Fedora 9 Sulpher: First Impression

[Ahmed Kamal]

Um, let's add this one: Copy from KWrite, paste into Firefox in a Gmail
compose email window, never pastes ?!

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Ahmed Kamal <
email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Guys, sorry, I meant that email to be at fedora-devel
>
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> From: Ahmed Kamal <email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com>
> Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Fedora 9 Sulpher: First Impression
> To: fedora-infrastructure-list at redhat.com
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>
> Great work guys, F9 basically rocks. The "Fast-X" feature .. is sooo yummy
> :) I can't believe I lived with that ugly flicker the past decade. Also
> kde-4 .. soo cool, although we all agree it needs more polish. However, I am
> facing a perhaps higher than usual number of potential bugs! I will detail
> below, and you decide:
>
> - GDM has no shortcut key for "Login" button, while the "Cancel" button
> right beside it has the C underlined! That hurts my eyes :)
> - GDM does not remember the last session! So, I always need to choose kde4
> - /media/windows-ntfs-drive/ is not automounted when KDE is started. So,
> okular starts and tries to open the pdf book I was reading, but fails! Not
> sure if that's a kde bug or a system one. But when I start KDE file manager,
> and click that directory, it mounts and opens fine!
> - network service not brining bridge devices up or similar (I will detail
> in a separate thread)
> - kernel not powering off my toshiba A105 S361 laptop upon shutdown! (grr
> .. this keeps coming and going on all 2.6 kernels)
> - Synaptics driver not "tapping" enabled! This remains a bug to me even
> though people on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437609 seem
> to have found a work around. Since Fedora changed the default behaviour,
> could we at least get a release notes section on how to activate tapping
> - Firefox3b5 sometimes showing solid color stripes over text, rendering it
> unreadable .. well, it is still in beta
>
> Other than those, F9 still rox :)
> Regards
>
> 2008/5/15 Ramez Hanna <rhanna at informatiq.org>:
>
> been using it for a full working day now
>> i am impressed with the new packagekit so far
>> yet i don't see major changes that are apparent to the desktop user, but
>> what more can they ask for ;)
>> great work
>>
>> 2008/5/15 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>  On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 07:51 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
>>> > Everything is fine except the low quality graphics for GDM. It looks
>>> > like an over-compressed jpeg file. I'd rather to use a black screen as
>>> > background instead, but there is even no way to change the background
>>> > (yet).
>>>
>>> Very happy that you guys are trying out the distribution.  However, you
>>> should discuss these topics on fedora-list, and not the lists intended
>>> for discussion of infrastructure, marketing, and translation.
>>> Thanks! :-)
>>>
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