Comments on: Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1: KDE in openSUSE 11.1

By: Dirk

Dirk — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:29:37 +0000

Why bother with torrents? As mentioned, most ISPs traffic shape torrents.

Download the ISO, you’ll have it in less than an hour with 1Mb link. Most reputable ISPs have a download mirror that doesn’t eat into your quota.

By: khaleid vharles

khaleid vharles — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:55:51 +0000

when i enable esktop effects my mouse pointer dissappears and ther are color patches remaing on screen after changing to different windows…When I disable desktop effects everything is good…..help

By: Ex-Expat

Ex-Expat — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:03:47 +0000

Oops – (continued) So do some Googling and find out if your ISP does traffic shaping (they’re not likely to admit it to you), this could be the problem… and a switch to another ISP could be the solution.

By: Ex-Expat

Ex-Expat — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:00:37 +0000

Another factor to consider is that many ISPs have taken to ‘traffic shaping,’ which essentially amounts to throttling speeds on BitTorrent and similar clients in order to limit bandwidth usage by ‘power users.’ If your ISP is doing this you can have all the high-speed seeds in the world and it won’t do you a whit of good. That is what the fight for ‘net neutrality’ is all about… many people (including me) feel they are paying for a certain bandwidth and therefore should not be restricted in their use of certain protocols. IMHO it’s just a way for ISPs to avoid buying enough equipment to support the bandwidths they’re advertising.

By: Xtigyro

Xtigyro — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:15:53 +0000

In conclusion, according to my opinion openSuSE 11.1 is a nice distribution.
I don’t think something important has been changed since 11.0 except zypper improvements and several YaST2 changes… it’s the same distro with some upgrades.
So far, so good.
However, there are really many bugs, which I personally encounterd. My computer is a HP NX9420 RH450EA Laptop. And a lot of things didn’t go smoothly as it is expected. I have filed up the most annoying bugs. I hope it will be fixed soon.
Using Debian Lenny. Waiting for the fixes.

Happy New Year! I wish all of you (the openSuSE developers and openSuSE Community) to be in rude health!

Cheers,
Miro

By: anon

anon — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:16:15 +0000

Please ask for help in the forums so that users with same problems wil benefit. See you in forums :)

By: freedguy

freedguy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:12:13 +0000

Launch dolphin with “kdesu dbus-launch dolphin”. Everything wil be fine :)

By: Pete the heat

Pete the heat — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:57:56 +0000

It’s much better than the KDE that is in Suse 11.0.

However, it still doesn’t have the features I use all the
time in KDE 3.5.

I couldn’t figure out how to get a panel to span across
two monitors.

I couldn’t figure out how to change the background wallpaper.

The user interface to panels (and desktop settings) seems to
be gratuitously different but incomplete.

I’ll be back to try again in 11.2(?)

By: vasu

vasu — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:38:54 +0000

I am tired of hearing this – “openSUSE is the best KDE distro”.

I have used both mandiva 2009 ( my current work desktop) and 11.1. Mandriva is WAY better with KDE 4.1.3. Not only the KDE apps are all ported to KDE4 ( except k3b and kdevelop, an unstable version of which exists in their repo), the default graphics of powerpack are better and mandriva’s net_applet is better than networkmanager anyday. Networkmanager is awful. It shouldn’t exist.

By: vasu

vasu — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:32:33 +0000

While the suse build service caters to the official KDE release well, other KDE applications are not being ported. This is also true for the factory builds.

Examples of KDE applications that are still KDE3 based, even thought stable KDE4 versions exist include kdesvn, kdiff3, kvpnc and many others which I use daily.