Re: Kubuntu 9.10 - I HATE KDE 4.X

2009-11-13 Thread Wayne Davis
which still uses kde 3.5.10 if it helps Brian On Nov 11, 2009 8:08 AM, Wayne Davis waydavis.phx.li...@gmail.com mailto:waydavis.phx.li...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying DESPERATELY to fall in love with KDE 4.x, but this plasmoid, containment, wideget window, blah,blah blah... AGHHH!!! has

Re: Kubuntu 9.10 - I HATE KDE 4.X

2009-11-13 Thread AZ RUNE
mailto:waydavis.phx.li...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying DESPERATELY to fall in love with KDE 4.x, but this plasmoid, containment, wideget window, blah,blah blah... AGHHH!!! has me NUTS! I'm sure it is simple, but for the life of me, I cannot make heads or tails of it. WHERE can I go

Re: Kubuntu 9.10 - I HATE KDE 4.X

2009-11-13 Thread Wayne Davis
wrote: I am trying DESPERATELY to fall in love with KDE 4.x, but this plasmoid, containment, wideget window, blah,blah blah... AGHHH!!! has me NUTS! I'm sure it is simple, but for the life of me, I cannot make heads or tails of it. WHERE can I go

Kubuntu 9.10 - I HATE KDE 4.X

2009-11-11 Thread Wayne Davis
I am trying DESPERATELY to fall in love with KDE 4.x, but this plasmoid, containment, wideget window, blah,blah blah... AGHHH!!! has me NUTS! I'm sure it is simple, but for the life of me, I cannot make heads or tails of it. WHERE can I go to have someone spend 15 min SHOWING me the ropes

Re: Kubuntu 9.10 - I HATE KDE 4.X

2009-11-11 Thread James Finstrom
...@gmail.comwrote: I am trying DESPERATELY to fall in love with KDE 4.x, but this plasmoid, containment, wideget window, blah,blah blah... AGHHH!!! has me NUTS! I'm sure it is simple, but for the life of me, I cannot make heads or tails of it. WHERE can I go to have someone spend 15 min

KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread wayne
Is it me, or are others finding this version NON-user friendly too. 4 times I have put Kubuntu on my system, and 4 times... I HATE Kde4.x What other distro's can I go to that have a look similar to the old KDE3.x? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread Ryan Rix
wayne wrote: Is it me, or are others finding this version NON-user friendly too. 4 times I have put Kubuntu on my system, and 4 times... I HATE Kde4.x What other distro's can I go to that have a look similar to the old KDE3.x? Hi, Kubuntu's KDE4 packages are, imo, garbage. I've been

Re: KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread Jerry Davis
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:28:08 -0700 wayne wayda...@cox.net wrote: Is it me, or are others finding this version NON-user friendly too. 4 times I have put Kubuntu on my system, and 4 times... I HATE Kde4.x What other distro's can I go to that have a look similar to the old KDE3.x? I

Re: KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread wayne
Ryan Rix wrote: wayne wrote: Is it me, or are others finding this version NON-user friendly too. 4 times I have put Kubuntu on my system, and 4 times... I HATE Kde4.x What other distro's can I go to that have a look similar to the old KDE3.x? Hi, Kubuntu's KDE4 packages are,

Re: KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread Jerry Davis
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:39:35 -0700 Joseph Sinclair plug-discuss...@stcaz.net wrote: Jerry Davis wrote: I wish the old konsole was back, I had a whole bunch of ssh terminals I went into and automatically renamed the terminal tab. now NO ONE seems to know how to do it - a LOT of ideas and

Re: KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Jerry Davis wrote: I wish the old konsole was back, I had a whole bunch of ssh terminals I went into and automatically renamed the terminal tab. now NO ONE seems to know how to do it - a LOT of ideas and theories on how it is supposed to -- but no one with knowledge of how to do it. You can

Re: KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread John
Why do you think Fedora's packages are better? I'm having a horrible time with Kubuntu 9.04 freezing, crashing, x crashing so I may make a change. --- On Tue, 9/8/09, Ryan Rix phrkonale...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ryan Rix phrkonale...@gmail.com Subject: Re: KDE 4.X To: plug-discuss

Re: KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread Joseph Sinclair
The escape sequence works just fine on KDE as well. Any terminal program that handles the VT100 escapes. One line above the quoted text you stated I have now gone over to gnome since the kde 4 debacle. I used Gnome Terminal as the example based on that statement. Jerry Davis wrote: On Tue, 08

Re: KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread Ryan Rix
John wrote: Why do you think Fedora's packages are better? I'm having a horrible time with Kubuntu 9.04 freezing, crashing, x crashing so I may make a change. Well, for one it doesn't do any of that ;) IMO, Fedora also has a better relationship with upstream, more issues are fixed by the

Re: KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread Ryan Rix
wayne wrote: Hey Ryan, Thanks for the reply. Specifically, the things that are bugging me right now are: A: I use PANELS on dual monitors. Lower AND upper panels on both. In 3.x, I could position a icon on the panel EXACTLY where I wanted it it. 4.x appears to stack them against each other

Re: KDE 4.X

2009-09-08 Thread Jerry Davis
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:19:12 -0700 Joseph Sinclair plug-discuss...@stcaz.net wrote: The escape sequence works just fine on KDE as well. Any terminal program that handles the VT100 escapes. One line above the quoted text you stated I have now gone over to gnome since the kde 4 debacle. I used

Re: Quick review of Kubuntu with KDE 4.x

2008-09-01 Thread Patrick C
My advice to you is to apt-get update; apt-get upgrade right away. KDE 4.1 has a [i]lot[/i] of improvements in stability and general usability. On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Alan Dayley [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just installed Kubuntu 8.04

Re: Quick review of Kubuntu with KDE 4.x

2008-09-01 Thread Patrick C
Wow... too much PHPBB... (never mind me) On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Patrick C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My advice to you is to apt-get update; apt-get upgrade right away. KDE 4.1 has a *[i]lot[/i]* of improvements in stability and general usability.

Re: Quick review of Kubuntu with KDE 4.x

2008-09-01 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, it's too late for that now. But that's OK. I'm happy on the KDE 3.x release for now. I'll try the 4.x series later sometime. Alan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Quick review of Kubuntu with KDE 4.x

2008-08-30 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just installed Kubuntu 8.04 community KDE 4 remix. It installed smoothly and looked very nice. Then during online installation of more packages, Adept (the package manager) crashed. Just went away off the screen. Then it crashed again. Then I