Anyone updated to KDE 3.2.1 ?

[Michal Zeravik]

Marian POPESCU wrote:

>Hi,
>
>As I have made the step, I thought that sharing knowledge will benefit to
>anyone ...
>
>So, here it is:
>
>1. Installation went well, without a hitch (rpm -Uhv *.rpm);
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I did recompile main packages kde3.2.1 for alsa support.
But System settings in Control Center always hangs a window.
Don't know what is the reason.

>2. Fonts rendering changed again in 3.2.1: by default anti-aliasing is
>enabled and there is no way to retrieve the sharp - clear rendering that I
>had with 3.2. (see this:
>http://perso.netpratique.fr/softexpert/img/KDE/FontRendering2.png). Why?
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After recompile some fonts are weird.
http://www.depo9.cz/images/snapshot.png

>3. From time to time, the system gives the impression that it freezes
>completely, only to continue normally after 10-25 seconds. Weird ...
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Never happened to me.

>4. Applications icons are missing (see this image:
>http://perso.netpratique.fr/softexpert/img/KDE/IconsMissing.png).
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>5. Font rendering causes as well some weird size calculations for menus (see
>this image:
>http://perso.netpratique.fr/softexpert/img/KDE/FontRendering1.png).
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Did you try to choose another font for menu?

>6. A weird bug on Quanta (crash when opening a file named index.php and that
>has require(somefile.php) was solved.
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Yes, quanta seems to work well, but with other text coding (iso-8895-2)
sometimes It disturb that file is changed before saving. I have to 
reopen file.

>My Fedora Core has the following configuration:
>kernel: 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl
>freetype: freetype-2.1.7-2 (compiled for athlon with bytecode interpreter
>enabled)
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I'm using 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl_38.rhfc1.at and  freetype-2.1.4-5.

>I reinstalled everything a week ago and I managed to have wonderfull fonts
>with KDE 3.2. It was PERFECT. 
>Now I have again the strange antialiasing stuff ...
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Very nice work on kde 3.2.1.
Well done, developers.

michalz