Re: [tlug] Bye to Suse, Hello to Kubuntu & Debian

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Lyle H Saxon wrote:

> Now that I've begun using KDE 4.1 for a while, I'm beginning to like
> certain aspects of it.

I have to admit that, once I started playing with KDE 4.1 it did start 
making a lot more sense.  Not sure if I actually like it or am just 
getting used to the clicking patterns.

I have had KDE 4.x on my earlier versions of Kubuntu for about eight 
months and prefer the way a whole lot of the KDE4 versions of the 
attached programs work.  I still need to get past the issue of 
Kubuntu8.10 / KDE 4.1 not liking Python.  Unfortunately, the problem 
went away on my 32-bit test mule installation on the NetVista without 
leaving a single clue as to why it now works ... not that I was 
particularly cluefull to begin with.  It may have had something to do 
with the order in which I installed peripheral programs, but I can't be 
sure.

> I still need to figure out how to get the virtual desktops back.  With 
> older versions of KDE (on Suse & Kubuntu), one of the first things I 
> always did after a new install, was to increase the standard two(!!) 

System Settings is on the first page of Kmenu.  Just go to Desktop and 
you can add them there.  I normally change to six desktops and keep 
specific programs running on each.  Fortunately, KDE 4.x does away with 
those idiotic mouseover popups so that was one less irritating thing 
that needed immediate eradication.

> desktops to four or five, and to turn off the idiotic setting that keeps 
> every application open visible in the taskbar (wait a minute... the 

If you access the taskbar setup, there is a checkbox for "show programs 
on all desktops" that you can uncheck.  That is also one of the first 
things I do.

> Probably the second thing I've done with Kubuntu is to immedately get 
> Firefox installed!

Yes.  But, 3.0.5 comes with a whole list of things that Firefox now does 
differently and also had to be re-learned.  I'm getting used to it, but 
I'd love to have mnenhy back as an add-on.

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CL