KDE 4: the good, the bad and the broken

[Dotan Cohen]

>> > Better distro support. Last time I tried to install KDE under Ubuntu
>> > it was an abysmal failure. I used the Ubutunu repositories and nothing
>> > worked. Gnome worked fine on that machine and was the default from the
>> > installation. No sound under KDE, menu options gone, the logout log
>> > off functions broken, no way to change the graphics resolution but I
>> > could under Gnome. I forget half the problems but it was the most
>> > botched KDE install I've ever attempted. Since it wasn't my machine I
>> > just set the user up with Gnome instead of going thorugh dependency
>> > hell trying to install from tarballs.
>>
>> That is a Ubuntu issue, not a KDE issue, sorry. But I will tell you
>> that Kubuntu works fine, in fact most of my installs are Kubuntu.
>
> Maybe a Kubuntu desktop has something in its package selection that is not
> installed when installing KDE on a Ubuntu setup.
> Could be a missing dependency that wasn't detected by the packagers because
> they for example just test with Kubuntu and not a plain Ubuntu.
>

That is likely. Make sure that kubuntu-desktop is installed, not just kdebase.


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Dotan Cohen

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