HowTo add standard KDE system into Ubuntu 10.04 school computers

[giovanni_re]

Alvin - thanks for your detailed information.  :)


On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:08:13 +0200, "Alvin" <info at alvin.be> said:
> > 2) What problems might likely occur, & what are the methods to fix them?
> 
> By installing kubuntu-desktop, you will set KDM as the default login
> manager. 
> You can change that if you want,

Where does a sysadmin change the default login to gnome? - They might
want to do that for consistency.


> but in my opinion it's a better choice.
> (KDM 
> supports XDMCP.) KDM does have the occasional problem of not showing up
> [1], 
> forcing you to reboot. This is most probably an upstart/plymouth problem.
> 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/+bug/538524
boot hangs on splash screen, doesn't switch to KDM 
"Scott Kitterman  wrote on 2010-09-18:        #47
Those of you still having problems, you should file a new bug. This one
is fixed and adding to it is a source of confusion.
"

Note:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/plymouth
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/LucidBootExperience
"graphical boot animation and logger - main package
Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process
(even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical
boot animation while the boot process happens in the background."


> There are no show-stopping problems as far as I know. You'll encounter
> some 
> bugs, but nothing life-threatening, like nepomuk segfaulting [2]. You can 
> prevent network-manager problems by disabling suspend/hibernate [3].
> Other likely problems are kontact, akregator, kopete and krunner
> segfaulting, 
> but your students probably don't need those. Also, the NFS kioslave is
> broken 
> [4], but Gnome doesn't even have such a feature [5], so just mount your
> shares 
> in /etc/fstab and hope that mountall succeeds in mounting them. If your
> /home 
> directories reside on a fileserver, be sure to read [6].
> 
> It all depends on your needs. If you tell us what the students will be
> doing 
> with KDE, we might tell you more about what they might encounter. 

These are for a computer programming class.  

One student has asked that GVIM be installed.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/gvim-for-ubuntu-linux-264185/

I thought the KDE system should be installed, to give students
experience with what had been, historically, the leading GNU(Linux) GUI
system.



> Aside from the many boot troubles (reboot as
> workaround, 
> not KDE related), and the Caps Lock button not working in rdesktop [7]
> there 
> are not many complaints.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538524
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590088
> [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524454
> [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385514
> [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24430
> [6] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Deployment_issues
> [7] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251709

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