Comments on: Preview of Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

By: brannie

brannie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:18:21 +0000

wow furburger,that’s an angry comment.
My Kubuntu karmic’s running great,i’m really happy with it and have a multitude of software I use along with my dual-boot Mint7.
perhaps I’m easily pleased in comparison but I ask why don’t you use a distro you’re happy with or better yet,develop one yourself?

By: brannie

brannie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:18:00 +0000

By: furburgr

furburgr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:44:20 +0000

Don’t beat around the Bush… face it… Kubuntu Dev’s are Noobs! They are incapable of coming up with anything new or worthy…. And people keep on blaming it on how the kubuntu team how limited resources etc etc.. b.s! I mean cmon! If a small developer community that work on Linux Mint can create and improve on things and have original ideas..(bear in mind its 1 guy on the gnome version, and 1 guy on the kde version)
Then why can’t the KUBUNTU team do anything right?

All they do is grab ubuntu, chuck the latest kde on there, choose what packages to chuck on it… alot of the time bad choices by putting alpha software on a new release….. and then call it Kubuntu….. Wow… 6 months wasted to make the distro their Own and give it some polish!

By: furburgr

furburgr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:44:00 +0000

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By: bigbrovar

bigbrovar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:18:45 +0000

As a distro I find Kubuntu jaunty to be solid (and karmic too when I tried it briefly) as a member of the ubuntu family I find kubuntu to be often left out of some of the cool juice of ubuntu which enhance the user experience. Cool stuffs like xsplash, ubuntuone, software center, guest session, are all ubuntu specific and are not ported to kubuntu. Also why its cool to ship default and all its also good for a distro to have a sort of uniqueness ubuntu is not by any means a vanilla gnome. Its been given extra polish (By the ubuntu art theme) and also comes with tons of community artwork. No doubt the kde 4.3 art work is top notch still Kubuntu could also do to help polish it even further (back porting the polish upstream too) I tried the latest dev release of open suse and was blown away by the way kde was given extra polish, from walpaper to the sexy custom air theme everything looks really cool I was left wondering why we could not have such on kubuntu.

By: bigbrovar

bigbrovar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:18:00 +0000

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:02:23 +0000

Kubuntu has been seriously broken in past releases (see http://flickr.com/photos/19616885@N00/sets/72157608562200171/ for examples), so I have doubts that Kubuntu becomes actually a polished distro.
If Kubuntu becomes a polished distro, I applaud that. Every distro that gives KDE a good reputation is good.

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:02:00 +0000

By: Tavis J. Hampton

Tavis J. Hampton — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:03:18 +0000

@MadGenius, the whole point of Kubuntu (or even Ubuntu for that matter) is to create a distribution that is not disruptive to the desktop environment. Why change what already works? But when something does need improving, the Kubuntu developers send their code back upstream.

While some other distributions have their own unique control panels and additions, Kubuntu changes often go right back into KDE. A perfect example is the System Settings feature in KDE, and the Amarok codec installer I mentioned also came from Kubuntu and has now been sent upstream into the KDE code. Therefore, asking why Kubuntu does not have non-KDE features is simply not the right question. The right question to ask is, “What has Kubuntu contributed to KDE?” and the answer is: plenty. Isn’t free software supposed to be about contributions to the community?

By: Tavis J. Hampton

Tavis J. Hampton — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:03:00 +0000

By: KenP

KenP — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:46:14 +0000

I can see two things that Kubuntu has integrated into KDE4 that I don’t see in any other distro ..
1. Indicator Display: This integrates email and chat programs and shows their status in one common place. In Kmail, there is an extra option to use the message indicator to display new emails etc. I use pidgin and it is integrated into the same icon too.

2. Ayatana notifications: Just like the default Ubuntu, KDE4 has similar notifications but nicely integrated into native theme (Air etc). You can still choose the KDE4 notifications if you want to.

So far, these are the two unique additions of Kubuntu to KDE4.

By: KenP

KenP — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:46:00 +0000

2. Ayatana notifications: Just like the default Ubuntu, KDE4 has similar notifications but nicely integrated into native theme (Air etc). You can still choose the KDE4 notifications if you want to.

So far, these are the two unique additions of Kubuntu to KDE4.

By: MirzaD

MirzaD — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:27:39 +0000

Not that much but there are some things exclusive to Kubuntu like:
– New Kubuntu installer
– Firefox easy installer
– OpenOfiice.org integration with KDE4

By: MirzaD

MirzaD — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:27:00 +0000

Not that much but there are some things exclusive to Kubuntu like:
– New Kubuntu installer
– Firefox easy installer
– OpenOfiice.org integration with KDE4

By: MadGenius

MadGenius — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:01:48 +0000

What you’ve talked about is more a review of KDE 4 than Kubuntu. What does Kubuntu offer that would make someone (who uses KDE-centric distros like openSUSE, Mandriva etc) to switch?

The last few versions of Kubuntu all have had an almost vanilla KDE – I might as well use Slackware.

By: MadGenius

MadGenius — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:01:00 +0000

What you’ve talked about is more a review of KDE 4 than Kubuntu. What does Kubuntu offer that would make someone (who uses KDE-centric distros like openSUSE, Mandriva etc) to switch?

The last few versions of Kubuntu all have had an almost vanilla KDE – I might as well use Slackware.