Kubuntu 16.10 is out!

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Stephen Morris
<samorris at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> On 24/10/16 08:10, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>
>> On 23/10/16 10:39, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>>>
>>> Reply inline.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Stephen Morris
>>> <samorris at netspace.net.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 21/10/16 09:34, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Removing the -devel list since this is a support question.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Stephen Morris
>>>>> <samorris at netspace.net.au> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 14/10/16 15:29, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi folks, I'm sure most of you have heard by now, but just in case:
>>>>>>> Kubuntu 16.10 has been released, along with all flavors of Ubuntu.

::snip old::

> Just one question relative to Gnome if you are able to answer it. Having
> installed the gnome package I now have entries in the Display Manager menu
> on the login screen of Gnome, Gnome Classic, Gnome Flashback (Compiz) and
> Gnome Flashback (Metacity) all which seem to boot into Gnome now. Originally
> Gnome Flashback (Compiz) crashed on first start. If I boot into any of the
> last 4 Gnome entries, they all have menu entries of Applications and Places
> in the title bar at the top of the screen, but if I boot with the Gnome
> entry the title bar at the top of the screen has the entry Activities, why
> is this (under Fedora 24 the Gnome system has Applications in the title bar
> at the top of the screen)?

No clue about Gnome. I've never used it for more than 5 minutes.

> Having appearing to have Gnome working I have also installed the Plasma
> package which appears to have installed a working version of Plasma (hence
> I'm not sure why the upgrade from 16.04 to 16.10 destroyed my system) and
> that install has only placed one Plasma entry in the DM login screen
> selections. I'll have to monitor what packages I subsequently install
> introduces the additional entry.
> One gripe I have with Plasma in 16.10 is that the icons on the bottom of the
> KDE Launcher, and the icons on the options displayed when selecting Leave,
> are all wireframe icons which I don't like. These icons are the main reason
> I am looking at moving away from KDE under Fedora, as I could not find any
> way of changing them by changing the system theme or icon theme. Is there no
> way to get back the nice coloured icons that were there in 16.04?
>
> regards,
> Steve

That is Breeze. The Oxygen icon set is still available for those who want it.

Valorie

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