[newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread Vic
Hello from the States. I would like to offer my review for kde2.1beta 2 I for the most part liked all the new features, altho some of them were broken, such as the blank kcontrol thing, rendering it useless in root account. I also liked the new config menu for Konqueror but the user agent

Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread Michael O'Henly
My experience with 2.1 Beta 2 has been a lot more positive. I'm sure that themes will be functional in the final release and I can live without them until then. From recent posts on KDE.News it sounds like graphical polish is being applied right now... http://dot.kde.org/981832647/

Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread Vic
Cool. How did you get your kcontrol to work? I could not figure it out and no one helped me with it so I gave up and downgraded. I agree that Konq was very stable in beta2 tho, only crashed once or 2wice on me. I do wish I had an experimenting machine so I could offer more reveews and stuff

Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Sunday 11 February 2001 13:54, Vic wrote: Cool. How did you get your kcontrol to work? I didn't have to do anything. It just worked "out of the box". As I mentioned in another post, I did a completely clean install of 7.2 prior to installing Beta 2 and perhaps this is why I had no

Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread s
your cd must have 2.0 final on it. Mine came with 2.0pre. So I have to run update first, or -e kdebase and then it just won't upgrade the appearance of the menus or toolbars of apps. I was messing around reinstalling just now to try and get that slick appearance other's enjoy and messed

Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread Vic
Hmm so did I, I still don't get it. Maybe its the hardware on this machine? On Sunday 11 February 2001 04:23 pm, Michael O'Henly wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2001 13:54, Vic wrote: Cool. How did you get your kcontrol to work? I didn't have to do anything. It just worked "out of the box".

Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread Romanator
Vic wrote: Hello from the States. I would like to offer my review for kde2.1beta 2 I for the most part liked all the new features, altho some of them were broken, such as the blank kcontrol thing, rendering it useless in root account. I also liked the new config menu for Konqueror

Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread Mark Weaver
Vic wrote: Cool. How did you get your kcontrol to work? I could not figure it out and no one helped me with it so I gave up and downgraded. I agree that Konq was very stable in beta2 tho, only crashed once or 2wice on me. I do wish I had an experimenting machine so I could offer