Comments on: Linux Mint 10 KDE: User Input

By: stefdapimp

stefdapimp — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:25:34 +0000

XBMC! again a user freindly virtual environment (for dummies) wizard style installation/setup

By: stefdapimp

stefdapimp — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:19:12 +0000

a harmony remote (for dummies) installation/setup wizard!!

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:41:11 +0000

Hi Boo:
A few suggestions…

1) despite what some say…please do include the kick off menu..many of us love it and like kit much better then the classic method…one can always right click and restore classic view, so i don’t know why those people say get rid of kick off..they don’t have to use it if they don’t want to, but why eliminate it for those who do like it?

2) not that crazy about the black trim around the “kick off” and the bottom panel, etc…perhaps a more kubuntu silver type color or a “metallic mac like look” such as the new mint menu in Mint 10 has…Or perhaps some type of variation on the mint menu…but please keep the slab menu option…

3) When you have time after the Mint 10 release, i hope you will consider doing the KDE version of Mint Debian..that would be awesome! If you do, please offer both versions (32 bit and 64 bit)..

Thanks for listening…

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:47:14 +0000

FOSS browsers – what I wanted to say: browsers that are developed by a reasonable stable community effort rather than by some company releasing code post hoc- like Firefox, Arora, Reconq, and Midori.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:39:27 +0000

-Green has become the corporrate identity of Mint. A green KDE theme would indeed be nice.

-I like the idea to have a list on the desktop that lists software, grouped according to tasks.

-The single QT4-based video player that consistently works for me is VLC.

My 3 cent on the browser wars in here:
– I like the idea to boost the publicity of the less well known FOSS-browsers
-A QT4-Gui would fit KDE
-I switched back and forth several times between Reconq and Arora. Both are QT4-webkit-based. Every time Arora had better functionality and less glitches. I’d vote for Arora.
– Google very much owns the development process of Chromium and it already is far too powerful. I don’t like the idea to make Chromium the dafault browser at all. Geeks who already know it, are aware of all implied consequences and risks and are still fascinated by it may install it. But Average Joe coming from Windows will continue to use what he get’s preinstalled and I am uncomfortable with the idea that Mint contributes to Google’s might _despite_ all those FOSS browsers that work fine.

-KOffice instead of OpenOffice/LibreOffice and GIMP. Why not?

-If Strigi/Nepomuk don’t work without glitches, you should have a patch that removes any buttons from the control center that hint at their existence. I think you’d just need to comment out some lines of code!? Unfortunatelly, it won’t be possible to completely remove those pieces of software, or will it? Anyway, it’s anoying to be reminded that these things don’t work. I install Recoll for desktop search, be it KDE, Gnome, XFCE, or LXDE.

By: johcker

johcker — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:45:25 +0000

add camfrog software

By: Kevin Hellman

Kevin Hellman — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:38:57 +0000

The fonts in Gnome seems to look better than in KDE sometimes – will the KDE version use the same fontconfig, cairo, etc packages as the Gnome version? (with some KDE centric distros GTK apps can look off)

By: Mic

Mic — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:32:12 +0000

ibus integration in the sense that CJK input can be activated even during live_cd.

I demo the live_cd to a group of students recently and noticed that their are 2 things that I am unable to demo using the live_cd

– restricted drivers, need to relogin after install (fair enough)
– cjk input, again need relogin after install (could be improved)

whereas most other applications can be started immediately after install.

A howto to enable ibus can be found here if you are interested http://lichao.net/eblog/how-to-input-chinese-cjk-in-english-ubuntu-9-10-200911429.html

By: Dupo

Dupo — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:59:15 +0000

Hi,

I’m agree with BK Singh. A backup and restore system like it’s available in OpenSuse and Window$ 😉

By: dangarrett

dangarrett — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:48:54 +0000

not a fan of meta packages. sometimes things to wonky when you remove (or attempt to remove) individual apps/drivers/etc. that were installed using a meta package.