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- virtualsnyper, on 01/16/2008, -1/+18Way to support the community ... jerk
- arbulus, on 01/16/2008, -1/+17Tip #1: you're a goddamned liar and troll.
- angryredhead, on 01/16/2008, -0/+14Hey Elitey McPrickerson, good thing your not heading the free software movement. Why don't you go back to your laboratory and create a patchset for your jack ass personality.
Ubuntu, amongst other distros, is awesome for noobs and engineers alike and is open for anyones use if the so choose. End of story. - battlefield1985, on 01/16/2008, -1/+13I'm never going back to windows...
- thethorn, on 01/16/2008, -3/+12 1. Use a simple application launcher on the panel
Traditional KDE menu
You can switch out the new main menu for a more traditional menu. Remove the old menu from the panel: right-click on it and select Remove. Right-click on the desktop and select Add Widgets. In the Add Widgets dialog, drag and drop the Application Launcher Menu from the list to an empty space in the panel. The new menu will position itself in the left corner automatically.
2. Install more widgets
More widgets are available in the package extragear-plasma.
sudo apt-get install extragear-plasma
3. Install more applications
Searching for kde4 in Synaptic will show a huge list KDE4 applications that can be easily installed.
4. Install KOffice KDE4
KOffice is KDE’s equivalent to OpenOffice.
sudo apt-get install koffice-kde4
5. Enabling KWin effects
KWin’s new 3D effects work great on my computer, but they were not enabled by default. To turn them on, open System Settings and click Desktop. Simply check the Enable desktop effects box and click Apply.
6. KWin shortcuts
Here are some of the default keyboard shortcuts for KWin desktop effects:
Super = - zooms in
Super - - zooms out
Ctrl F10 - expose effect for all desktops
Ctrl F8 - view the desktop grid
Also, moving the cursor the the top-left corner of the screen activates expose.
7. Make windows fall apart when closed
Fall Apart effect
This effect is useless and distracting, but let’s turn it on anyways. Open System Settings->Desktop->Desktop Effects->All Effects and check the box beside Fall Apart. All windows (even menus) will fly apart in pieces when they are closed.
8. Lock Desktop Widgets
It’s annoying how if you don’t carefully move the mouse off of a desktop widget, the translucent frame and buttons will stay visible. I work around this by locking the widgets when I am not moving them around. Right-click on the desktop and click Lock Widgets, or Unlock Widgets to unlock.
9. SSH with Konqueror
This isn’t really a KDE 4.0 tip, but it may be useful to other GNOME users who are trying it out for the first time. Like GNOME’s file brower, Konqueror can browse files over SSH. Typing the SSH path into the address bar works, but instead of using ssh:// Konqueror uses fish://. For example:
fish://tom@192.168.1.40
10. Start applications that need root provilages
Launching programs from the menu that need root privilages will cause KDE to ask for your password. On Ubuntu, KDE will refuse your password. This can be worked around by lauching the application from the terminal with sudo. - dualscreenman, on 01/16/2008, -2/+11So an incompatibility caused in part by how Ubuntu works must be a calculated move by *the KDE Team* to ***** things up in a Vista-like manner? Lolz.
- arbulus, on 01/16/2008, -1/+10He and everyone else have every right to just be users, just as much as they have a right to contribute. It is up to the user to decide. If you're too much of an ass to realize that, then maybe you shouldn't be in the business of software.
- u235sentinel, on 01/16/2008, -0/+8Bill Gates? Is that really you???
OMG... Dude!!! Bill Gates Posting on Digg!!! - unversed, on 01/16/2008, -1/+8Serious: Are you for cereal?
- martalli, on 01/16/2008, -1/+8They just rolled out the packages too quickly without getting kdesudo properly integrated. However, there is a reason these are not in the main repository, but in a extra repository - THEY ARE FOR FIDDLING AROUND WITH ONLY. Don't 'upgrade' your entire office to KDE 4.0 tonight unless you want to shoot for EPIC FAIL in front of your boss and co-workers.
I although I am already messing up my home computer withthe 4.0 packages, I might even skip kubuntu 8.04 and just wait for kubuntu 8.10 before introducing the office to kde 4.0. - yacks, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7Ugh i tried kde4.. so far it looks nice.. I'm going to wait until they finish it though.. Can't freakin' easily adjust the Panel.. well now I dont even see the panel.. so yeah.. :-/
- DyDx, on 01/16/2008, -1/+8KDE is based on Trolltech's QT which does run under Windows. It would still have to be ported, but I thought previous versions of KDE had working Windows versions (probably not stable), and I am betting that KDE 4 has a Windows version in development. In fact, here it is: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows
- google01103, on 01/16/2008, -0/+6scientifically speaking your ill mannered, uncouth and not much of a person - other than that .............
- skyshock1, on 01/16/2008, -0/+6Why do you have to type Fish in the browser instead of SSH to SSH to other machines? That seems rather silly.
- BlkGuyAtThePrty, on 01/16/2008, -1/+7not long it seems...
- ShootTheCore, on 01/16/2008, -1/+7I meant it sarcastically, I aint a GNOME or KDE fanboy
Honestly : P - inactive, on 01/16/2008, -2/+8care to make any other uninformed comments ?
