "below" screen level; i.e., that cannot be reached in a screen 480px high.

EDIT: LOL, I just got the N810 "below screen level" reference :)