Comments for The Blog is Hot... http://mschlander.wordpress.com Martin Schlander's blog about free software and more Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:27:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Slowly migrating to KDE4 by mschlander http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/slowly-migrating-to-kde4/#comment-160 mschlander Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:43:08 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-160 GNU wallpaper is available here: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/GNU+Logo?content=72025 GNU wallpaper is available here:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/GNU+Logo?content=72025

]]> Comment on Slowly migrating to KDE4 by Albert http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/slowly-migrating-to-kde4/#comment-159 Albert Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:07:58 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-159 Hi, Just a short q: The GNU wallpaper in your first screenie, is it available for download somewhere? Thanks! Hi,
Just a short q: The GNU wallpaper in your first screenie, is it available for download somewhere?

Thanks!

]]> Comment on Slowly migrating to KDE4 by Jonas http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/slowly-migrating-to-kde4/#comment-158 Jonas Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:08:13 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-158 I've been running KDE4 as my only DE since 4.0.1, and I agree: it's matured a lot. I'm currently running 4.0.84 from Suse 11's factory, and it works great although with a few regressions from 4.0.x but the devs knows about them so I'm confident they will be fixed in time for 4.1.final (the desktop grid works only partially for example). The biggest gripe I have as of now is that some of my fav programs are at best in late alpha...Amarok, K3B and Digikam being the most obvious ones and in Amarok's and K3B's case they are so far next to useless...but hey, that's to be expected of alphas. Then again...the latest KDE3 version of K3B seems to be broken too. It refuses to recognize (and use) what kind of disc is in the drive - a problem neither Nero or Brasero has. Feels kinda odd that Gnome programs (and one proprietary at that) work better in KDE than a KDE native one... Oh, and a tip: there's a better way of getting Oxygen icons in firefox. Better because it works for every gtk-app you happen to have (in my case, Firefox, Gimp, Brasero, and Nero). Make sure gtk-qt-engine is installed (available in factory/community). It "translates" gtk-icons into using whatever you have set as your icon theme in KDE. Now I only need to get that damn kgtk-wrapper to compile properly so I can get rid of the nasty gtk-fileselector... I’ve been running KDE4 as my only DE since 4.0.1, and I agree: it’s matured a lot. I’m currently running 4.0.84 from Suse 11’s factory, and it works great although with a few regressions from 4.0.x but the devs knows about them so I’m confident they will be fixed in time for 4.1.final (the desktop grid works only partially for example).

The biggest gripe I have as of now is that some of my fav programs are at best in late alpha…Amarok, K3B and Digikam being the most obvious ones and in Amarok’s and K3B’s case they are so far next to useless…but hey, that’s to be expected of alphas.

Then again…the latest KDE3 version of K3B seems to be broken too. It refuses to recognize (and use) what kind of disc is in the drive - a problem neither Nero or Brasero has. Feels kinda odd that Gnome programs (and one proprietary at that) work better in KDE than a KDE native one…

Oh, and a tip: there’s a better way of getting Oxygen icons in firefox. Better because it works for every gtk-app you happen to have (in my case, Firefox, Gimp, Brasero, and Nero). Make sure gtk-qt-engine is installed (available in factory/community). It “translates” gtk-icons into using whatever you have set as your icon theme in KDE.

Now I only need to get that damn kgtk-wrapper to compile properly so I can get rid of the nasty gtk-fileselector…

]]> Comment on The low down on openSUSE 11.0 by Malte Christensen http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-low-down-on-opensuse-110/#comment-157 Malte Christensen Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:53:05 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-157 You could have easily disable Sorry, if I have to beg to differ: Having used Linux since 1998 or thereabouts, I daresay I am no stranger to solving things myself. If, after an hour of so, I can't figure out a) why such a silly thing as a sound when switching desktops was implemented as default in the first place and b) how to get rid of it, then I submit that it is not 'easy', or, at the very least, not intuitive. ;-) You could have easily disable

Sorry, if I have to beg to differ: Having used Linux since 1998 or thereabouts, I daresay I am no stranger to solving things myself. If, after an hour of so, I can’t figure out a) why such a silly thing as a sound when switching desktops was implemented as default in the first place and b) how to get rid of it, then I submit that it is not ‘easy’, or, at the very least, not intuitive. ;-)

]]> Comment on The low down on openSUSE 11.0 by mschlander http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-low-down-on-opensuse-110/#comment-156 mschlander Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:07:12 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-156 Like the blog suggest, demanding users should avoid KDE 4.0 and use KDE3.5. You could have easily disabled the annoying KWin sounds like this: systemsettings -> Notifications -> Select KWin in the combo box. Like the blog suggest, demanding users should avoid KDE 4.0 and use KDE3.5.

