I saw these posts

http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.9-beta1.php

http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta


I am interested in "Getting Involved" in bug testing. I use Linux and complex graphical software all day at work and noticed for some reason I am very good at B lining straight into bugs and crashing stuff. So I figured I would try to use that for good. How does one proceed to get involved and help break stuff?

Well if you're prone to stumbling upon bugs then just report the ones you find with as much detail as you can. Something not working as expected like in previous releases then that's another bug to report. Happy bug hunting

I would seriously recommend you contact the KDE Quality team.
More information can be found at http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta and http://annma.blogspot.fr/2012/06/testin ... -4880.html

Thnx! I'll Check it out

Cheers !
I'm looking forward to testing 4.9 too.
Though, I'll probably just nuke my existing KDE installation (something seems seriously wrong with my 4.8.3 setup ** ) , clone the repo and build it myself for more freshness, when I get some time in the next few weeks.

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1. Takes a whole min to start when using systemd. (may not be kde's fault)
2. Akonadi's imap and thus kmail resuses to work properly
3. A whole lot of mime-type trouble
4. kmix always crashes on startup.
5. kontact does not clean up after itself at shutdown, thus forcing me to intervene at the next startup.
6. window/application specific kwin settings (Ignoring global shortkeys, etc) are discarded when the application is closed.
7. Activity and desktop settings are reset at startup.
I'd report bugs, but I'm almost sure that I've screwed it up myself.

Can you please start a seperate thread for that? It seems that there is quite a few things which are wrong on your system.

bcooksley wrote:Can you please start a seperate thread for that? It seems that there is quite a few things which are wrong on your system.

I'm almost sure that most of the damage is irreparable, due to excessive tinkering, so it'd just be a waste of time.

Given how crucial mimetypes are to the Sycoca, which helps run KDE as a whole, fixing that should be your first priority. Make sure "shared-mime-info" is installed, then erase /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/ outside KDE.