some misfeatures in the powerpc edition of Breezy

[Albert]

>> kded ...
> Is that the same as http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10193 ?
> 
> It works for me in dapper (I didn't have a powerpc during breezy).
> Killing ivman will stop automounting in breezy, remove it 
from /usr/bin/startkde

Good news then, but I can't make a dist-upgrade to a beta: I use my kubuntu 
computer as a production station. I expect dapper to be ready for april?
On the meanwhile, will killing ivman and removing it from 
the /usr/bin/startkde solve the issue completely, meaning, when not inserting 
but mounting a CD won't kded try to mess around?

I've sent an email to ubuntu-devel on battery savings issues regarding 
updatedb, and also about the airport.

And while at it: the kwifimanager is a joke. It doesn't do what it claims. 
I've been told that one can succesfully connect wireless by manually 
configuring some file in the /etc. Is there any known and reliable 
documentation on such a file?


> > - konqueror images: when loading images in full, many times a yellowish 
tint 
> > is set over the image right after the image has been properly loaded and 
> > displayed. I have no clue as to why this happens.
> 
> That's a problem with gwenview on powerpc, you could ask backports to
> backport 1.3 which is fixed.

Who or what is this entity, 'backports'?

apt-cache tells me that current gwenview version is 1.2. Can't it be installed 
in KDE 3.4?

Have you tried KDE 3.5? Is it stable and reliable as 3.4 is? Is there any 
package for powerpc (apparently not in the kubuntu site yet) ?


> Free software java is far from perfect I'm afraid, but getting better
> all the time.

kaffe and gcj are miles away from 1.4.2 and 1.5.0, I'm afraid. Most of my java 
development is GUI-related, and it just doesn't hold in kaffe or gcj.

> Thanks for your feedback, powerpc gets little enough testing, testers
> for flight CD candidates are especially welcome.


What do you mean by flight CD, a live CD ? I can test a live CD for dapper, no 
problem, but as I said I can't install it: I need to trust my machine 
completely.

Thanks for your suggestions Jonathan.

Albert

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