Hello guys, I give support at MandrakeExpert and there was an incident created by an user very dissatisfied with Mandrake Linux 9.2. If you guys want to take a closer look, the incident number is 72784. The user says after upgrading to Mandrake 9.2 from Mandrake 9.0 he's lost a lot of features and customization he'd made. In answer to him, I said I would forward his complains about mdk 9.2 to Cooker guys to try to improve the next version. What do you guys think about his opnions? Do you think these things can be changed? Below is the message transcript. Later, Alberto M. ---------------------------------------------- I just installed Mandrake 9.2 over my 9.0. I have lost the following functions, and I want them back. kpp - I had a button on my pannel to launch kpp to dial my isp. Now there is no function there.
Superuser file manager - There was a superuser file manager under the file manager section of my start menu. It is now gone. What is the function that it linked to so I can get it back and manipulate the files as root without haveing to mess around with an su in a terminal somewhere? Kmail address book is gone - Kmail is now asking for an address book. I want the one I was using before. Under the configuration menu the login manager asked for the root password and let me do useful stuff. The new version doesn't. So far, I consider 9.2 a major step backward. I have to send this message from Windows. [after, he sent another one]: I have reloaded the packages for KPPP and KAddressBook to my system. KAddressBook did find all my e-mail addresses. Incidently, I also lost the game Freecell. My bigger problem is I can't connect to my ISP through my modem. The connections got lost when I upgraded. I did use the config tool to setup the internet connection, but none of my programs (Kmail, pan, galleon, mozilla, opera, etc.) can connect, and all report that they are unable to connect to the requested host. Finally, my SCSI devices have disappeared. My swap file is on the SCSI drive, so this is a potential problem. At least I have 512 meg of memory. Please help. I have to use Windows whenever I want to go to the net, and I can't install my Win4Lin until I get the internet connection back up to get the latest modified kernel from Netraverse. Finally, can you go back to the old x-windows signon window. With the new one, you can only login for users that are on the list. The old one also allowed you to enter the user's name. I was hoping to change the window, or at least add root to the list by using the login manager from the desktop manager (don't you think this should be in the configuration manager too?), and selected the administrator button. The window appeard to allow me to enter the root password. The main window went blank and said loading. But then it blinked for a minute. I could see that the text boxes were active. Then almost instantly, it went blank again, and the window was as it is when the program starts. So I cannot change the login interface. Is there some way to get rid of the background on all the pseudo terminals on F1 through F6? Can the startup and shutdown all be set to default to verbose mode? The new kde icons look like they were stollen from Windows XP. Any way to go back to the old ones? It does look to me as though you rushed this to the field, and did not do complete testing. This is the kind of thing I expect from Microsoft. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
