How is KDE4 working in updates-testing ?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 15:22 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 August 2009 14:42:20 Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I'm not seeing such problems here.  Have you tried re-starting plasma? 
> > > In a konsole
> > >
> > > kquitapp plasma &
> > > plasma
> >
> > That fixes it but the problems return after a while.
> >
> > This appears to be part of the problem:
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202199
> >
> There doesn't seem any clear indication of where problems like this really do 
> come from.  I haven't seen any of the things mentioned in that thread (as far 
> as I can see from a quick skim through).  I do have the problem of firefox 
> apparently shutting down, in that it disappears from both screen and taskbar, 
> but stays active behind the scenes, quickly building up to 99% cpu.  I have to 
> manually kill it every time I use it.  However, that's no concern of plasma, 
> and if restarting clears it for you it obviously is a plasma bug.  I don't 
> know what to suggest, other than filing another bug report.

I haven't seen either of these problems, but with KDE it's often a good
idea to try things in a fresh user account to see if they are
reproducible.

poc