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4.2 New KDE user....Thoughts

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brute
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4.2 New KDE user....Thoughts

Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:40 pm
My first impression was "Wow"! Really nice work, and I feel this project has a lot of road ahead of it. So keep up the great work.

First thing I noticed, and I know it is probably a simple fix, but thought I would bring it up, and I am sure someone else has already done that, is the clock format of being a 24 hour hour without the option to set it to a 12 hour, since I live in the States, a 12 hour clock is more appropriate for me.

Also I noticed I had no sound right off, even though the intro music played just fine. Seemed like the volume control did nothing until I opened the control panel and adjusted the PCM control up. I had to do this every time and this is very annoying, at least for me.

The LCD Plasma widget was frustrating also, and I never could get it to work at all, maybe a better set of instructions or better detail may be in line for this issue.

All in all, my experience was easy to get around with a few glitches like the desktop plasma widget, after adding icons to it, it crashed and after re-boot, the widget was there but my icons were gone, then later, after a quick log out and back in, they re- appeared.

This is a beautiful desktop, and I feel with a little work, will be here for the long run!
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RE: 4.2 New KDE user....Thoughts

Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:55 pm
For the 24-hour clock thing, you can change that in the Regional and Language section in the System Settings application, in the time tab. :)


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RE: 4.2 New KDE user....Thoughts

Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:34 pm
JontheEchinda wrote:For the 24-hour clock thing, you can change that in the Regional and Language section in the System Settings application, in the time tab. :)

Thanks for the info. but it seems that there could be an easier way or a simple tab that says 12/24 hour format. I believe the whole"Time server issue is confusing for the average user." :-)
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RE: 4.2 New KDE user....Thoughts

Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:34 pm
Yes, it would be nice if one could easily switch between 12 and 24 formats. Just setting a locale isn't sufficient, because several locales will use both formats.


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