On Friday 23 January 2009 22:55:50 Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 20:10 -0700, Jerry Davis wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:54:23 -0700 > > > > Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > > try Ubuntu... jmz > > > > ubuntu 8.10 is both good and bad. > > I have used ubuntu for a couple years now, and had no problems until 8.10 > > I have bugs in for 2 things: > > my DVD drive doesn't work - so I am living w/o it > > I have a usb drive that goes into a race condition and fills up the log > > ---- > make sure your BIOS is up to date > ---- > > > I have spent a lot of time getting everything to work, and I will just > > hope that some patch sometime fixes the issues. > > > > KDE 4 sucks! > > ---- > I suspect that Fedora is a bit ahead of Ubuntu/Kubuntu on KDE-4 at the > moment because Fedora 10 is the second release with KDE-4 and when it > was released with Fedora 9, there was a ton of objections. > > KDE 4.2 is on the horizon and release candidates are available but of > course outside of the standard distribution packaging. Again, Fedora has > been really aggressive here, backporting fixes and in general, I am > really loving KDE-4 myself. Fedora packagers just put out a complete set > of KDE updates yesterday...the second or third massive update of KDE-4 > in the few weeks of F10 availability. I love those guys for what they're > doing. > > That said, regardless of the status of the 'Folder View' Plasmoid, the > desktop on KDE-4 simply is not what people are used to and it is pretty > much dead space where the filesystem is concerned. If you're > pre-disposed to keeping files on your Desktop, then KDE-4 will bother > you. > > Craig > I have been using KDE 4 since 4.1.0 came out. I really rather like it. I'm not very accustomed to putting files on my desktop, but rather various objects and so KDE 4 fits me perfect with the plasmoids. I use the knotes plasmoid to keep a rather large note on the side of my desktop and the show dashboard plasmoid button on my taskbar so I can quickly get to my notes plasmoid. I cannot remember life before this! When I must keep files on the desktop I find folderview does what I need rather well. I have to say, while a bit buggy, 4.2.0 is going to be awesome. I have the packages built for PaysonLinux and it works very well. The only major problem I have found is the disconnected-imap in kmail casuing a race situation that causes so much disk activity I have to forcibly shutdown my laptop, though it does not happen every time. The kdepim guys and I have been working on this for a couple weeks, but it will not be a showstopper for the 4.2.0 release... Seems not a lot of people are using dimap, though, again, I cannot imagine life without it! Nathan --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss