KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

[John]

The only annoyance I noticed with Grub is that I have dual boot and I can't boot into the other OS automatically from KDE (pull down on restart with OS choice) this works in KDE 4.0 though so I guess it has to do with kdm's not playing nicely.

I had some problems with my old nvidia card. Tried to get google earth to work and I got all kinds of warnings. I downloaded envygn-core and that solved all my nvidia problems as I take it envygn builds the proper drivers and kmdls for your system. Also fixed my screen shift to.

The bug I've noticed on Konqueror with all distros is if you do a search and you hit refresh it sometimes crashes and kwrite won't work. This stinks if you doing work as root (kdesu) because then it makes you logout and back in.

I have no problems with Samba as I'm sharing folders and printers between WinXP and Ubuntu. When I first used it on my old distro, I found it complicated as I was trying to make it harder than it was.


--- On Mon, 8/25/08, Trent Shipley <trent_shipley at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Trent Shipley <trent_shipley at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: KDE 4 and Kubuntu?
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Monday, August 25, 2008, 6:58 PM
> I too prefer KDE over Gnome.  I've done fine with
> Kubuntu with some caveats.
> 
> --I have to alter the GRUB instruction file to get the @#$%
> kernel to load on the Dell motherboard.  This is
> particularly annoying since the machine shipped with Ubuntu.
> 
> --It took several kernel releases before Hardy would work
> with my Nvidia card.
> 
> --The screen saver won't work.  It worked when shipped.
> 
> --The KDE file viewers have a bug.  If you scroll off the
> first screen, they scroll right back to the top of the file
> list.
> 
> --I can't get Samba to work.  But that is probably due
> to my ignorance of IP chains and Linux Firewalls.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com>
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 9:08:00 PM
> Subject: KDE 4 and Kubuntu?
> 
> Novell has re-upped with Microsoft, including the
> continuation of
> "intellectual property" FUD[1].  So, I've
> been patient because I
> really want to like Novell and I like OpenSUSE but,
> it's time to move
> on from the "Linux division of MS"
> 
> My most likely destination distro is Kunbuntu because of
> it's strong
> support, good reputation and my preference for KDE.  I
> downloaded the
> community supported version of 8.04 that has KDE 4 as the
> default
> desktop.  I'm curious as to it's stability.  If you
> have experience
> with KDE 4, especially on Kubuntu, please share with all of
> us.  Has
> it been stable?  Is it resource hungry?  Any other gotchas?
>  Did you
> wish to go back to KDE 3.x?  Why or why not?
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> Alan
> 
> [1]http://blogs.computerworld.com/novell_and_microsoft_stop_with_the_fud_already
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