[kubuntu-users] Re: kubuntu vs ubuntu

[Simon Rönnqvist]

On Saturday 05 November 2005 19:15, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> 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.

  Well... I've got nothing but opinions to share... ;-)
But for Kubuntu and KDE in general a problem is that people get put of by it's 
M$ Windowish look. In fact I think that KDE is more innovative and less 
conservative than ie. Gnome. Therefore it having Windowish looks and blue 
colors (which symbolizes conservatism according to color psychology) may not 
contribute to the most appropriate image.

Personally I'm using a theme which I made out of the default theme: 
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=28190
In the theme the default icons are used but colored green. I've found that 
coloring icons for anything but the 'active' hovering effect isn't always a 
good idea. So instead I downloaded another slightly less blueish (than 
Crystal SVG) iconset, namely Crystal Clear by the same author. But hey, this 
is just how I like it. ;-) Anyways, less Windows-like and maybe less blueish 
could be a good thing.

When it comes to Ubuntu I dislike the window style and maybe the icons a 
little bit. I prefer using Clearlooks for the Window borders with the Human 
Controls, and just some other icons than the default GNOME ones maybe Human 
or Sandy.

> > 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.

  Oh, thanks for the hint... I hadn't noticed the updates. ;-)
Is there any kind of update notification thing for Kubuntu as there is by 
default in Ubuntu? Of course one can install and use the Ubuntu one, but 
maybe there'd be a KDE-version.

> > 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?

  No not really, I just found some hints about it here: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=34192
Anyways, I Googled up this for you... a bug that needs to be reopened:
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8578

> > 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.

Great!
Well let's say... now I feel even more confident that I'm doing the right 
thing in using Kubuntu Breezy on my PowerBook... ;-)

  cheers, Simon