msdobrescu wrote:

airdrik wrote:It doesn't replace the Windows 7 shell, it only sits on top of it (The Windows 7 taskbar should still be on top of the plasma desktop, alt-tab, etc should still be from Windows 7)
What exactly do you mean by "run it in parallel" and "solve this"?

I mean to make the plasma ... "desktop" ... stay over the Windows desktop.
I am not talking about the taskbar at all.

At ALT-TAB I see in my Windows 7 (64-bit with sp1 and all the updates to day, actually two systems, one having Enterprise, other Ultimate) a plasma window contour (hidden?) at the middle of the screen, my screen has 1280x1024 and plasma seems to be 1024x768.
It does not come in front, in the ALT-TAB menu is is drawn as known in linux, having oxygen theme look.
I guess it is in back, below the Windows standard desktop, and I can't interact with it and I need to know how to make it stay in front of that.

Hmm... I never ran into that (I was running Win XP until recently when I got to switch to (K)Ubuntu, I never did touch Vista or 7).
You might also ask about your situation on the KDE on Windows mailing list - it's pretty active and the people there are generally willing to help: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows

airdrik wrote:

msdobrescu wrote:

airdrik wrote:It doesn't replace the Windows 7 shell, it only sits on top of it (The Windows 7 taskbar should still be on top of the plasma desktop, alt-tab, etc should still be from Windows 7)
What exactly do you mean by "run it in parallel" and "solve this"?

I mean to make the plasma ... "desktop" ... stay over the Windows desktop.
I am not talking about the taskbar at all.

At ALT-TAB I see in my Windows 7 (64-bit with sp1 and all the updates to day, actually two systems, one having Enterprise, other Ultimate) a plasma window contour (hidden?) at the middle of the screen, my screen has 1280x1024 and plasma seems to be 1024x768.
It does not come in front, in the ALT-TAB menu is is drawn as known in linux, having oxygen theme look.
I guess it is in back, below the Windows standard desktop, and I can't interact with it and I need to know how to make it stay in front of that.

Hmm... I never ran into that (I was running Win XP until recently when I got to switch to (K)Ubuntu, I never did touch Vista or 7).
You might also ask about your situation on the KDE on Windows mailing list - it's pretty active and the people there are generally willing to help: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows

Good choice. Last time Kubuntu crashed in an hour just customizing it's appearance. So I use Mandriva or Gentoo.

Is there a schedule for Windows KDE 4.6.x?

msdobrescu wrote:...
Good choice. Last time Kubuntu crashed in an hour just customizing it's appearance. So I use Mandriva or Gentoo.

Is there a schedule for Windows KDE 4.6.x?

Kubuntu would not have been my first pick if I had a choice of distribution. Unfortunately they are only just now starting to move from windows only to a mixed windows + linux (for developers only) environment, and IT has dictated Ubuntu 10.04.

I don't know of a schedule for Windows KDE 4.6. Last I saw in the mailing list, they were mainly discussing bug fixes, changes to the build system (and some proposed GSoC work), but nothing about 4.6

msdobrescu wrote:Good choice. Last time Kubuntu crashed in an hour just customizing it's appearance. So I use Mandriva or Gentoo.

Please no unsubstantiated sarky distro bashing. You could have said something along the lines of: version xx.xx crashed on me...

toad wrote:

msdobrescu wrote:Good choice. Last time Kubuntu crashed in an hour just customizing it's appearance. So I use Mandriva or Gentoo.

Please no unsubstantiated sarky distro bashing. You could have said something along the lines of: version xx.xx crashed on me...

OK, it was version 10.04 stable, and after the third restart entered into recovery mode. Never get out... all partition scrambled... Now, I have Mandriva 2010.2 there, so the disk is not the reason... Never found out why it crashed.
Anyway, loved the forums, plenty of tutorials and support from (k)ubuntu users. I wil definitely try it again.
IMHO, Linux is just better because it is made by users for users.
I use Mandriva because I find it easy to use and it has whatever I need.
Gentoo is also nice, I love it for being a rolling release and highly optimizable with good documentation.
I did not say one is better than other, I say how I get to use some distro or other.
And to Global Moderator : @};-, if you know what I mean...

Coolio, just bear it in mind, please

toad wrote:Coolio, just bear it in mind, please

Of course.
Offtopic Question: why kubuntu 11.4 is supported until October 2012 and 10.04 LTS until April 2013? You made me curious.

10.04 is supported for longer as it is a LTS (Long Term Support) version.

Note that if you have root on your system, you should be able to install KDE under Ubuntu 10.04 (as there is no difference between Ubuntu 10.04 and Kubuntu 10.04 other than what the default installation includes)

bcooksley wrote:10.04 is supported for longer as it is a LTS (Long Term Support) version.

Note that if you have root on your system, you should be able to install KDE under Ubuntu 10.04 (as there is no difference between Ubuntu 10.04 and Kubuntu 10.04 other than what the default installation includes)

I hate to hijack this thread.
I don't want to discuss here or anywhere why I love KDE, but I am a really KDE guy, not a Gnome user. So I would take always the KUbuntu distro from the first place, so I don't need to install KDE after. This is a reason I use Mandriva too, it's KDE centric.

I'm a OOP guy, I like generality, and the KDE approach regarding plasmoids is like the light to a butterfly.

One question more for KUbuntu. Since 11.4 I can't find a source distro for it (ubuntu 10.4 has source CD/DVD apart from kubuntu). And more.. Is there a notebook distro for kubuntu?
Please accept my apologies for these two questions here (I know they should be on kubuntu's forums...). But you seem to know these things
Thanks.

The installation of KDE in Ubuntu was intended for airdrik, whom has no choice of distribution. Ideally installing a KDE distro (or their KDE flavour) such as Kubuntu/Mandriva/OpenSUSE is preferred though.

For Netbooks, see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Netbook (I assume you meant Netbook rather than Notebook)

bcooksley wrote:The installation of KDE in Ubuntu was intended for airdrik, whom has no choice of distribution. Ideally installing a KDE distro (or their KDE flavour) such as Kubuntu/Mandriva/OpenSUSE is preferred though.

For Netbooks, see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Netbook (I assume you meant Netbook rather than Notebook)

Sure, thank you.

KDE 4.7 for Windows has not been stable yet...