Kubuntu or Ubuntu+KDE

[ITWombat]

There have been mutterings on the web that Kubuntu and other official derivatives haven't received the same development effort and therefore aren't as up to date as the normal Gnome-based Ubuntu.

 

Does that mean that users who prefer KDE should download it after installing the normal Ubuntu?

[Geoff]

You should read the original mailing list article. It explains the situation.

 

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2007-December/002099.html

[CyberNerd]

I already installed kde4rc2 on my laptop, from here:

http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde4-rc2.php

Instructions:

   * Remove previous KDE 4 packages, they are not compatible (apt-get remove kdelibs5 kde4base-data kde4libs-data)
   * Add deb [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu[/url] gutsy main to your /etc/apt/sources.list
   * Install the updated kdebase-bin
   * Install kdebase-workspace kdebase-kde4 kdebase-runtime, note that PPAs aren't authenticated so you will likely get a warning when installing
   * KDE 4 apps should appear in your KDE 3 K-menu or you can run a full session by selecting "KDE 4" from your login manager.
   * To avoid having to start a second X server for a full session install xserver-xephyr and run Xephyr :1 & export DISPLAY=:1; xterm and run startkde in the Xerphyr xterm.

 

It looks good, but I'm finding the changes are really quite radical ! anyone know where files on the desktop go? still some bugs so I see why they want to stick to 3.5.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KDE_4.png

[ITWombat]

It looks good, but I'm finding the changes are really quite radical ! anyone know where files on the desktop go? [/img]

 

Oh dear. This is the kind of thing Microsoft would do

[CyberNerd]

It seems conceptually quite different from kde3, the desktop is made from superkaramba style applets. I can't help feeling they borrowed a lot from vista.