kubuntu vs ubuntu

[Xurxo Fernandez]

I dont agree with the M$ish look... ok, we might be using blue color, but
overall i feel gnome behaving more like windows. Like when i click and move
a file in ubuntu i will move/copy while in kubuntu it will ask me what i 
wanna
do. I.E. the one click in kubuntu will open the file instead of the 
M$/ubuntu double click way
Kubuntu might use 1 bars on the desktop like windows but thats it. Even 
gnome double bar looks more windowish to me. The only desktop that is really 
different could be macos with the dock.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Rönnqvist" <simon at iki.fi>
To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 17:37
Subject: Re: kubuntu vs ubuntu


  Hi!

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.

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.)

I think Kubuntu has potential, but it needs to get a bunch of bugs fixed.
Fortunately Hoary has much less bugs than Breezy for now, and not much less
functionality... so for somebody unpatient about having the bugs in Breezy
fixed it could be a good choice.

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.
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.

  cheers, Simon


On Saturday 05 November 2005 13:49, Xurxo Fernandez wrote:
> Hi,
> I´ve been using kubuntu for a couple of months. It was the 1st time i had
> tried a linux os. After a failed upgrade to breezy i decided to give
> ubuntu
> a try. I´ve been using it for a few days and my impresion is that so far
> it
> works better than kubuntu. Wifi worked almost out of the box. I copied the
> firmware in the hotplug directories and configured it. Next time i
> rebooted
> wifi was working. In kubuntu i have to sudo iwconfig wlan0 and add the
> channel, wep key and then sudo route add default gw (there is a script to
> solve that issue though). I could also configured anything i wanted
> through
> the GUI while in kubuntu the administrator button doesnt work most of the
> times so i had to sudo kcontrol. But sincerely, after a few days i have
> come back to kubuntu because i do like better kde programs. I like kopete
> and kmail and i love the fact that konqueror could do almost anything,
> from
> surfing the web to check out samba shared folders, open pdf, etc. And then
> there is the eye-candy factor, gnome is plain ugly, almost like going back
> to win95 (i now you can change themes and stuff, but i´m talking about
> fresh instalations). So i´m back with kubuntu, trying to solve my sound
> problem that would make konqueror crash in websites with sounds and
> setting
> up superkaramba last version.

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