KDE4.3 beta issues

[Karl F. Larsen]

David Fox wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>     Alas, I am a Gnome user and with KDE I can't find basic things I
>> use daily like a Terminal. The KDE Desktop has all the directories I
>> have on it and a movie uses the VLS viewer ok. But I have looked for
>> Wicd and it is working but hidden somewhere :-)
>>     
>
> Plenty of choices here. It's pretty standard to open up a new konsole
> with ALT-F2 and type the word konsole.
>
> I'm running 4.2 KDE on Jaunty at the moment. What PPA are you usiing
> that provides 4.3? I'd be more interested in what deficiencies there
> are with KDE 4.x (x approximating 2 for now, or perhaps 3) and what
> could be done better? A lot of what I see is just simply vague
> statements about kde not being ready, but it works OK for me.
>
>
>   
    I am using KDE 4.1 according to the panel that says so when I boot 
up. I started out not finding Firefox or a Terminal, two things I use a 
lot. I was just not smart enough to find these.

    Then I wrote "help" in one of the things on the "desktop" and up 
came Kubuntu help. This helped me find the green button with a K on it. 
I fiddled with that for a few minutes and found Internet and then 
Firefox which now runs fine in Kubuntu. Then I found a good replacement 
for Terminal which appears to work just like Terminal.

    I tried Alt-F2 and the one line panel came up. When I typed konsole 
and a Terminal was made.

    My opinion on the problem with Kubuntu is it is new and users of 
Gnome can't find things like me, and they say "it does not work right". 
Something Gnome does is it has Help right up front. I think Kubuntu 
should as well. I was just lucky to have the Alt-F2 panel up somehow, 
and I typed help :-)


Karl


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