[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE post 11.0 BAD NEWS - Need a new distro

[agoats at compuserve.com]

In the 9.10 version, they went to xmms2 which at least at the time, did 
not have a gui that worked like xmms, in fact, it seemed to not have 
anything that really worked from my experience. They also dropped 
kaudiocreator or had not ported it as yet in favor of some other CD 
ripper that was also too foreign for home. Keep in mind, my wife and 
kids migrated from Windows 98/XP to Kubuntu 8.04 and if the experience 
changes too much, they are easily lost. The KDE 4.0 format is not easy 
to work with, the themes are not as intuitive, background image 
management is changed, desktop icon line up is god know's where and 
what's with this idiotic tool box menu that keeps appearing every time 
you pass your mouse over the desktop icons?, the default menu seemed to 
follow Windows Vista and extremely ridiculous to have to click through 
each section to search for programs to use, it took me 2 days to find 
how to go back to the "old" format,  and on and on.

8.04 had all of the programs that were familiar to everyone at home, the 
look and feel was not so foreign and I had much less grief. Likewise, 
the DFWUUG has a project going on with the American Indian community and 
we are sticking to 8.04 for the same reason, familiarity with the 
interface. KDE 4 is too foreign and the software that was chosen in 
Kubuntu 9 likewise.

Since I'm a Slacker, note that KDE 4.0 is the format in Slackware 13 and 
I'm not happy there,either. However, Patrick Volkderding did include the 
widgets that let you line up the desktop icons. which was totally 
missing in Kubuntu.

Alvin

Robert Citek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:21 PM, agoats at compuserve.com
> <agoats at compuserve.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'm alive and running with Kubuntu 8.04. Don't plan on an immediate upgrade
>> to Kubuntu as I don't care much for the KDE 4.0 eye candy, lack of
>> immediately usable icon alignment on the desktop, dropping xmms and
>> kaudiocreator, etc.
>>     
>
> Dunno about the KDE usability, but xmms and kaudiocreator are there:
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/xmms2
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/kaudiocreator
>
> Or did you mean something else by "dropping"?
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
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