Jaunty clean install and some suggestions

Roderick B. Greening roderick.greening at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 04:50:55 GMT 2009


Luka,

Please open bugs so we can track/address/resolve each issue individually.

And thank you very much for your work in testing this, you have uncovered some 
very important things we need to address.

Regards,

Rod.

On March 5, 2009 7:46:55 pm Luka Renko wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Since I got new laptop to install, I have decided to start from scratch
> Kubuntu Jaunty install in order to cleanup my .kde and to also better see
> the default install of Kubuntu with KDE4. I have written down some notices
> for potential improvements.
>
> 1. Home directory
> After clean install, I get ~/screen-configurations.xml file. Not sure which
> application writes this file, but it looks like it should be in ~/.local
> (at least that is the place of another screen-configurations.xml file)
>
>
> 2. Package dependancies
> I have noticed that we get some gnome-ish packages by default. Note that I
> have installed Alpha 5 + updated to latest packages, so some of this may be
> already addressed.
> - evolution-documentation-en: see https://launchpad.net/bugs/333401
>   (imho, this should be treated as bug and not a wishlist)
> - network-manager-gnome: it was installed by default even though if has
> Recommends network-manager-gnome | network-manager-kde
>   (I suspect we could just add "| plasma-widget-network-manager)
>
> I have also noticed that I have also Crystal icon set installed, but this
> is probably due to KDE3 version of k3b (and openoffice.org-kde), which we
> will hopefully replace soon (or just drop in case of openoffice.org-kde).
> ;-)
>
> I wanted to also use kubuntu-restricted-extras, but I was suprised it
> wanted to install around 60 packages, including pulseaudio (which I would
> like to avoid for the time being) and further qt3 depends - I suspect, this
> just need someone to update it for KDE4.
>
>
> 3. Default config - System Settings
> GTK Style:
> - I think we should have "Use my KDE fonts for GTK application" by default.
> - Firefox & Thunderbird: missing icon
>
> Emoctions:
> - Default vs. KDE4 - they are similar (Oxygen look), but not the same -
> this is very confusing. Anybody understands this?
>
> Desktop Effects:
> - I thought this is auto enabled? On this laptop with Intel 4500 card it is
> not.
>
>
> 4. Default config - Plasma/Panel
> - kickoff: should we enabel change on hoover?
> - pager: should we show icons in 1 row (better for horiyontal panel)?
> - pager: should we enable icons by default?
> - digital clock: year is not that useful, I would replace if with weekday
>
> We can probably discuss config changes on next meeting and if somebody
> wants, I can open individual bugs for some of the above (just ask).
>
> Regards,
> Luka




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