Just saw the release announcement... updating my Kubuntu 8.10 installation Beta 1 was pretty good, lets see what Beta 2 has in store

I updated at 05:00am today, I then unfortunately had to come to work

Can't wait until I get home (around 20:00ish) to have a proper look

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It feels so good. And I already noticed some bugs which are fixed since beta 1. One of the greatest things IMO is the default font rendering in my task list. It looks so perfect that I have to look at it ever and ever again.

msoeken: +1

And don't forget to checkout the new AIR wallpaper with snow effect, really nice, as the news already stated.

yay, upgraded went painless on kubuntu. I have some bugs to report tho, they were present in beta 1 too.

1, Tabbing out of full screen games ran in wine doesn't appear in the panel and you cant tab into them again.
2, The screen edges settings in desktop effects doesn't seem to save properly: Activating them is fine but when I set "no effect" and apply it just pops back to what it was, rather annoying if you ask me.

oh and btw, the alt-tab effects has never worked. Running nvidias 180.16 beta drivers on a 9600gt

Farmer wrote:2, The screen edges settings in desktop effects doesn't seem to save properly: Activating them is fine but when I set "no effect" and apply it just pops back to what it was, rather annoying if you ask me.

oh and btw, the alt-tab effects has never worked. Running nvidias 180.16 beta drivers on a 9600gt

I think those might be Kubuntu-specific, since they work fine in my distro of choice (opensuse 11.1). I'm not saying suse is perfect (it's not), but I don't think those problems are generic KDE bugs. At least if I understand the alt-tab effects to be say cover-flow if you hit alt-tab? Works for me is all I can say, using suse 11.1, KDE 4.2 beta2 and Nvidia 180.16 (another nvidia card than you use though, mine is a 7300 GS). I would check launchpad first before filing a bug at kde.org.

Kryten2X4B wrote:

Farmer wrote:2, The screen edges settings in desktop effects doesn't seem to save properly: Activating them is fine but when I set "no effect" and apply it just pops back to what it was, rather annoying if you ask me.

oh and btw, the alt-tab effects has never worked. Running nvidias 180.16 beta drivers on a 9600gt

I think those might be Kubuntu-specific, since they work fine in my distro of choice (opensuse 11.1). I'm not saying suse is perfect (it's not), but I don't think those problems are generic KDE bugs. At least if I understand the alt-tab effects to be say cover-flow if you hit alt-tab? Works for me is all I can say, using suse 11.1, KDE 4.2 beta2 and Nvidia 180.16 (another nvidia card than you use though, mine is a 7300 GS). I would check launchpad first before filing a bug at kde.org.

hmm, maby... I'm gonna have to look around..
Could it even something that has gone wrong in my installation? I remember getting some errors when I first updated to kde 4.2 beta1. The most annoying thing tho is that window border setting bug(has no workaround), I never use alt-tab, and in system monitor you can use "show application window" to get back in the game.

also, It's 64bit kubuntu, I always forget to mention this, cause the 32 -> 64bit transition has so far been more or less seamless

I'm impressed with the new folderview. It finally provides what a lot of us have been begging for since 4.0.0. Not only does it give us a classic desktop, but one can put plasmoids on the folderview desktop, including other folderviews! In fact, I'm starting to wonder why we have a choice between "folderview" and "desktop", when the folderview does everything a desktop does. Just add an option "empty" or "no folder", and it would behave identically. I expect many distros to make this their default.

What would really be cool would be collapsing folderviews. They could collapse into icons, then double click to open back up. Or is there already a way to do this?

I need to go pull some pins out of this Aaron voodoo doll I made...

Brandybuck wrote:

What would really be cool would be collapsing folderviews. They could collapse into icons, then double click to open back up. Or is there already a way to do this?

I need to go pull some pins out of this Aaron voodoo doll I made...

there's a quickaccess plasmoid that does something akin to that but it's not been upped to run in 4.2

I have updated quickaccess for KDE 4.2 (due to a handy patch found on kde-look) and uploaded a kde 4.2 version to the kubuntu-experimental ppa where the rest of the KDE 4.2 packages for Kubuntu are located.

JontheEchinda wrote:I have updated quickaccess for KDE 4.2 (due to a handy patch found on kde-look) and uploaded a kde 4.2 version to the kubuntu-experimental ppa where the rest of the KDE 4.2 packages for Kubuntu are located.

Where can Kubuntu users get the new wall paper?

I found it somewheres on the internet a week or two ago. I can't seem to find it now, though, and I can't see any way to attach things here.... :'(

Trying it out on kubuntu but I'm having a packaging problem (#kubuntu wasn't very responsive) kmouth and kde-icons-mono both contain /usr/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/kmouth.svgz. When I try to force overwrite with dpkg, it tells me that the 4.1.85 package of kmouth contains the 4.1.3 version, which is incompatible with kde-icons-mono (4.1.85).

apt output

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E: /var/cache/apt/archives/kmouth_4%3a4.1.85-0ubuntu1~intrepid1~ppa1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/kmouth.svgz', which is also in package kde-icons-mono

dpkg output

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dpkg: regarding kmouth_4%3a4.1.85-0ubuntu1~intrepid1~ppa1_i386.deb containing kmouth:
 kde-icons-mono conflicts with kmouth (<< 4:4.1.80~)
  kmouth (version 4:4.1.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid1) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing kmouth_4%3a4.1.85-0ubuntu1~intrepid1~ppa1_i386.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing kmouth
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kmouth_4%3a4.1.85-0ubuntu1~intrepid1~ppa1_i386.deb


I read somewhere that google gadgets are now supported natively in plasma, but can't seem to get them working. Anyone else had better luck with this?

Farmer wrote:2, The screen edges settings in desktop effects doesn't seem to save properly: Activating them is fine but when I set "no effect" and apply it just pops back to what it was, rather annoying if you ask me.

My fault, it was fixed shortly after beta 2 was tagged. I needed to revert a large amount of code and accidentally also reverted the fixes for screen edges.