Fwd: Re: Fwd: Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Tuesday 02 March 2010, Alvin wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2010 11:10:47 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 March 2010, Alvin wrote:
> > <snippety-snip>
> > 
> > > Also, I hope that the upgrade process will be reviewed for
> > > Lucid. Look at all the reports about Akonadi not starting, or
> > > starting with errors.
> > 
> > Since this is no official upgrade but rather a PPA, why would
> > they? You *do* know that using PPAs may fuck up your system?
> 
> Read my sentence again. 'for Lucid'. Karmic users that use 4.3.5
> will receive the upgrade to 4.4 when they upgrade to Lucid.

Ah, I misinterpreted that. In that case what should the packagers do? 
Stay with an unmaintained version of KDE for an *LTS* release?!? 
Especially since for a lot of users like me, quite a few things were 
fixed...
There really is no perfect solution in this case. Either decision is 
going to piss off a few users. What should be done is to display a 
big fat warning that kaddressbook will become unusable with this 
upgrade...

> > > BTW, Akonadi Sources in System Settings? How did you put it
> > > back there?
> > 
> > You don't. You access it via the akonaditray application.
> 
> Clay Weber said: 'Akonadi sources (in System Settings)'. I know
> upstream has decided their users are too dumb, so they removed it
> from the 'Advanced Settings' tab. I only want to know if there is
> a way to put it back. Just being in the 'Advanced' tab should be
> warning enough that you can destroy data there. If I wanted the
> OS (or DE) to hide settings for me, I would have chosen an Apple
> or Microsoft OS.

I hear you. I, personally, would like it back, too, but I don't 
really care enough about it now that I know how to do it the 
akonaditray way...
(Oh, and for some of us, there is no "Advanced" tab - I prefer the 
tree view... But then that's hardly anything a user "too dumb to set 
up Akonadi" would likely have...)

  --Reinhold