Comments on: Kubuntu Jaunty Jackalope alpha 3 review

By: frustphil

frustphil — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:25:30 +0000

Nice review!

I agree with about the widget theme and you actually wrote what’s exactly in my mind. How do they manage to make a beautiful Desktop/Plasma along with a horrible Widget-theme? I don’t have to say anything to pen point what’s wrong with it. Even by just comparing Nuatilus(dressed with Dust theme) with Dolphin(dressed with Oxygen theme), you can tell the big difference. Dolphin with Oxygen is downright ugly… Sorry to be rude, but that’s just how I look at it…

By: shmuljk

shmuljk — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:09:05 +0000

Hey, don’t curse at the oxygen theme. I use OpenSuse and really like it. To me it’s the most eye-friendly theme and looks pretty modern. The default gray colorscheme is kinda boring, but that’s a matter of taste, too.
But besides that: nice review! I’ll give 9.04 a trial and see how boot speed and responsiveness have improved (in comparison with OpenSuse 11.1).

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:56:53 +0000

Thanks for taking time to write this. It’s always nice to know how things are getting along. Roll on April

By: justinforasec

justinforasec — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:02:43 +0000

Hey Martian, nice review. I agree about the poor windows design but what are ya gonna do? Hope they release the final soon, i’m pretty excited.

By: tmb_ayebe

tmb_ayebe — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:59:52 +0000

Good to know how things are coming along. I’m excited about KDE4 but dissapointed that it’s taking so long to get to a point where I can use it. GIMP and Firefox are essential to me. Thanks for the review, dunno what the first guy’s problem was – must be a troll. Ext4 sounds cool.

By: AceMan

AceMan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:15:53 +0000

Thanks for the review, if someone didn’t do one, we wouldn’t know how this release was progressing. Sure it’s early, but it gives us an idea of what they are working on. Thanks again, ignore the “haters”.

AceMan

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:17:53 +0000

Martin, thanks for review. Glad to know booting is a bit faster now.

By: Tabris

Tabris — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:07:46 +0000

Adept will not take part of Kubuntu 9.04, replaced by KPackageKit.

By: Kaljakoppa

Kaljakoppa — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:48:02 +0000

FireFox has never been in Kubuntu. Probably because it’s so GTK again (and it definitely is an eyesore compared to Konqueror when run in KDE).

And I think Adept has quite often, varies by the version, been in a turmoil of opinions, for and against. And the new version (Adept 3) promised great things and fixing all gaps, but failed to deliver all of those promises. That’s why we got the regression in the search…

I’ve heard that for Jaunty, Kubuntu will use KPackageKit. So Kubuntu no longer needs to maintain its own package handler. This will be the end of Adept… It’s a good thing (though I admit I’ve never used KPackageKit) since I think it will bring some improvements (many developers and user –> better software)…

By: Gigi

Gigi — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:31:53 +0000

I don’t remember coming with firefox installed. They have always gone with Konqueror. Adept not finding firefox is curious though.