Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-21 Thread Greg Rundlett
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will write the article, pass it past my friend for his o.k. on > accuracy and some URLs, and when I get it posted I will let you know. > > md > > After watching a couple "Google Tech Talks" from the KDE4 Release Eve

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-14 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I will write the article, pass it past my friend for his o.k. on accuracy and some URLs, and when I get it posted I will let you know. md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discu

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-14 Thread Greg Rundlett
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a friend who works on KDE a lot. I had a chat with him last > night about some of the issues that have been mentioned here, and I am > going to write about our conversation in my LinuxProMagazine blog.

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-14 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hi, I have a friend who works on KDE a lot. I had a chat with him last night about some of the issues that have been mentioned here, and I am going to write about our conversation in my LinuxProMagazine blog. But since Greg has found out some things, and made the comment about "Gee it would be n

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-13 Thread Greg Rundlett
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Brian Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greg Rundlett wrote: >> I've been through the upgrade process and I'm still getting used to KDE 4. >> >> I'm frustrated by not being able to have a customized panel with >> direct launchers for all my favorite applicati

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Chabot
Greg Rundlett wrote: > I've been through the upgrade process and I'm still getting used to KDE 4. > > I'm frustrated by not being able to have a customized panel with > direct launchers for all my favorite applications. For that matter, > although I generally keep a clean desktop, I don't like

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyone done it yet? Any, "Your system wont work for 3 days while >> you frack with it" gotchas? >> And most importantly, when the upgrade to

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone done it yet? Any, "Your system wont work for 3 days while > you frack with it" gotchas? > And most importantly, when the upgrade to KDE 4.1 happens, can you > get compiz back? I am.. Underwhelmed.. I've neve

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After hearing about it, I did some research. It looks like KDE4 is > using some OpenGL which some drivers have 'pretty big emotional > issues' over. I'll let you know if I encounter any issues Greg. > What's your card,

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Greg Rundlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> both my systems use >> nvidia or ati cards that are not supported yet (although they were >> supported under kde 3.x) > WTF does KDE have to do with

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Greg Rundlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > both my systems use > nvidia or ati cards that are not supported yet (although they were > supported under kde 3.x) WTF does KDE have to do with one's video card? Isn't that the X server's job? Linux gets closer and

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Greg Rundlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been through the upgrade process and I'm still getting used to KDE 4. Yea, I tried 4.0 when it came out, and reverted back to 3.x as I didn't feel it was up to par quite yet. I was hoping 4.1 did some catching up.

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Greg Rundlett
I've been through the upgrade process and I'm still getting used to KDE 4. I'm frustrated by not being able to have a customized panel with direct launchers for all my favorite applications. For that matter, although I generally keep a clean desktop, I don't like the fact that KDE4 won't let me p

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Mark Komarinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/12/2008 02:44 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: >> Anyone done it yet? Any, "Your system wont work for 3 days while >> you frack with it" gotchas? > Upgrading my desktop was quite painless - we have a local mirror, so it

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 11/12/2008 02:44 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: > Anyone done it yet? Any, "Your system wont work for 3 days while > you frack with it" gotchas? > I had plain Ubuntu installed on my laptop and desktop. I think I chose the wrong mirror for the laptop and it told me there were no packages to i

Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Thomas Charron
Anyone done it yet? Any, "Your system wont work for 3 days while you frack with it" gotchas? And most importantly, when the upgrade to KDE 4.1 happens, can you get compiz back? -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlu