[kubuntu-users] Re: kubuntu vs ubuntu

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:37:12PM +0200, Simon R??nnqvist wrote:
> Yes some things in Kubuntu don't seem to be working properly, yet.
> Since I too like the KDE application suite more I also thought I'd use those 
> applications through Kubuntu (even though it'd be possible through Ubuntu 
> too). When it comes to the default looks I think both Ubuntu and Kubuntu 
> could look better, but that's easily changed for both of them.

Suggestions very welcome.

> The worst showstopper for Kubuntu right now seems to be the poorly working 
> settings (in Breezy). (And maybe the fact that CD:s don't open in Konqueror.) 
> As a temporary solution I just downloaded gnome-system-tools to get properly 
> working configuration tools that way. But you'll have to edit the menu a 
> little bit to get them working properly. (Just remove the gksudo before each 
> command and enable run as different user, and maybe remove duplicates.)

Automounting is fixed with the updates in breezy-updates.

> But there are two bugs which I've found both in Hoary and in Breezy on the 
> PowerPC version. One is that image smoothing screws up the thumbnail and 
> smaller than normal size views of images. In Gwenview one can set the image 
> smoothing to Normal, Best or None instad of the default Fast to make it 
> alright. But I haven't figured out how to do that change in
> Konqueror. 

Do you have a bugzilla number for that?

> Another problem which I'm not sure wether it's PowerPC specific or not is 
> that one seems to be unable of saving changes to the default gateway through 
> the network settings. The fact that these bugs are found in both versions 
> make me a bit worried about wether they're ever going to be fixed.

This is a priority and will be fixed.

Jonathan