Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

use kpager/

utilities/desktop/Desktop Pager

You can drag the window in the pager, grab it and move it up to reach the buttons..

Not optimal, but workable!!:D

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

I'll try that later on. In the meantime, I launched KDE and did a soft power-off of my N800 while KDE was starting... and when I went to use it after about 20 mins, everything had started OK... except for Klauncher -- which meant that the system was useless. Weird problem. I'll check for reproducibility.

EDIT: Hahaha I can print!

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

Installed it the day before yesterday, haven't had a proper play of it yet but - initial thoughts:

1) Wow :) it's KDE on my lickle IT!
2) Goto 1)
3) Initial splashscreen showing KDE starting occasionally turns black [i.e. not visible] couple of touches on the screen flashes it occasionally.
4) It's pretty slow, here's hoping the N800 can be overclocked through software!
5) It's a pretty huge tar. I had to run tar several times (6 or 7 times) because tar itself kept crashing (read - X-term window disappears without any error shown.) This was the tar with long path support (and -j) from Fannoush's site afaik - have you got a better/more stable tar build?

Opinions:
1) Can you get this up on a repository? Is it difficult to package up the contents in a deb? I'm not sure if the process of untarring the contents replaces system files or not but if not - this may well be an easy thing to do.
2) Can we have a base KDE install with no applications whatsoever?
3) If yes to both above - add applications as separate repository deb files.
4) Wallpapers are lovely - but bulky and the device runs slow enough as it is without them. Again - separate installable deb for themes/papers would be a nice feature.

I can see now exactly why Nokia pushed Hildon onto the ITT. KDE - whilst fabulous - is a little kludgy to use on an ITT (no offence penguinbait.) I love the option of another Windowmanager and it's definitely staying on my device :)


CUPS menu entry under hildon doesn't work (you've acknowledged that.)

Will update more when I use it more!

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

Just loaded it again and started playing with screensavers, specifically Phosphor (one of my faves.)

Got a /bin/sh xscreensaver-text: can not locate program.
Sure enough - it references Perl..from a /scratchbox/ directory!
I installed Perl, edited the paths and tried again...
"Can't locate diagnostics.pm in .... "


Gah..damn it :)

What I tend to do is have Phosphor scroll text from syslog, or even irc/pigin in realtime :)

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

Hmmm... smplayer crashed and burnt, my N800 switched off and now I logged on to KDE but the desktop is not showing :S

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

That is just the power management system on the N800 switching the screen off :)

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

The number of preloaded instances of Konqueror doesn't affect the number of desktops you have. If you have save memory when possible enabled (the default), all instances of Konqueror are only ONE process anyways (regardless of how many Konqueror windows are open or what they are doing). If that's enabled, then you have multiple Konquerors doing nothing but taking up memory and never being used.

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

Hmmm: Konqueror said it could not start the cookie service... any clues?

EDIT: Leaving KDE running idly on my N800 always leads to a reboot of the system after a few (say, 30) minutes (I believe I have no virtual memory enabled).

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

Could you be more specific. #1 reason I have found for system turning off when running KDE, is that the battery goes dead and you dont see its about to happen, I really need to find a battery monitor.

smplayer crashed and burnt? I use xv and gst and give 2mb cache

Please try to be as specific as possible when reporting any problems.

Re: KDE v2 Beta testing
 

Yes screen saver is all goofed up, they can be started through kdesktop-lock --nolock