Cassandra KDE Community Edition is out!
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Just wanted to congratulate the devs on this kde version. I wanted to like regular mint as it is beautiful and feature filled, but I just couldn't make myself like gnome, I'm a kde guy at heart.
I will be checking this out in the days ahead to see how it compares against my existing installs of pclinuxos, arch, and sidux.
I will be checking this out in the days ahead to see how it compares against my existing installs of pclinuxos, arch, and sidux.
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akshunj
A great debut, but some problems...
I think the over-arching theme here is that this was a great debut for the community-supported edition of mint-KDE. Not quite the level of polish we've come to expect, but we all know that Boo is new to this and he's doing his best. Let's just help him identify the bugs so he can come out of the gates even stronger next time. That's called "community involvement" and I'm sure he appreciates it.
That said, the upside here is huge! A *good* KDE menu?! I LOVE it! The standard KDE menu is a pile of crap that ultimately drove me to Mint. The Mint menu for both Gnome and KDE is the bomb. The Look N' Feel is awesome, and the speed and stability seems good. Adept is pretty slick. Didn't even know it existed till last week.
Downside. Too many of those stupid "K" applications taking up space in the menu. I don't even know what half of them do! Can we pare things down to "one task, one application", and the user can choose to install more afterwards? Also, there are some little niceties that should be enabled: white Ubuntu standard mouse pointer, NumLock on, disable the bouncing busy-cursor (sooooo annoying), etc. These are not show-stoppers, just things that contribute to the level of polish. Also, the default theme for KDE is gorgeous, but a tad buggy with some screen artifacts. At least, that's what I see using the Nvidia proprietary driver. Maybe another theme would be better.
Clearly, the install bug *is* a showstopper, so here's to a fixed 3.0r1 release!
Anyways, that's my 2 cents. Take it or leave it...
--Akshun J
That said, the upside here is huge! A *good* KDE menu?! I LOVE it! The standard KDE menu is a pile of crap that ultimately drove me to Mint. The Mint menu for both Gnome and KDE is the bomb. The Look N' Feel is awesome, and the speed and stability seems good. Adept is pretty slick. Didn't even know it existed till last week.
Downside. Too many of those stupid "K" applications taking up space in the menu. I don't even know what half of them do! Can we pare things down to "one task, one application", and the user can choose to install more afterwards? Also, there are some little niceties that should be enabled: white Ubuntu standard mouse pointer, NumLock on, disable the bouncing busy-cursor (sooooo annoying), etc. These are not show-stoppers, just things that contribute to the level of polish. Also, the default theme for KDE is gorgeous, but a tad buggy with some screen artifacts. At least, that's what I see using the Nvidia proprietary driver. Maybe another theme would be better.
Clearly, the install bug *is* a showstopper, so here's to a fixed 3.0r1 release!
Anyways, that's my 2 cents. Take it or leave it...
--Akshun J
Bug
mikpap wrote:Great news. I downloaded it and I have just found a bug in the installer (there wasn't in the 013 Beta). the manual disk partition crushes the installation. Any ideas why?
I have the same problem as mikpap,the installer crashes downloaded at the 4th try, took over 6hours , normal 355KB/sec
greetings
I have gnome version at home and I just installed yesterday the kde version on my work notebook and... WOW!!!! It's even better then the gnome version!!!
I had the manual partitioning issue but when I readed the release notes I found the workaround, I was lucky that the wireless adsl worked so I had the possibility to read the release notes. It would be great if there was an option to reuse existings Linux partitions too.
But I found an issue on the NTFS configuration tools, as it is still using gksu instead of kdesu so I had to change it manually.
And the popup above the main menu get partially hidden by the panel and the last rows are not readable.
At last I have to say that I find Konqueror much better then Dolphin as a file manager.
I tryed many distro but I think this is the top!!!
Go on this way!!!
I had the manual partitioning issue but when I readed the release notes I found the workaround, I was lucky that the wireless adsl worked so I had the possibility to read the release notes. It would be great if there was an option to reuse existings Linux partitions too.
But I found an issue on the NTFS configuration tools, as it is still using gksu instead of kdesu so I had to change it manually.
And the popup above the main menu get partially hidden by the panel and the last rows are not readable.
At last I have to say that I find Konqueror much better then Dolphin as a file manager.
I tryed many distro but I think this is the top!!!
Go on this way!!!
Hi All,
From Linux Today - Linux Mint Takes on a KDE Flavor.
You can see it http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.ph ... 6-NW-DB-RL
From Linux Today - Linux Mint Takes on a KDE Flavor.
You can see it http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.ph ... 6-NW-DB-RL
the answer is no you can not add kde from the live KDE DVD.
A live CD/DVD is like an installed system that has been tared up and compressed to fit to fit on a CD/DVD.
ie it is an image of a system.
so the install process is like a big file copy to your system.
there are no .deb files on the CD/DVD that you can install.
KDE Mint comes from the Ubuntu repos and not the Kubuntu repos.
so you could use apt-get or synaptic to install KDE-desktop (I think) to get KDE on your system as well.
you could then choose at login which DE to login to.
Remember though that not all Mint applications will work on KDE.
A live CD/DVD is like an installed system that has been tared up and compressed to fit to fit on a CD/DVD.
ie it is an image of a system.
so the install process is like a big file copy to your system.
there are no .deb files on the CD/DVD that you can install.
KDE Mint comes from the Ubuntu repos and not the Kubuntu repos.
so you could use apt-get or synaptic to install KDE-desktop (I think) to get KDE on your system as well.
you could then choose at login which DE to login to.
Remember though that not all Mint applications will work on KDE.
Now where was i going? Oh yes, crazy!