[PC-BSD Testing] New PCBSD7 Alpha with KDE 4.1

[Bill Leeper]

After giving it another go this morning I have to say I agree with a  
lot of what Brian is saying. I was going to report a lot of what he  
wrote but won't have to now. I will go ahead and switch to the old  
menu so I can test a bit more because as it stands now about all I can  
do is surf the internet with it. I don't think the new menu is  
unintuitive so much as it is different. I get the same feeling using  
it that I get when I have to use a PC with Vista on it. Also, I have  
noticed that it is a bit slower when opening programs and windows. It  
seems to pause for several seconds when moving scroll bars. I suspect  
this will change as KDE 4 gets more work.

On the positive side, the installer is excellent as usual. The desktop  
looks very nice and I can figure most things out with a little playing  
around. It is obvious that you people have put a lot of work into it,  
but it has a long way to go before I can really use it, instead of  
Edison. Hopefully there will be another Alpha soon that makes this  
possible. And I agree on the DVD instead of CD issue. I am glad you  
are going to do that.


On Jul 4, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Tim McCormick wrote:

>> - multiple CDs , why not one DVD ?
>
> This is planned before PCBSD 7 Final
>
>> - the new kick off menu , at least for me , is horribly unintuitive  
>> - I
>> seen no way to change it
>
> You can remove the new menu from the panel, and then add the  
> 'Application
> Launcher Menu' if you want the old style menu back. Personally I  
> rather like
> the new one :)
>
>> - I couldn't find a shortcut to update ports or system source
>
> Start -> System Settings -> System Manager (at the bottom). Albeit,  
> it isn't
> working yet.
>
>> - konsole gave me a black box - literally  , no prompt , nothing
>
> Known problem with KDE4 on FreeBSD. Use xterm instead until we get  
> it fixed.
>
>> - The icons ( or widgets I guess ) were in some kind of semi
>> transparent  boxes that , to me anyways , clutter up the desktop .
>
> That's the KDE4 desktop philosophy. The desktop isn't somewhere for  
> just
> icons, it's somewhere for plasma widgets. One of the widgets is a so
> called 'folder view' so you can use it in the old way. I believe  
> there's also
> a way to set the desktop containment to a folder view so it behaves  
> in the
> old fashioned way, but you'd have to google to find how, I've not  
> looked into
> it.
>
> -- 
> Tim McCormick
> PC-BSD Lead Developer
> tim at pcbsd.org
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