Comment Re:Well I see /. says a "fix" is available now... (Score 1) 452
There is a new version of KDE (3.0.3) due out in about a week, which will obviously contain the fix, and will have been very thoroughly tested by then. It's up to your distributor to package a binary fix for older versions.
The fix does not require a full rebuild of KDE, only a small portion of kdelibs, and takes just a few minutes to recompile and reinstall. Some of us sat up until the early hours, doing copious testing (of both a patched kdelibs, and a full rebuild of kdelibs.) It's the nature of open source that testing is done after the fix is distributed to the developers in CVS, Waldo announcing it to the lists was the quickest and best way to get more people testing and quickly.
The fix does not require a full rebuild of KDE, only a small portion of kdelibs, and takes just a few minutes to recompile and reinstall. Some of us sat up until the early hours, doing copious testing (of both a patched kdelibs, and a full rebuild of kdelibs.) It's the nature of open source that testing is done after the fix is distributed to the developers in CVS, Waldo announcing it to the lists was the quickest and best way to get more people testing and quickly.
