Just upgraded to new KDE

[MCP]

Just thought I'd add my comments about the new upgrade.  Went so smooth, I didn't know it happened until I rebooted.

I do have a couple of questions.  I do see the "RestoreMyKDEdesktop" icon, nice touch by the way, but I haven't decided if I'm going to take advantage of it, so is there a time limit where by you shouldn't use it?

Next question, I notice that my screensavers are limited even though I have xscreensaver installed.  What do I do?  Reinstall them? Does restoring my KDE desktop restore them as well?

Great upgrade,
MCP

[Archie]

Just thought I'd add my comments about the new upgrade.  Went so smooth, I didn't know it happened until I rebooted.

I do have a couple of questions.  I do see the "RestoreMyKDEdesktop" icon, nice touch by the way, but I haven't decided if I'm going to take advantage of it, so is there a time limit where by you shouldn't use it?

RestoreMyDesktop is a backup of your desktop settings before you updated. Once you make changes on your current desktop, these new changes will not be moved to restoring your previous desktop settings. RestoreMyDesktop is best used immediately.

Next question, I notice that my screensavers are limited even though I have xscreensaver installed.  What do I do?  Reinstall them? Does restoring my KDE desktop restore them as well?

Great upgrade,
MCP

There is a problem with xscreensaver and the new KDE which we are still looking into. It seems that whether xscreensaver+components are installed or not, using them in KDE would require direct commands instead of the KDE interface to xscreensaver.

[OldGuy]

Smooth change for me too, but I saw my widget to minimize all the windows gone?  Couldn't find it by looking for new widgets.  Is there another way to reduce all open windows?  I'll miss that one as it one I use alot.

[stealth]

I also noticed on a clean new install with no configuration settings done and only the routine updates and then the upgrade that some widgets are gone. But I also noticed that my long running install when running the restoredesktop script was executed all my widgets on that box are there and work.

[Archie]

I'm not sure how to answer this but for this we'd need to look these all up at KDE.org. Maybe they have been removed or maybe they are employed in another way. I don't think it is a PCLOS issue. We can only provide what is in fact provided to us.

[YouCanToo]

Smooth change for me too, but I saw my widget to minimize all the windows gone?  Couldn't find it by looking for new widgets.  Is there another way to reduce all open windows?  I'll miss that one as it one I use alot.

Check to see if kde-plasma-addons are installed in synaptic

[OldGuy]

I'm not sure how to answer this but for this we'd need to look these all up at KDE.org. Maybe they have been removed or maybe they are employed in another way. I don't think it is a PCLOS issue. We can only provide what is in fact provided to us.

Archie had a good idea, so I looked with ixquick search and found this on the kde forum page (a workaround).

By the way, did you know that you can use your pager (the widget which shows your virtual desktops) to show your desktop? Right click on pager -> Pager Settings -> Selecting current desktop: Shows desktop.

So I tried it, and when pressing [1] my windows close, cool beans.....

Source: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=85942

[Archie]

kde-plasma-addons is a requirement for kde-workspace and should be installed, unless it wasn't updated to the latest and still using the previous version.

[Archie]

I'm not sure how to answer this but for this we'd need to look these all up at KDE.org. Maybe they have been removed or maybe they are employed in another way. I don't think it is a PCLOS issue. We can only provide what is in fact provided to us.

Archie had a good idea, so I looked with ixquick search and found this on the kde forum page (a workaround).

By the way, did you know that you can use your pager (the widget which shows your virtual desktops) to show your desktop? Right click on pager -> Pager Settings -> Selecting current desktop: Shows desktop.

So I tried it, and when pressing [1] my windows close, cool beans.....

Source: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=85942

So that's where Show Desktop went to! At least they could have told us that! 

Hey, good find, OldGuy.

[OldGuy]

Smooth change for me too, but I saw my widget to minimize all the windows gone?  Couldn't find it by looking for new widgets.  Is there another way to reduce all open windows?  I'll miss that one as it one I use alot.

Check to see if kde-plasma-addons are installed in synaptic

It wasn't checked off when I went to synaptic, added it and sure enough there's "show desktop".  YouCanToo & Archie had the real solution!

[YouCanToo]

kde-plasma-addons is a requirement for kde-workspace and should be installed, unless it wasn't updated to the latest and still using the previous version.

I was missing the desktop and some other widgets after doing the update on my laptop and it was old-polack that told me to install them. Once I did, I gained back the missing widgets.  It was just a though.

[stealth]

Strange! I don't have kde-plasma-addons installed but the show desktop icon is still on my taskbar and works.

[YouCanToo]

It would appear that not everyone experience the same issues when updating their system.  I have also lost the volume control, even though I do have sound (full volume) and I can not play anything with flash  IE: youtube, hulu.  All I see is a plain white screen, nothing else.  So far this has happened on every machine I have done the current KDE4.8 update to.

[Archie]

Strange! I don't have kde-plasma-addons installed but the show desktop icon is still on my taskbar and works.

You need to restart plasma-desktop. Hmmm, lemme see ... use at your own risk ...

On a konsole:
pkill plasma-desktop

Then restart with
plasma-desktop

Or it would just be much safer to logout/in.  

[YouCanToo]

Smooth change for me too, but I saw my widget to minimize all the windows gone?  Couldn't find it by looking for new widgets.  Is there another way to reduce all open windows?  I'll miss that one as it one I use alot.

Check to see if kde-plasma-addons are installed in synaptic

It wasn't checked off when I went to synaptic, added it and sure enough there's "show desktop".  YouCanToo & Archie had the real solution!

Glad to hear that worked for you!