Hi,
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Please state the version of KDE and don't say "KDE4". Thereis big difference between KDE4 and KDE 4.0/4.0.4/4.1/4.1.1. "KDE4" means something different. You will find enough documents on the internet about this. Do read about it.
I had mentioned that it is upgraded to the latest packages through apt. Fresh and piping hot. :-)
Yeah so? I don't use Kubuntu so I don't know what is latest in Kubuntu repos.
So you need to state the version which causes you the problem, thats a common thing required for bugs. You *need* to state the version number so that developers can narrow down the issue. A version tracker generally has a version component ( and downstream/upstream component )
Anyway, I am not sure if you understood main point. KDE4 is *not* a version. KDE 4.0/4.1/4.1.1 and so on are versions of KDE. KDE4 is an ongoing "journey".
What is an upstream or downstream problem? I just install GNU/Linux and
Ok, so it works this way .... FOSS projects ( KDE ) write software. Distros ( Kubuntu ) take those software and make changes sometimes to those software and release them. What you see in Kubuntu is *not* pristine KDE sources. They are moderately to heavily patched at times.
So KDE is upstream. A distro - kubuntu - is downstream. In an ideal world, downstream people should send bugfixes and patches back to upstream and keep the diff small. Some distros follow that well - example - Fedora. Some don't, unfortunately.
Now the bug you faced, might be a downstream problem - a kubuntu specific problem, which has nothing to do with KDE. Since you don't build KDE from sources, you can't be sure that its an upstream problem. Guess what, in KDE bug tracker, you state which version of KDE you are using and the origin of sources/build.
use KDE. Found the problem just yesterday at someone's place.
Which distro? Which version of distro? Which version of KDE.
Cheers!
Pradeepto