Kubuntu experience

[Brian Astill]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:51, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:
> Alle 03:29, sabato 16 aprile 2005, Daniel Robitaille ha scritto:

> > > No Firefox, no emacs, no gnumeric (because it's gnome?) no
> > > abiword (same reason?).  You have kate, but not kwrite or kedit. 
> > > Why not a single game?  No xmms or xine, no kuickshow, no gimp. 
> > > So it goes on...
> >
> > have you tried to installed any of these applications? 

I wanted to ask why they weren't there on the install iso.  For example, 
Mozilla Firefox is supplied as part of the warty install, so why is it 
missing from kubuntu?

> > they are 
> > all a few mouse clicks away from being available if they were not
> > installed during the installation.

As I pointed out, kynaptic will not accept either mine or my root 
passwords - so no install possible via this route..
[later] I see aptitude was installed and fortunately that does work 
(though capriciously, it demands MY password, not root's).

>: if
> you have Gnome installed and you add kde to the system, in kde you
> end up with almost useless menus.

Maybe I am misunderstanding you.  I have downloaded kde onto my warty 
(default gnome) system.  I have selected kde as my default session.  
Everything looks and works just fine.

> Anyway... I'm attaching my /etc/xdg/menu/applications.menu file.
> It works well with kde. In gnome it is a proper mess!
>
Thank you.  That is most helpful.

> > > I am not allowed to log in as root.  Frankly this is MOST
> > > unsatisfactory.  I need to be able to take total control of my
> > > own system, please.
> >
> > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RootSudo

sudo is dangerous and also awkward for anything other than an occasional 
need.  I want to be able to log in as root and do a number of things at 
the same "sitting".  eg setting up a network can be a real nuisance if 
you have to sudo all the time - especially as one faces (in ububtu) a 
15 minute time limit before you have to reaffirm your password.
In any case this is linux, not Redmond_OS.  I should not be denied full 
access to my own system. 


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Regards,
Brian