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On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 18:39 +0200, Antonio M wrote:<br><br>
> this bug is not young, and it was already reported in F9, that<br>
> probably means that sound system has not been working in Fedora for at<br>
> least 3 months...do you know any modern OS where sound system is<br>
> bugged and you cant' play music or listen to radio???? or shall we<br>
> think that multimedia will be dropped??? let me know ....if you plan a<br>
> Release day, sound system is a must...</blockquote><div><br>Unfortunately, I have to agree with Antonio...<br>I'm currently still using F8 (because I didn't see a compelling<br>reason to migrate to F9) but I _am_ evaluating and testing F10.<br>
<br>I (personally) have a few pre-requisites that make F10 a go/no-go<br>decision:<br><br>1/ KDE 4.x must work at least as good as good as 3.x. But its not there!<br> (Gnome is a non-runner for me.)<br></div></div><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> a) double clicking the menu icon does not kill the app (even thought</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> the option is enabled.)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> b) the (re-written) calendar tasklet still doesn't support the<br>
multi-timezone</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> display that the old version does. And its popup<br> calendar disappears as </span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">soon as you click anywhere else on the screen<br>
(making the calendar</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> next to worthless, and definately a major pain in<br> the *&&%^%$#^%)<br> c) the newsticker writes all over the taskbar, and doesn't seem to be<br>
controlable.<br><br>2/ I need to wait until there are more KDE themes available (like in 3.5 so<br> I can find a usable one.) I once read that if you see a 'black' based<br> web page/theme, it was probably created by someone under 20 years old.<br>
Well I'm now over 50, and I'd like an easier to see' theme! Black with<br> chrome'y highlights does not make it easy to look at.<br></span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br>3/ Start-up sound breaks up/stutters. If its that bad on startup, I'm<br>
not even going to test any other sound application. :-(<br><br></span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Perhaps most of my complaints are about KDE... I don't know.<br>But right now, at least for me... and probably others (like Antonio)<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">F10 isn't (really) usable for any number of reasons.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">And before you ask... no I haven't filed bugs on these items, because</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">I've gotten jaded with the process; when... 2 years and 3 releases after</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">submitting a bugzilla entry, I keep getting emails: '...try it again on</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">the most recent release... Yes, it still fails...' that I have to ask...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">why bother?</span></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Sorry for the rant.<br><br>Frustrated, but not giving up hope yet...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">(and _my_ sound doesn't work right either...)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Fulko</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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