jaunty the worst ever

[Mike McGinn]

Thanks for replying, I have commented below yours.

On Sunday 17 May 2009 08:00:08 pm Pastor JW wrote:
> On Sunday 17 May 2009 3:03:50 pm Mike McGinn wrote:
> > I just upgraded to jaunty from intrepid on my Dell Inspiron Laptop with 4
> > Gig of memory and a 320G hard drive. This is the buggiest KDE
> > distribution I have ever used - I have not seen such problems with
> > updating display rectangles since Windows 3.0. I thought the version of
> > KDE shipped with Intrepid was not ready for prime time - I was amazed
> > that Jaunty is actually worse.
>
> You're correct but on the other hand it is, even as poor as it is, better
> than Gnome by light years and they are about to get their's too as they
> dump their somewhat stable platform, so be happy!
>
I don't know about that. I just installed the Gnome desktop, and at a quick 
glance it is better than the KDE as fas as just basically working. For 
instance, my power manager and google desktop icons have not disappeared under 
Gnome. I run Kmail under Gnome just fine. I think I'll stay with the Gnome 
desktop for a while. I can live without the plasma thank you.

> > Kmail is another set of issues. With 5+ years of contacts and email
> > stored, as well as about 200 filters on incoming mail, switching mail
> > clients is not a possibility. One would think Kmail would not have errors
> > at this late state rendering text in the messages window. One would also
> > think that the people who design Kmail would have learned to put the
> > settings for the mail headers window where they could be found. Also, I
> > would think that the folders window could remember what columns I want
> > displayed between settings. In Intrepid Kmail could not remember the
> > window size I wanted, now it remembers the window size but forgets a
> > bunch of other stuff. LAY OFF THE DRUGS GUYS!
>
> So far your best bet is to stay with 8.04 even though you'll need to stay
> with an older version of kmail for a bit. Ingo is also working with a
> moving target!
I should have, but when I got the new Dell the display was messed up and a few 
other things did not work with 8.04. I read in the Ubuntu forums that 8.10 
worked quite well on the Inspiron laptops, so I went for it. I should not have 
gone with KDE 3, I think that was the big mistake. KDE 4 is just not ready 
yet.

>
> > So, since Kubuntu seems to be getting incrementally worse instead of
> > improving it is time to ignore all the hype and start looking for a
> > distro where they actually do testing before release.
> >
> > Jaunty Jackalope my Irish Ass! More like Jaunty Jackass.
>
> Perhaps they are pushing updates too fast, but I think it is rather they
> are taking too big of bites.  The major problem I see is the trying to
> become mickeysoft like.  That is the thing most of us would rather avoid at
> all costs including dumping a distro that becomes that way.  This is the
> thing the developers really need to wake up to or find themselves out of
> work. Users tend to lose patience real fast when frustrated.  I have tried
> to support this distro in several ways because it was factory installed on
> this Dell and that shows some promise, but then even my good nature can be
> stretched too thin.
I think they are definitely pushing things out too fast. I don't know why, 
Vista bombed, so there is no rush. I truly hope they get their act together - 
even if it means slowing the pace of development.

Again, thanks for your thoughtful response.
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