- fauxXenophanes, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5My COLLEAGUES and I ...
On behalf of ASS all...
Quite believable, really. - insertAliasHere, on 01/16/2008, -2/+7Thats the kind of attitude that sets the whole Linux community behind. "Help you? Screw you, go play in the sandbox, kid." This ***** needs to stop.
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -3/+8epic lulz
- arbulus, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6Exactly.
If you like GNOME, that's great. If you like KDE, that's great. If you like no GUI and run a CLI only box, that's great too. But people need to stop these pointless flamewars. I just don't understand why people feel the need to impose their preferences on others. Open source software is all about choice: use what you like, and if you don't like it, choose something else. People shouldn't be ridiculed because they made a choice of all the choices out there. What suits the individual and works best for them and what they like is what they should use - not what someone else tells them they should use. - UKsHaDoW, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5Hey I'm i'm computer scientist aswell(No really), and I say screw you.
- eean, on 01/16/2008, -2/+6Installing koffice-kde4 might be mis-guided, KOffice 2.0 is still in an alpha state.
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5lol how is gnome any easier to use than kde. kde also natively supports most of the apps that nooblets want. granted i havent used gnome in some two years so maybe im way off
- mufffin, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4Really helpful and well-written article, will help KDE newbies like me.
- wukillabee, on 01/16/2008, -4/+8how do you install this program on windows
- Nerevar, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3Yeah Plasma is still in a pretty lousy state at the moment, and the fact that you can't customize the panel at all is really irritating.
- manitoba98xp, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3It's because it was originally built that way: I think it's short for Filesystem In SHell. :)
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4If you can't sit down in front of a computer with KDE and figure out how to use it on your own within ten minutes you should stick with pen and paper. Better make it a pen that's not very sharp.
- vafada, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3installing KDE 4.0.0 in Kubuntu broke my system. I was able to install it and play with it but after rebooting i was getting kernel panic.
Somehow, my system can't mount /
I had to repair my system by running the kubuntu installer and doing apt-get remove kde4-core to fix my system. - Malachai, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3THIS IS VERY INSECURE.
It pretty much defeats 'sudo' and defeats the purpose behind administrative tasks. - fyanardi, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2This is called "Anticipating"...
- eean, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I disagree. The desktop is missing some features, but what is there works fine. That isn't really the case with KOffice.
- KidDeath, on 01/16/2008, -2/+4#10
sudo nano /etc/sudoers
change
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
to
%admin ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
reboot, and you will no longer be asked for a password, also works on ubuntu.... if this doesn't work make sure your user is apart of the 'admin' group. - Gavagai80, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3So is KDE 4, practically speaking, so if you can stand the latter you can stand the former.
- keyo, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2Yea, I wonder who is trying to brew it...
- precision256, on 01/16/2008, -3/+5Server seems to be slow ...
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:pA5-zuRj2FcJ: ... - inactive, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3actually it was: step 0) Uninstall inferior gnome desktop
- ha1f, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Considering it's beta software at best, I'd say I'm right. Let me know how all that crashing has been going for you.
- skyshock1, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2Wow, #10 is a pretty nasty bug.
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1eerrr, trolltech is a cross-platform widget set / api so no it doesnt have to be ported. KDE will have to be ported.
- epemac, on 01/17/2008, -1/+2I wholeheartedly agree with you, sir. XFCE FTW!
- HerbertScrunge, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2The Emergency FAQ has some useful info, too:
http://software-libre.rudd-o.com/KDE_4.0.0_emergen ... - lengau, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1The kdesudo incompatibility is in Ubuntu, not in KDE (as has been stated above). There is an easy way to fix it ( http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/01/17/start-app ... ). These packages are in a PPA (personal package archive), not in the main Ubuntu release. they are provided for the convenience of those who want to use KDE 4, but should not be used by the average person who does not expect some things to break.
- Narishma, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1ssh:// also works, as does sftp:// if you have it acivated on your ssh server.
- KidDeath, on 01/19/2008, -0/+1this is not insecure.
why do zealots hate this. This turns Linux into a desktop friendly pc, remember windows < xp, no passwords. Vista, passwords left and right, I know the people I've done this to and the PC's i've sold with this setup vs the normal password way, people like not having to enter their password to do everything.
as far as insecurities. only one user is in the admin group. if you run tainted software, then it's your fault, same as in windows.
You can have all the protection you need, but you'll never be protected from yourself.
If you do get hacked, then most likely it wasn't because of this and your system is unsecure anyways. So the hacker would beable to gain root through other means.
You know apache2 runs as root, and isn't jailed? now THAT is insecure. - ptFoe, on 01/17/2008, -1/+2Thanks just what I was looking for when I complained legitimately in the first post.
The Klan members have been digging me down. - diggrim, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1upgrade the OS
- Killerah, on 01/17/2008, -1/+2This is the third comment like this I've seen, but somehow I haven't yet seen the great debate in these comments you guys are talking about.
- Mark2600, on 01/17/2008, -1/+1Another KDE vs GNOME argument is brewing. They're both great Environments, just geared towards different people.
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