On Wednesday 10 March 2004 12:30 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > Well, it took about 4-1/2 days via BitTorrent, but the download of the 5 > PowerPack discs for 10 Community finally finished earlier this evening, > so they're burnt and installed (did an upgrade rather than fresh install > ... yeah, I know, I can hear you already ;-) > > Anyway, on a positive note, now that my BT download is done and the new > Mandrake version in place, /NOW/ I'm able to install the > bittorrentshadows client and have my BT GUI. (and, yes, I've got the > two .iso sets up and available via BT now)... That went without a hitch > despite its refusal to install earlier. > > So, /two/ annoying things ... maybe just one, but possibly two. > > First, some fonts seem a little odd ... just slightly off, like the > kerning is set incorrectly. My eyesight's not so hot these days, so > it's hard for me to define exactly what's going on with them, just that > they're "off" a bit. I suppose I can play with those a bit. > Make sure sub-pixel hinting settings are to your liking.
> The other thing is that the menuing in the new KDE is different ... I've > heard of others losing their menus and having to do an update-menus -v > from konsole, but mine are there, just rearranged (which I expected to > an extent, but some things seem rather odd, such as only Editors showing > under Applications, and just WWW under Networking. Some of the changes > seem to be for the better (more intuitive), and others just seem odd to > me. Is my menuing fubar'ed, or do I just need to get used to the new > arrangement in the updated KDE? > This was a redesign of the menu based on feedback from a vote on club where womething like 92% of users wanted a more useful menu structure. This was the result. See the release notes (which should be on cd1 also) here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux10ReleaseNotes > Anyway, except for a little annoyance or two, so far everything seems to > have gone well with the upgrade from 9.2 download to 10.0 > community/powerpack. -- /g
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