Problems with Kubuntu 11.04 so far.

[Thomas Olsen]

On Wednesday 08 June 2011 10:04:22 Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011 00:30:17 Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 June 2011 00:08:53 Mark Fraser wrote:
> > > I've been running 11.04 since Saturday and have already come across
> > > some serious problems:
> > > 1) Konqueror no longer integrates with KFind in that Ctrl-F doesn't do
> > > anything. Dolphin will only search in folders that are indexed with
> > > Nepomuk.
> > 
> > When you press Ctrl-F there's a non-intrusive search form at the bottom
> > of the page.
> 
> Not here there isn't. At the moment I've added it to the context menu for
> directories.

Ok. I was jumping to the conclusion that you used Konqueror for web browsing 
only. Even though I am a long time KDE user I have gotten used to (and happy 
with) using Dolphin when file browsing.

> > > 2) Ark no longer opens .deb files. Complains that it doesn't know the
> > > compression type.
> > 
> > If you click on a .deb file it would open with GDebi install. Or you
> > could right-click on it and select "Open with".
> > #notabug #usetherighttool ;-)
> 
> If I want to decompress a .deb to get at a file inside I used to be able to
> right-click select "Extract archive here, autodetect subfolder" and the
> folder would be extracted to the current directory.

I never used it for that. I'd second Clay in that a bug/feature report would 
be appropriate.

> > > 3) Audio CDs are recognised as CD-ROMs which means there is no choice
> > > to rip the audio.
> > 
> > That's a bug (or missing feature). I think it's possible to set it up in
> > System Settings/Hardware/Device Actions but I spend more than an hour
> > yesterday trying to figure out how to make it offer to open Partition
> > Manager when I attached a removeable disk, all to no avail.
> > I just noticed that when you hover the CD-ROM entry in the Device
> > Notifier popup it says "Play Audio CD with Amarok" so it sees it as an
> > audio CD but there's only one option :-/
> > Well just ignore the Device Notifier popup, open Dolphin and write
> > audiocd:/ as the file path. You'll have to RMB-click just to the right of
> > the path name first if it is set to showing "bread crumbs".
> > Otherwise file a bug report at launchpad.
> 
> As Clay said there is already a bug report on Launchpad which I have
> subscribed to.

I subscribed to it too after seeing Clays reply :-)

> > > 4) Firefox keeps forgetting installed add-ons.
> > 
> > File a bug report at launchpad.
> 
> Will do a search on Launchpad later to see if one has already been filed,
> but looking at support.mozilla.com it looks like a few others are having
> the same problem.
> 
> > > 5) Something odd happening with configuring Phonon in System Settings.
> > > If you try to configure Phonon, the Apply button is highlighted before
> > > you do anything. If I then go to Speaker Setup, the sound card is my
> > > webcam. If I go back to the main page and then back to Speaker Setup
> > > there is now no sound card available.
> > 
> > Yeah, that KCM is rather flaky and has been for a while.
> > File a bug report at bugs.kde.org. There's probably already one there ;-)
> 
> Bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275190 reported.

Thanks

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Thomas Olsen

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