4.2 seems to be missing lots of stuff

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 15:18 -0700, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Jonas Norlander said the following at 02/09/2009 03:02 PM :
> > 2009/2/9 D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com>:
> >> I just "updated" my laptop to 4.2 using the procedure outlined at
> >> www.kubuntu.org.
> >>
> >>
> >> It seems to be more or less useless, and missing a ton of stuff that I rely on.
> >>
> >> Just to state the things that I've come across in about the first 30 seconds:
> >>  plasma_applet_notes
> >>  kwifimanager
> >>  showdashboard
> >>  quickaccess
> >>
> > 
> > As far as iI know KDE 4.2 has everything that 4.1 has and more. Knotes
> > and the notes plasmoid is there, showdashboard is there and so are
> > quickaccess are you shure you installed all plasmoids? Do a search and
> > see if you miss some.
> 
> I just followed the instructions; no more, no less.
> 
> The whole thing's a disaster.
> 
> I'm reinstalling 8.10 and reminding myself never, ever to use unreleased
> stuff again.
> 
> I don't know why I succumbed to the temptation to use PPA. You'd think that
> the fact that I have never, ever failed to regret using unsupported
> packages would have sunk in by now.
> 
> I'm sure that other people have had great success. They were lucky. This
> used to happen with monotonous regularity in the Mandrake/Mandriva days,
> until I swore I'd never do it again.
> 
>   Doc

It was pure Hope on your end, Doc. Been there, done that, got the
T-shirt. Heck, I might be tempted to do something like that myself
again, some day, but I hope it's not soon. <grins> Ric

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