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| Thread ID: 120619 | 2011-09-17 06:26:00 | Transitioning from Windows to Linux. Woohoo! | baabits (15242) | PC World Chat |
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| 1231954 | 2011-09-19 06:26:00 | Exactly. wainuitech: It didn't work in 11.04 because gnomenu is not compatible with 11.04. Thanks for the information Cato :thumbs: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1231955 | 2011-09-19 06:32:00 | If you're referring to what I think, it's the gconf editor - Gnome apps have used this config database for years. Yes that name does sound familiar. I didn't know it was an older program, as I don't believe I've seen it in Ubuntu before 10.04 (but maybe I just didn't look\know!) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1231956 | 2011-09-19 06:58:00 | Yes that name does sound familiar. I didn't know it was an older program, as I don't believe I've seen it in Ubuntu before 10.04 (but maybe I just didn't look\know!)It was definitely there - it's been around for ages - but it hasn't exactly been made obvious. I personally hate the damn thing - thankfully it's very rare for me to use anything that depends on it; I'm largely a KDE guy. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1231957 | 2011-09-19 07:25:00 | I liked KDE3 but KDE4 (or at least Kubuntu's implementation of it) was buggy and horrible and slow so I switched to Gnome. Now with that Unity thing I might not be long before I switch back, apparently Ubuntu 11.10 will not support classic Gnome. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1231958 | 2011-09-19 07:33:00 | I liked KDE3 but KDE4 (or at least Kubuntu's implementation of it) was buggy and horrible...Kubuntu's implementation of it is most likely your problem - KDE has always been very much an afterthought on that platform. If you want to see a distro that does KDE4 well, take a look at Fedora, openSUSE, or Gentoo. Note that 4.0 and 4.1 were also complete train-wrecks - they were effectively alpha & beta releases, rather than the final releases that the version numbers would seem to indicate. The first release of KDE4 that could really be considered usable was 4.2. These days, KDE is at 4.7, and is an extremely stable and fully-featured desktop environment. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1231959 | 2011-09-19 08:22:00 | If you want to see a distro that does KDE4 well, take a look at Fedora, openSUSE, or Gentoo. PCLinuxOS also do a good job of KDE. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1231960 | 2011-09-19 10:30:00 | I just remembered one weird thing I don't like about KDE4: the thick borders around things... such as when you select a menu item: 3164 The selection area doesn't go all the way to the edges of the item's... area, nor to the edges of the menu itself. Unlike Gnome, or Windows, where the highlighted section encompasses the entire item to the edges of it etc. I know it makes absolutely no difference to the actual size of things, but for some reason it just makes the interface feel weird and bloated for me in some way, and gives the impression of wasted space. Do you know what I'm saying, or do I just sound completely crazy? :lol: |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1231961 | 2011-09-19 11:35:00 | That's configurable - if it annoys you, just change it :). Unlike Gnome, KDE doesn't try to dictate what you should use by removing all the options! |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1231962 | 2011-09-19 12:34:00 | But the Kubuntu team probably took away all the options in the spirit of being "user friendly" :rolleyes: How does one change such an option? I will have to try it out! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1231963 | 2011-09-20 03:05:00 | But the Kubuntu team probably took away all the options in the spirit of being "user friendly" :rolleyes: How does one change such an option? I will have to try it out!It's part of the Oxygen theme. If you're talking about the window border size, it can be changed via System Settings >> Workspace Appearance and Behavior >> Workspace Appearance >> Window Decorations >> Oxygen >> Configure Decoration >> General >> Border Size. If you're talking about the interior menu padding, that's part of the Oxygen theme's default widget style - if this is the issue, the solution is to switch to a widget style that lacks this padding. This can be done via System Settings >> Application Appearance >> Style >> Applications >> Widget Style. |
Erayd (23) | ||
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