Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


UNIX and Linux RSS News

What went wrong with the KDE 4 release?

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Special Forums News, Links, Events and Announcements UNIX and Linux RSS News What went wrong with the KDE 4 release?
# 1  
Old 07-15-2008
What went wrong with the KDE 4 release?
07-15-2008 11:00 AM
When KDE 4.0 was released in January, it was supposed to be the foundation for a new era of desktop development. But as 4.x versions began finding their way into distributions, negative reactions began to obscure other ones. With the upcoming 4.1 release due at the end of this month, it's hard to avoid wondering: what happened?



Source...
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread
Login or Register to Ask a Question

LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

kbuildsycoca4

KBUILDSYCOCA4(8)						 KDE User's Manual						  KBUILDSYCOCA4(8)

NAME

       kbuildsycoca4 - Rebuilds the system configuration cache.

SYNOPSIS

       kbuildsycoca4 [[--nosignal] | [--noincremental] | [--checkstamps] | [--nocheckfiles] | [--global] | [--menutest] | [--track menu-id] |
		     [--help] | [--help-qt] | [--help-kde] | [--help-all] | [--author] | [-v, --version] | [--license]]

DESCRIPTION

       kbuildsycoca4, as part of the KDE command line tools ensures the proper operation of KDE by reading in all the .desktop, .xml, and
       .protocol files to construct a binary database.

       KDE itself accesses this database during operation to provide configuration information a program needs to run.

       This tool is part of ksycoca4, which stands for KDE System Configuration Cache

OPTIONS

       --nosignal
	   Do not signal applications to update

       --noincremental
	   Disable incremental update, re-read everything

       --checkstamps
	   Check file timestamps

       --nocheckfiles
	   Disable checking files (dangerous)

       --global
	   Create global database

       --menutest
	   Perform menu generation test run only

       --track menu-id
	   Track menu id for debug purposes

       --help
	   Show help about options

       --help-qt
	   Show Qt specific options

       --help-kde
	   Show KDE specific options

       --help-all
	   Show all options

       --author
	   Show author information

       -v , --version
	   Show version information

       --license
	   Show license information

USAGE

       A standard way to run this program is by simply specifying the following command at the prompt kbuildsycoca4

FILES

       /var/tmp/kde-$USER/ksycoca4
	   The default directory where the cache files are stored.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       $KDEDIRS
	   Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations

       $KDESYCOCA
	   Specifies the path to the sycoca database file

SEE ALSO

       kdeinit4

BUGS

       There are probably tons of bugs. Use bugs.kde.org[1] to report them.

AUTHOR

       Darian Lanx <content@openprojects.net>
	   Author.

NOTES

	1. bugs.kde.org
	   http://bugs.kde.org

1.1 (KDE 4.4)							    2010-01-04							  KBUILDSYCOCA4(8)