Re: KDE3.3 has arrived in unstable!

On Sunday, 15 Aug 2004 20:01, Yves Glodt wrote:
> On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:40, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> > On Sunday, 15 Aug 2004 16:43, Yves Glodt wrote:
> > > On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:09, Yves Glodt wrote:
> >  - For some reason, Mozilla Firefox is a darker grey than the rest
> > of my windows. This seems to be irrespective of the theme chosen
> > (but I use Qute). (I can't see that I've upgraded anything GTK- or
> > Firefox-related; the only seemingly related change is kwin. Odd.)
>
> Could this be related to "Control Center->Appearance & Themes->GTK
> Styles and Fonts" ?

I have no such section under Appearance & Themes. I was able to restore 
it by rerunning switch2 with the Plastig theme that I use to match the 
Plastik theme. It was probably unrelated to the KDE upgrade -- I hadn't 
restarted X in a few weeks.

> > > * Strangely the "Cancel", "Apply" and "Ok" buttons are reversed,
> > > e.g in the kontrol center... Is this Gnome now... ;-)
> >
> > I see [Defaults]     [Apply][Reset] in that order. [Okay][Cancel in
> > the background advanced options dialogue (for example).
> > [Apply][Discard][Cancel] in the unsaved changes dialogue box. Not
> > sure what the "proper" order is meant to be, but I tend to actually
> > read the labels rather than click blindly. Anyway, it's a
> > difference of preference, not a bug.
>
> Well one can discuss over that, but fact is that in DE3.2.3 which I
> used until yesterday evening, my buttons had the "right" order...
> Also, I installed KDE 3.3 on my laptop, which also has unstable and
> also had KDE 3.2.3, but strangely I don't see the swapped buttons
> there... Really weird...

That is a bit odd. Same architectures and all? A bit of a shot in the 
dark, but could it be a personalisation issue? You might try fiddling 
with KPersonalizer on a test account and see if that shows anything.

> > > * Juk plays, arts works, but no systems sounds at all.
> > > The "Test sound" button in kcmarts works.
> >
> > Yes, Arts works. I uninstalled Juk since it never worked for me,
> > but I decided to give it another shot now, since you said it works.
> > Seems a little better -- only 90% of Ogg Vorbis files are choppy
> > now compared to 100% in the past, and it doesn't seem to crash Arts
> > anymore when failing to play Ogg Vorbis files like it used to.
>
> For me it works very well, no choppy sound. Strange.
> JuK rocks! I kicked xmms for it.

It seems only to affect Ogg Vorbis files, but I don't have many MP3 
files to verify with. Some batches ripped at the same time exhibit the 
behaviour only for some files. I'd file a bug, but I feel like I have 
no useful information really.

> > There are system sounds. If yours are broken, reconfigure through
> > the Control Centre->Sound & Multimedia->System Notifications. Most
> > of the sounds reside in the /usr/share/sounds directory.
>
> I did that, I did "Turn on all sounds" with the "Apply to all
> applications" checked. Still no sound.
> Then I clicked the "Defaults" button, still no sound.
>
> but this works without any problem:
> yves@Valhalla:/usr/share/sounds$ artsplay KDE_Startup_1.ogg
>
> Strangely, all the sounds are preset to use the old wav files instead
> the new oggs. But even when I manually change one from a wav to an
> ogg file, I still can't get it played.
>
> Now when I change the "Player settings" to use an external player and
> specify "artsplay", all the sounds work...
> I'll let it like this for now

Odd. I'm thinking some library is missing, or your config files have 
become funny. What happens if you create a new user or move your 
configuration files out of the way temporarily? I did Google my way to 
the following:

http://freebsd.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2004-June/008411.html

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