Ronnie on November 23rd, 2008

* post should be read with the Black Sabbath song ‘Changes’ playing in the background *
For nearly two years now I’ve been using Kubuntu (Ubuntu + KDE) quite happily. It was a happy marriage between us, but yesterday we filed for divorce.
Kubuntu Gutsy, and Hardy, had been fine. I’ve even been using KDE4 since 4.0, [...]

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Ronnie on February 7th, 2008

After posting my ‘KDE4 is dying’ sob story on the Kubuntu mailing list, I was advised to rename my hidden .kde4 directory then try logging in with KDE4. But just after reading the above solution I saw that KDE 4.0.1 would be released soon.
Sure enough, KDE 4.0.1 was released yesterday (Wed, 6th Feb) and I [...]

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Ronnie on February 3rd, 2008

*sob*
I’m have no luck at all this week end.
First was my KDE4 debacle and now an argument with Google Calendar!
I read a nice tutorial which was about getting Google Calendar working in Thunderbird.
‘That’d be handy’, says I.
Downloads the Lightning add-on for Thunderbird, which gives it a built in calendar, then downloaded the Provider add-on which [...]

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Ronnie on January 13th, 2008

Well, i’ve been using KDE4 now for two whole days and i’ve been noticing some ‘quirks’ which i’m not too keen on.

Why is it so difficult to create a new folder? I right click in Dolphin/Konqueror and choose Create New from the menu and… no, there’s no New Folder option. Ok, what about the File [...]

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Ronnie on January 12th, 2008

KDE4 released - Check
KDE4 installed fast as humanly possible - CHECK!
Just got back from work and my KDE4 install is up and running

 
 

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First impressions are that it is really nice. I am, of course, taking in to consideration that this is 4.0 and will have some rough edges. It has a [...]

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