You could have easily disabled the annoying KWin sounds like this:
systemsettings -> Notifications -> Select KWin in the combo box.

]]> Comment on The low down on openSUSE 11.0 by Malte Christensen http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-low-down-on-opensuse-110/#comment-155 Malte Christensen Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:42:09 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-155 Couldn't figure out how to remove the annoying BOIING sound when changing virtual desktops in KDE. Also KDE screwed up my fonts after I activated compiz. Switched to Gnome and am now much happier. Been using Ubuntu since 7.1, now back to OpenSuSE on my T61p. Still takes 90 seconds to boot, though. Using my Asus EEE PC 15 second boot times for relief when travelling ;-) Couldn’t figure out how to remove the annoying BOIING sound when changing virtual desktops in KDE. Also KDE screwed up my fonts after I activated compiz. Switched to Gnome and am now much happier. Been using Ubuntu since 7.1, now back to OpenSuSE on my T61p. Still takes 90 seconds to boot, though. Using my Asus EEE PC 15 second boot times for relief when travelling ;-)

]]> Comment on The low down on openSUSE 11.0 by Winfried http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-low-down-on-opensuse-110/#comment-154 Winfried Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:04:33 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-154 I downloaded the Live CD image for KDE and played around with it for a while. SUSE in general is not bad, version 10.0 and 10.2 were so so. I think the live CD is not for real work. It is just to look at it. F.I. : I was not able to set up the NIC via Yast because the configuration data was not saved anywhere. I had to do it via the command line. This is not a job for Joe Average. My vote is A- or B+ for SUSE 11.0 I downloaded the Live CD image for KDE and played around with it for a while.
SUSE in general is not bad, version 10.0 and 10.2 were so so.
I think the live CD is not for real work. It is just to look at it.
F.I. : I was not able to set up the NIC via Yast because the configuration data was not saved anywhere. I had to do it via the command line. This is not a job for Joe Average.
My vote is A- or B+ for SUSE 11.0

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]]> Comment on Bedre oversættelse af KDE? by Toothily http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/bedre-overs%c3%a6ttelse-af-kde/#comment-151 Toothily Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:16:18 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=33#comment-151 Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway ... nice blog to visit. cheers, Toothily. Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Toothily.

]]> Comment on The low down on openSUSE 11.0 by Tom http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-low-down-on-opensuse-110/#comment-150 Tom Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:51:58 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-150 >>>>Package management Huge improvements in this area. Package managment with YaST2 or zypper is literally 10-15 times faster than on 10.3. <<<Comment by Archetype: Great. Another buggy, bloated, disappointing and over-hyped release of SuSE. New! Now 10-15x faster! Look for performance percentage increases in the 100x neighborhood before wasting another DVD on this 10-ton, over-patched, slug of an OS that just barely resembles UNIX.< Archtype, you are poor at maths! :-) 10 x times faster is much more than 100% faster. But I am NOT CONVINCED that the REAL-WORLD SPEED is that much faster or that it will be anywhere near the speed of Synaptic Package Manager for .deb packages, e.g. in Ubuntu. Repo refreshing speed improvements (the amount of data that is downloaded in this task) did NOT make it into 11.0 and are scheduled for 11.1. >>>>Package management
Huge improvements in this area. Package managment with YaST2 or zypper is literally 10-15 times faster than on 10.3. <<<Comment by Archetype:
Great. Another buggy, bloated, disappointing and over-hyped release of SuSE.
New! Now 10-15x faster!
Look for performance percentage increases in the 100x neighborhood before wasting another DVD on this 10-ton, over-patched, slug of an OS that just barely resembles UNIX.<

Archtype, you are poor at maths! :-)
10 x times faster is much more than 100% faster.

But I am NOT CONVINCED that the REAL-WORLD SPEED is that much faster or that it will be anywhere near the speed of Synaptic Package Manager for .deb packages, e.g. in Ubuntu. Repo refreshing speed improvements (the amount of data that is downloaded in this task) did NOT make it into 11.0 and are scheduled for 11.1.

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