is it Kubuntu or is it KDE?

BHASKAR SHARMA.N bhaskarsharma.n at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 09:40:40 UTC 2010


I manually installed nvidia-195.run pack obtained from their site for
my geforce6100 nforce400..resolution changed to 320x240 from
800x600(optimum was 1024x768)! I cleaned up that drive..

On 8/30/10, BHASKAR SHARMA.N <bhaskarsharma.n at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Kde developers mostly involved only to improve the
> visuals,don't bother about the consistency or stability of current
> version.I'd once used kubuntu 9.10 64bit version. Was a great trouble,
> good visuals and UI..but nothing was functioning well. So
> decided,always to use gnome 32bit,which's seen the best in working..
>
> On 8/30/10, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Luca Ferrari wrote:
>>> the network applet is unable to connect me to
>>> a not WPA2-PSK access point, my broadband modem is recognized, but
>>> does not work, and in general the desktop is too much slow when
>>> switching between applications.
>>
>> You could try the Gnome version of the network applet by installing the
>> package network-manager-gnome and uninstall the packages network-
>> manager-kde and plasma-widget-networkmanagement (whichever is
>> installed). Then run the command
>>
>> nm-applet
>>
>> from ALT-F2.
>>
>>> Moreover, konqueror is freezing
>>> sometimes and making the whole desktop locked for almost a minute.
>>
>> For me konqueror (used as file manager) freezes if there is a window
>> with a NFS share open while there is heavy traffic on the (wireless)
>> link to that share. Maybe it is a similar reason for you?
>>
>>> So far, I'm considering a concrete desktop switch, and the
>>> application I will miss the more is KMail (in my opinion even
>>> Evolution cannot compete).
>>
>> You can run any KDE application from other desktop managers. As you
>> don't like Gnome (I don't like it either), I would suggest you try xfce,
>> just install the package xubuntu-desktop. I played with it some time ago
>> and it was quite nice but finally I stayed with KDE.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
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> -BHASKAR SHARMA.N
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