[Fwd: LiveCD with KDE-4.0.0]

[Andrew Parker]

On Jan 13, 2008 4:44 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> At least you got Fedora running.
> In my case, the cursor hung from the beginning,
> after installing on the hard disk of a ThinkPad T43.
> Any suggestions of a way round this?
>
> What is surprising is that before installing on the hard disk,
> the Live CD (on a USB stick) ran fine.

At what point is "from the beginning"?

>
> > On the new KMenu in the "Leave" page, clicking on logout brings up a
> > window asking if I want to log out/shutdown or reboot (but I have
> > already made my choice when I clicked on logout) so I'm forced to find
> > the same option again.  Presumably this is instead of a confirmation
> > window?  Its a similar problem for shutdown and reboot, except that
> > for shutdown the language on the second window is different (it says
> > "turn off computer").
>
> Isn't this a general annoyance?
> The number of times you are asked what you want to do,
> and then asked if you really want to do it,
> seems to me to be steadily increasing.
> I want to scream "Are you deaf? I just told you.
> Would I have clicked on logout if I didn't want to logout?"

I frequently click the wrong item (in reality, I'm just too
impatient), so I don't mind the confirmation screen.  This isn't a
confirmation screen, this is the same options, but with slightly
different wording.