[kubuntu-users] check list of annoyances

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 07:24:44PM -0700, Albert wrote:

Sorry for the delay in replying, I think we got most of this tacked
for dapper.

> 1) - konqueror crashes when closing the last tab.

Works for me.

> 2) - konqueror erases my writing in the URL field when opening a new tab, so I 
> end up with half-written URLs or a locate: that tries to find whatever was 
> typed after the erasing. Very annoying. (bug #35495)

Yes, although the time is short enough for me that I've never noticed
it before.

> 2) - Adept crashes when listing again, after finishing an apt-get install or 
> an apt-get update. This behavior started after a kernel update.

Should be fixed.

> 3) - After locking the system with control+alt+l, I get 2 login windows: one 
> disappears quickly and catches me at half typing the password, the other one 
> that follows doesn't have any of the chars I typed in it. Very annoying. (Bug 
> #36938)

I can't confirm this.

> 4) - One cannot run OpenGL applications over an ssh -X session, if the server 
> machine is not a powerpc as well. This issue may have to do with Xorg itself. 
> The issue is, to me, a serious limitation, because Blender renderings are 
> computationally very expensive and are most conveniently done in a remote 
> powerful headless machine. Also a point in favor of other distributions that 
> use XFree such as yellowdoglinux which do not have this limitation. Happens 
> on Dapper as well, at least in the flight-5 (bug #27459)

Yes, although it's an X issue so not my field.

> 5) Xorg grows in memory usage (at least as reported in a top command), and so 
> do many other KDE-related applications (gam_server, kded, kwin, kicker, ...), 
> with the end result that one needs to reboot the machine once a week. I am 
> used to never reboot my machine.

Do you still have this?  I've not had that problem.

> 6) Some web pages in konqueror print an infinite number of pages when printing 
> to a PDF file. One such pages was wikipedia's 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezier_curve as of 2006-01-08 at 11:36 Los 
> Angeles time. (bug #28218)

Works for me.

> 7) The updatedb runs without checking whether the laptop is on battery. 
> Considering it consumes a good deal of the battery, updatedb should never run 
> while on battery. (bug #28918)

Wrong bug number?

> 8) Konserve crashes when the target backup directory is a USB pen accessed 
> through the media protocol. Very bad news that a backup tool is not reliable. 
> (bug #35252)

Konserve has been replaced with keep.

> 9) The screen resolutions listed in the System Settings are not in agreement 
> with the ones listed in the xorg.conf, and when adjusted, the resolution 
> cannot be setup to the proper one specified in the xorg.conf unless one 
> manually erases proper configuration files in the ~/.kde/ folder. (bug 
> #34383)

Seems to be fixed.

> 10) There is no easy way to plug in an external monitor. I had to battle with 
> xorg.conf to figure it out myself, with the help of the webpage 
> http://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/83421018-b3ef-11da-a32d-000c6ec775d9.html . Still 
> the system is less than ideal, since one has to have booted with the external 
> monitor plugged in. Then the desktop does not resize back, unless one opens a 
> new session. Logout/login doesn't work, because the session settings are 
> somehow preserved in the login splash screen.

This all depends on your graphics card.

> 11) There is no clear, integrated way of visualizing videos. Some videos work 
> with VLC, some with kaffeine, some with mplayer. It's a time consuming and 
> annoying experience to figure out which application will not crash or hang 
> with a given video.

Videos are complex and legal issues make them more so,
kaffeine/kmplayer in dapper should handle as much as possible.

> 12) The image preview in Konqueror, through gwenview, shows yellow-tinted 
> images when zoomed out, and blue-tinted images when zoomed in. Very annoying 
> and deterring for newcomers.

Fixed.

> 13) Firefox is at version 1.0.7, which barely holds together. I'd rather use 
> konqueror, but Firefox has very interesting plugins (mostly for version 1.5) 
> which I believe are of general interest to Ubuntu users.

Fixed.

> 1) - GCC java (gcj) 4.0.2 and 4.1 don't run properly non-leading edge, 
> AWT-targeted java applications such as the Image analysis program ImageJ, 
> even after removing code related to the tools.jar and JPEG. The application 
> seg faults at the simplest command.

Sun's java is now in the archives.

> 2) - There is no graphics application that can use CMYK as easy and integrated 
> as Adobe Photoshop does. Considering in developmental biology research every 
> piece of data is an image that has to be printed in a journal, CMYK is a 
> requirement. Good enough mac-on-linux works very well, and provides a 
> temporary fix.

Krita getting close.

> 3) - There is no easy way to manage wireless connections. The System Settings 
> don't do what one understands from the Network panel. Plus one can only 
> access 'keymode open' networks, no WPA.

wlassistant is an improvement for this.  knetworkmanager is another.

> Finally, just a remark: Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux system, not a Linux system. What 
> makes Ubuntu a fantastic operating system has way more to do with GNU than 
> with Linux. Why this subtlety is important has been stated over and over by 
> Richard Stallman from the FSF, and has to do with the long-term implications 
> of the freedom and power the user has over the system.

I prefer to think of it has a KGX system.

Jonathan