[kde-freebsd] Konqueror Unusable

[David Naylor]

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 20:30:35 Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 May 2009 09:50:25 am David Naylor wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've installed KDE4 from ports over the weekend and strangely Konqueror
> > doesn't work properly.
> >
> > First was that the mouse middle click didn't open the link in a new tab
> > (or do anything).  I solved that by disabling gestures for Konqueror.
> >
> > Second is I cannot type in text boxes within Konqueror, the location bar
> > at the top works however after making a search at www.google.com the text
> > box at the top doesn't respond (i.e. to refine the search).
> >
> > This problem also appears then visiting bugs.kde.org, I'm unable to type
> > in the text boxes there.
>
> I had problems with text not appearing for 8-10 seconds. I usually had 2 or
> 3 konsole sessions on my desktop and one would be really sluggish and the
> other wouldn't. The big problem for me was after a few hours I couldn't
> select k-menu to logoff.

This is not the case for me since some text boxes work, even in a different 
tab when this symptom appears.  

> > Any suggestions?
>
> I dropped back to kde-3 because I had to know if it was kde-4, x-windows,
> or my new hardware. After dropping back to kde-3 everything worked and has
> continued to work. With the exception of the kde-3 packages, which were
> built using another system that had problems with kde-4, the system was
> reinstalled using the packages built by the system while kde-4 was
> installed. FWIW, dbus and hald were left running after kde-3 was installed.

Hopefully KDE 4.3 will do right by you.  I know KDE 4 can reveal many bugs...

Thanks for the reply
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