[vox] Why Ubuntu, Kubuntu?

[Brian Lavender]

I will drop that drive back into my 1420n and see what happens. Should I
have installed KUbuntu? What is the easiest way to get KDE?

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:26:43AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:30:31AM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > Actually, I see no reason to upgrade to 9.04 at the moment.
> 
> Ubuntu (GNOME), Kubuntu (KDE), Xubunut (XFCE) or something else?
> 
> Various bits of KDE4 irritate me on a daily basis, so I'm interested
> in seeing if they're better.  Three examples off the top of my head:
> 
>   * Konsole remembers the size of the latest window, so if I ever
>     click 'maximize', all future Konsoles are fullscreen until
>     I carefully and precisely resize one of them to 80 chars wide.
>     I see no way of saving/loading the terminal size, like I believe
>     Konsole in KDE 3 could do. :^(
> 
>   * Kate's "Recent Documents" is useless.  It's always empty!
> 
>   * Krunner doens't _actually_ launch apps ~50% the time.
>     ([Alt]+[F2] [K][A][T][E][Enter] ... nothin'.  *Confused swearing*
>     [Alt]+[F2] [K][A][T][E][Enter] ... Kate launches.  *Annoyed swearing*)
> 
> -bill!
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