I like 9.0rc2 very much. I am still testing it. However, the user interface of Mandrake control center et al. is still inconsistent on my system. (9.0rc2)
Sometimes, kdesu is used, sometimes it is another application. For example, for Software Sources, the KDE menu item calls /usr/sbin/edit-urpm-sources.pl while for the MDK Control Center, it calls /usr/sbin/drakconf While drakconf spawns a kdesu dialog, edit-urpm-sources.pl spawns a GTK dialog without themes and does it in such way that the KDE application startup icon gets messed up just like if it could not lauch the application. Other applications such as menudrake or the password change application show a very uggly theme (buttons, menus) under KDE (while this is not the case of the MDK Control Center which shows a nice theme with gray gradients or for userdrake). The problem is quite general : it seems that there is no policy for consistency among Mandrake configuration applications on the way themes should be rendered or on the way root passwords should be asked to the user. Sometimes, it is kdesu, sometimes it is something else. Sometimes, there are nice themes, sometimes it is plain uggly flat rendering of menus and buttons. Also, (I do not know if that was taken into account), I think that it would be nice if the /root directory contained all the required default settings for propper rendering of themes without requiring users to first login as root before they get consistent themes under KDE whenever they call Mandrake Control Center. JPS. -- Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes Nexedi CEO Tel. +33(0)6 62 05 76 14 Fax. +33(0)1 53 01 09 29 About www.nexedi.com Nexedi is a consulting and development services company helping small and medium organisations to choose open source / free software and fulfill their IT application needs. Nexedi is the founder of the ERP5 project, a Free / Open Source ERP software based on innovative technologies (www.erp5.org). About www.storever.com Storever provides a reliable source for OpenBrick, notebooks and servers preconfigured with the GNU/Linux operating system