On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 14:52 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Initial thoughts of my first session. > > Activities: logged in, installed Firefox, flash plugin, livecd-tools. > Did some browsing. Tested a few plasma widgets. > > Duration: 20 minutes. > > Observations worth noting: > > 1) Plasma crashed during the login process. Actually, I think it was > just the folderview widget that crashed because it disappeared. > > 1a) At some point the KDE application launcher disappeared from the > panel. > > 1b) The solar desktop background didn't display, even though it appeared > during the boot up process and it appeared in the desktop background > list. The desktop background was plain blue. > > 2) The panel width adjustment system seems nicer in KDE4.1.3 than in > 4.1.8. > > 3) Ksynaptics wasn't installed. I didn't get around to installing it. > My touchpad was frustrating during the session. I think ksynaptics is a > MUST HAVE for KDE4.2, lest there be a mutiny on the fedora-users list. > > 4) The bouncing ball wasn't bouncing right and CPU load immediately went > to 100%. It was going extremely fast in the corner all by itself. It > killed normally and everything went back to normal. > > 5) The kick start KDE application launcher was ugly and didnt size > properly. The traditional launcher looked and worked fine. > > 6) I didn't see an option for installing an icon in the panel when using > the kick start launcher like I saw in KDE 4.1.3. I think it should ship > being able to do this. > > 7) One now has the option of ripping the konsole off of dolphin and then > putting it back on. As someone who continually works with console and > dolphin, this is beyond neat. Its incredible. I've been doing admin > work for 10 years and this is the neatest thing I have seen in a long, > long time. > > 7b) I downloaded a pdf and viewed it in Okular. It only showed 1 page. > I am not sure if the pdf was more than 1 page or not. I'll check > later. > > 8) The session froze and then crashed when I attempted to add a > folderview widget to my desktop. I wanted to test dragging and dropping > files from a folderview to dolphin, etc. > > This is the first time I've run a beta. I'm not sure if this experience > is par for the course or not. > > I'd say that if we want a good KDE4.2 release, we need to test the hell > out of it. I highly recommend that the release ISO be bumped from a CD > to a DVD and that debug tools, ksynaptics and firefox be added to it. > Maybe more. > > I highly recommend that KDE4.2 ISOs be generated and released regularly, > maybe daily. There is a lot to test here and if we don't test it before > the release, we'll be testing it after the release. One more thing... as someone on the kdesig group said "lest I sound picky I am consistently amazed by the rapid progress of the KDE4 platform!" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
