Kubuntu a dist in crisis?

[Clay Weber]

On Saturday 24 October 2009 05:20:55 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 24 October 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> Me too. I have stayed with Kubuntu Hardy and intend to stay put until I
> >> can see that KDE4 is really sorted out.
> >

Many thanks and much praise to Dotan for all the effort he is doing on our 
behalf. It is terribly difficult to figure out what "until I can see that KDE4 is 
really sorted out" actually means without more specifics. As this differs for 
each of us, it must be a somewhat daunting task.

> >Please test KDE 4.3 and let me know which issues need to be sorted
> >out. I will help file bugs on them. Thanks.
> 
This is key. Even a livecd  run from a disk or via a flash drive is an easy way 
to do this without having to do a full install or running it from Virtualbox. 
It is the primary method I use to check out Ubuntu/Gnome. I try running that 
for a week about once a year as my primary OS; I usually last 3-4 days before 
going back to my beloved KDE.

Unfortunately some of those still waiting  for KDE4 to be exactly like KDE3 
will ultimately be disappointed. While the differences between the 2 are far, 
far less than the differences between, say Gnome and KDE, there are 
probably enough things that cannot or will not be done. We need to provide 
more input to minimize what those things are through users using and 
testing.

> I used to be able to fwd a message in several different modes in kmail, but
> since the last update, that menu option is empty.  But that is on an F10
> install, so its off topic here, but...
> 
... I have the usual options here in 1.12.2 (KDE 4.3.2) in Karmic, both from 
the toolbar and from the right-click context menu


clay