KDE cashew [was: Arrangement of Icons. . . .]

[Ray Burke]

> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
> From: GrokIt at ajinfosearch.com
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: KDE cashew  [was: Arrangement of Icons. . . .]
> 
>  >  > > What is the "You change between Activities by clicking the cashew
>  >  > > at the
>  >  > > top right of your desktop background, and choose to zoom out."
>  >  > > as I am a newbie what the cashew????
>  >  > >
>  > 
>  > yes I am running K 8.04 with original KDE, am I able to upgrade to 8.10
>  > without
>  > any loss of data?????????
>  > 
> 
> I assume so, but there is always a small chance of complete failure.  If 
> I remember correctly, you have separate partitions for root and /home, 
> correct?   YES 3
 That will limit some possible failures.  Are you still having 
> that disk space problem? No  
There are a lot of packages to download.
> The thing is that 8.10 has KDE 4.1 as the default desktop environment 
> and it is not as full featured as 4.2.  You would have to get 4.2 from a 
> ppa repository and it is not officially supported.  I also had some 
> networking issues with Intrepid.  From what I am seeing from the 
> pre-released 9.04, these problems are gone.  April 23rd (26th?) is when 
> the real version comes out.  Take the time to read up on KDE 4 since it 
> is different than 3.5, maybe boot from an Intrepid live CD to get used 
> to it.
> 
> Johnny, Ray asked a question on the original thread and since I helped 
> him before, I answered it.  He's running 8.10 with KDE 3.5.10
> 
> -- 
> Alan

> See above answers in red!!!!!!!!

ray


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