Questions about Kubuntu 12.04 and its updates

[joe at actionline.com]

Thanks Brian.  I always appreciate your helpful tips and comments.

I still wish there was some way to totally get rid of that blasted,
annoying cashew and all the nuisance widgets ;)

And I still can't get the panel icons arranged in the sequence I want
them. Every time I restart, they get all messed up and have to be
rearranged again. And I can't figure out how to put the panel on the left
or right side of the screen instead of on the bottom or top.  Any
suggestions?

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> I understand where you are coming from but you need not worry .  The
> updates you are seeing are the next maintenance release coming in.  It's
> still the exact same version of KDE you have had the whole time, they
> are just simply giving you the bug/security fixes that have come out
> within that KDE version.  It should be completely safe to go ahead and
> do the upgrade since you won't be gaining or losing any features, just
> fixing bugs.
>
> If you ever do want to get the newer version of KDE, you will need to
> load a PPA (Personal Package Archive) that the KDE maintainers for
> kubuntu keep that will give you access to the new version... or upgrade
> to a newer version of Kubuntu of course.
>
> I can tell you that the very next version of KDE doesn't add a whole lot
> of new features, but they have ported much of the system to use
> QTQuick/Plasma Quick, which give you a noticeable speed improvement and
> smoother overall feel.
>
> Brian Cluff