<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="Ih2E3d">On 4/5/08, Rahul Sundaram <<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Fulko Hew wrote:<br>
> > Here's my (poor) experience with<br>
> > Rawhide-20080404-Snapshot-i686-Live-KDE.torrent.<br>
> > installation on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (aka 1505) laptop, with Intel video.<br>
> ><br>
> > After installation to disk and rebooting, all I get is the 'blue screen'<br>
> > with X cursor.<br>
> > Either booting in text mode or by viewing the boot progress, I see the<br>
> > following:<br>
> ><br>
> > S99firstboot line 44: FILENAME: command not found<br>
> > S99firstboot line 44: [: missing `]'<br>
> > S99firstboot line 44: FILENAME: command not found<br>
> ><br>
> > and then it just hangs... no GUI login, no text login.<br>
><br>
> Either boot into run level 3 or press I for interactive startup and skip<br>
> first boot. You can then do a update which fixes this problem. First<br>
> boot will start the next time you reboot after that.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Booting into run level 3 wasn't enough for me, but the interactive<br>startup was. I then fixed the problem, and ran firstart manually.<br>
That now lets me get on with testing Rawhide...<br>
<br>
Now where do I start with my comments and opinions?<br><br>
1/ Click on _anything_, or try to do _anything_ and<br> the SELinux AVC denial popup appears. Arghh, I want to<br> throw this thing against the wall!<br>2/ I tried changing the size of the task bar and the<br> widgets are not drawn properly inside it.<br>
3/ I can't find anything 'useful' on the menu. Note that my<br> frustration is starting to set in big time!<br>
4/ I hate this new menu mechanism. Having to constantly<br> click to expand a menu... click to get back a level,<br> clock to pick the right group out of the bottom,<br> before you start your clicking exercise.<br>
Click, click, click, click click! All this clicking<br> is going to give me RSI, and I'm going to sue somebody! :-(<br>
5/ I can't find where I can choose the video driver for X.<br> Its picked VESA by default instead of the Intel driver<br> more apropos for this hardware, and so I'd like to change it,<br> but I can't find it on the menu. (Though I can run<br>
system-config-display manually) When I did, I'm pretty<br> sure that it didn't work, but I don't know the details...<br> I'll have to do it again and record the symptoms.<br>
6/ I tried the KDE news ticker. It now popup up as a<br> window rather than part of the taskbar.<br> Keeping things on the task bar, keeps them in a known<br> location and always visible. Forcing them to be another<br>
window makes them 'yet another window that you need to<br> personally manage. Thats make it time consuming... that<br> make any work on the desktop time consuming when I create,<br> resize, move windows, etc.<br>
7/ The calendar that you get when you click on the clock goes<br> away as soon as you click on another spot on the desktop or<br> a window. What happens if I want to keep it visible and<br> actually refer to it while I do other work in other windows...<br>
I can't... Argh.<br>
8/ If this is the new KDE... count me out!!! (It is a lot<br> more unfriendly and alot more timeconsuming.)<br>
</div><br>