Fedora 9 Sulpher: First Impression

[Pavel Shevchuk]

If you use KDE you should switch to KDM. It will preload kdelibs
making kde start a tiny bit faster, and also remembers default
session.

P.S. Shortcut to "login" button is "Enter" =)

On 5/17/08, Ahmed Kamal <email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Um, let's add this one: Copy from KWrite, paste into Firefox in a Gmail
> compose email window, never pastes ?!
>
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Ahmed Kamal
> <email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Guys, sorry, I meant that email to be at fedora-devel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Ahmed Kamal <email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com>
> > Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:53 AM
> > Subject: Re: Fedora 9 Sulpher: First Impression
> > To: fedora-infrastructure-list at redhat.com
> >
> >
> > Great work guys, F9 basically rocks. The "Fast-X" feature .. is sooo yummy
> :) I can't believe I lived with that ugly flicker the past decade. Also
> kde-4 .. soo cool, although we all agree it needs more polish. However, I am
> facing a perhaps higher than usual number of potential bugs! I will detail
> below, and you decide:
> >
> > - GDM has no shortcut key for "Login" button, while the "Cancel" button
> right beside it has the C underlined! That hurts my eyes :)
> > - GDM does not remember the last session! So, I always need to choose kde4
> > - /media/windows-ntfs-drive/ is not automounted when KDE is started. So,
> okular starts and tries to open the pdf book I was reading, but fails! Not
> sure if that's a kde bug or a system one. But when I start KDE file manager,
> and click that directory, it mounts and opens fine!
> > - network service not brining bridge devices up or similar (I will detail
> in a separate thread)
> > - kernel not powering off my toshiba A105 S361 laptop upon shutdown! (grr
> .. this keeps coming and going on all 2.6 kernels)
> > - Synaptics driver not "tapping" enabled! This remains a bug to me even
> though people on
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437609 seem to
> have found a work around. Since Fedora changed the default behaviour, could
> we at least get a release notes section on how to activate tapping
> > - Firefox3b5 sometimes showing solid color stripes over text, rendering it
> unreadable .. well, it is still in beta
> >
> > Other than those, F9 still rox :)
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > 2008/5/15 Ramez Hanna <rhanna at informatiq.org>:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > been using it for a full working day now
> > > i am impressed with the new packagekit so far
> > > yet i don't see major changes that are apparent to the desktop user, but
> what more can they ask for ;)
> > > great work
> > >
> > >
> > > 2008/5/15 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 07:51 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
> > > > > Everything is fine except the low quality graphics for GDM. It looks
> > > > > like an over-compressed jpeg file. I'd rather to use a black screen
> as
> > > > > background instead, but there is even no way to change the
> background
> > > > > (yet).
> > > >
> > > > Very happy that you guys are trying out the distribution.  However,
> you
> > > > should discuss these topics on fedora-list, and not the lists intended
> > > > for discussion of infrastructure, marketing, and translation.
> > > > Thanks! :-)
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Paul W. Frields
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