[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.3 First Test Results

[Martin Wilke]

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Howdy Hannes,

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:43:17PM +0200, Hannes wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> sorry I didn't participate in the CFT, but maybe my notes will help 
> anyway (or you can help me ;) )!
> 
> 1) Thanks for the very quick release! I remember the old days where 
> FreeBSD could be weeks behind, now FreeBSD is more uptodate than most 
> Linux-Distros :)
> 
> 2) The release seems very polished, a lot of little things and bugfixes 
> really make it feel good!
> 
> The issues I encountered (note that I used packages where available):
> 
> 1) Many settings got lost on upgrade, and some are broken. I had this 
> with previous releases as well. E.g. in some apps settings for custom 
> toolbar are not applied (they show correctly in the config-dialog but 
> the defaults are shown in the app). Also no way to change these settings 
> (the app always show default setup). Only way to "reset" this is to 
> delete config-files which I rather would not.
> 
> 2) The Widget used in SystemSettings and for all config-dialogs 
> (compareable to tab-view) has no icons.
> 
> I have attaches to screenshots, showing the problems.
> 

The Icon problem was reported few days/weeks ago,

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2009-August/006227.html

maybe it help you also.

> 
> 3) No video with phonon. I already replaced the Qt-Phonon with KDE-
> Phonon and installed the xine-plugin which is detected correctly. Sound 
> works, but video doesnt. Dragon-Player just shows busy cursor when 
> trying to play a video. HTML5-Sound in Arora works, though which is 
> already pretty cool.
> 

have you all dependency on phonon rebuilded?

> 4) Kmail-performance seems even worse than before: slow scrolling, slow 
> loading of dirs, very slow loading of E-Mails with picture attachments. 
> This was similar before...
> 

Sorry can't say something to kmail. 
> 
> Thanks for your help and your work. Please don't see my reporting these 
> issues as complaining, I thankful for all the time you put into kde-
> freebsd!
> 

Thanks for your Feedback.

- - Martin

> Regards,
> Hannes 
> 
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