Is there any way to go back to 21?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue May 26 23:35:34 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 19:02 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On 05/26/2015 06:55 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 05/27/15 06:49, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > > I am having all sorts of ugly problems, particularly with T-Bird. 
> > > Also 22 mounts my phone but refuses to mount my Kindle. KDE lost 
> > > a bunch of widgets including weather and ktorrent. 21 was more 
> > > stable, possibly faster. This is the first major upgrade problem 
> > > I have had since FC9.
> > There is no tool to accomplish this.  Just restore from the backup 
> > you made.
> > 
> > Since this is a move to Plasma 5 there are bound to be teething 
> > problems.  FWIW, I don't have any issues with T-Bird or ktorrent.  
> >  You may want to ask for help on these in particular if you're 
> > going to stick with KDE.
> You cannot close T-Bird to the tray and there are password issues 
> with Google contacts.

What are the password issues? Note that passwords stored in gnome
-keyring will not work if you have the default SDDM desktop manager for
KDE Plasma. Use KDM (still supported on F22 though it's going to be phased out). This affects Gnome apps running under KDE, e.g. 
Evolution.

> There is no problem with ktorrent - only the absence of 
> the widget. I found a rather ugly Yahoo weather widget. Mil 
> notification 
> doesn't seem to work nor, for that matter, all of my custom key 
> sequences that I use for raw HTML. I tried to reprogram a couple of 
> them 
> and it no longer works.
> 
> I'm a schmuck. I have a 2TB USB-3 drive and could have backed up my 
> system first - I didn't. I mean update after update has been 
> uneventful.

Now is the time to set up a nightly backup system (actually yesterday
would have been better ...)

poc


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