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Anyone know what KDE menu applet they use for Sabayon Linux? It's sort of like the one from SLED 10 but nicer-looking. I personally think more KDE distros should come with it. Here's the link to the tour, unfortunately it won't let me link to the exact picture, but it's the 6th one:
http://shots.linuxquestions.org/?linux_distribution_sm=SabayonLinux...
Isn't that nice?
Edited 2007-02-17 03:37
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I think it's called Kickoff. The OpenSuse 10.2 KDE install has the same menu (which is how I found it). And I must say, after using it for a while, I like it quite a bit. It's like they took the SLED 10 gnome menu (which itself was a nice change) and just got it right. The best thing about it for me is that there are no more endless sub-menus covering the screen. Add in some nice mouse overs for context changes and things start making sense very quickly.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who digs that.
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Yeah, it's called the KickOff menu, and it's been developed by Novell after usability testing. That's why it was implemented in SuSe first, but seems like Sabayon picked it up as well.
I'm running it on my OpenSuSe 10.2 desktop, and for me it beats the Windows XP and Vista start menus hands down!
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..I just hope the WiFi firmware and misc drivers are available from the install cd this time around. I have a DWL-650 Rev-P and I've never been able to get it to communicate with Linux... Eventually I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go looking for a WiFi card that has Linux support out of the box, but with random chipset changes that's proven to be more difficult that I thought it would be.
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I believe the difference between ubuntu and kubuntu is just one package (kubuntu-desktop) so all the other (core) technologies will be shared. I think that it's also the most sensible strategy. It wouldn't make sense if both development teams had to implement the same feature, Kubuntu would (in this way) alway lay behind on Ubuntu, because Ubuntu has much more developers. I therfore think (but I'm not sure) that the core-technologies are shared and the main difference is just the look 'n feel and eyecandy they put over these technologies.
Conclusion: I think both Kubuntu and Ubuntun have this feature, only Kubuntu didn't mention it in their announcement. It would be nice if someone could confirm this.
Edited 2007-02-16 23:38
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ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop are meta-packages. They don't have any associated package per se, but they depend on the dozens of packages that comprise their respective desktops. This makes it easy to switch from ubuntu to kubuntu and vice versa without reinstalling (or even rebooting!).
Unfortunately I don't have an answer for your question, because the last time I used Ubuntu the only "hand-holding" codec installation methods were automatix and easyubuntu. I thought it was really easy to install the codecs without any special wizard, but a wizard helps if you don't know what you're looking for.
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I thought it was really easy to install the codecs without any special wizard, but a wizard helps if you don't know what you're looking for.
Oh, it's not for me, I know how to install codecs. :-)
I was just wondering if this new newbie-friendly feature was Ubuntu only, because I didn't see it announced in the Kubuntu announcement.
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Got this working with Beryl, no more trouble than with edgy etf, did keep crashing with update manager.
Looks quite nice, but without beryl it was a little of the old Linux "So? it looks like Windows 98 painted brown", with Beryl it's more flash, just not as flashly well designed as MacOSX. dunno about Vista.
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Actually, it is called "upstart" and it made its first appearance in Ubuntu Edgy (6.10). For more information:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit
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I could not get the 64 bit CD to boot, but the 32 bit came up fine. Confirmed both downloads against the MD5.
I am not fond of Network Manager and wish there was an obvious and easy way to disable it without uninstalling. (I figured it out, but think it could have been easier.)
Other than that it seems par for the course, nothing terribly new since Edgy. I do not like the gnome control center either , but I suppose it is a matter of opinion.
Codec installs are simpler, though there is no longer the libdvdcss script for DVD playback, actually had to hunt down the package.
Overall it seems fine and the new kernel introduces support for my HD-5500 so that is good. Perhaps as I work with it more additional new features will crop up.
