On Sunday 16 November 2003 06:12 pm, Alberto Ridolfi wrote: > Hello guys, > I give support at MandrakeExpert and there was an > incident created by an user very dissatisfied with > Mandrake Linux 9.2. If you guys want to take a closer > look, the incident number is 72784. The user says > after upgrading to Mandrake 9.2 from Mandrake 9.0 he's > lost a lot of features and customization he'd made. In > answer to him, I said I would forward his complains > about mdk 9.2 to Cooker guys to try to improve the > next version. What do you guys think about his > opnions? Do you think these things can be changed? > Below is the message transcript. > Later, > Alberto M. > ---------------------------------------------- > I just installed Mandrake 9.2 over my 9.0. I have > lost the following functions, and I want them > back. > kpp - I had a button on my pannel to launch kpp to > dial my isp. Now there is no function there. > > Superuser file manager - There was a superuser > file manager under the file manager section of my > start menu. It is now gone. What is the function > that it linked to so I can get it back and > manipulate the files as root without haveing to > mess around with an su in a terminal somewhere? > > Kmail address book is gone - Kmail is now asking > for an address book. I want the one I was using > before. > > Under the configuration menu the login manager > asked for the root password and let me do useful > stuff. The new version doesn't. > > So far, I consider 9.2 a major step backward. I > have to send this message from Windows. > > [after, he sent another one]: > > I have reloaded the packages for KPPP and KAddressBook > to my system. KAddressBook did find all my e-mail > addresses. Incidently, I also lost the game Freecell. > > My bigger problem is I can't connect to my ISP through > my modem. The connections got lost when I upgraded. I > did use the config tool to setup the internet > connection, but none of my programs (Kmail, pan, > galleon, mozilla, opera, etc.) can connect, and all > report that they are unable to connect to the > requested host. > > Finally, my SCSI devices have disappeared. My swap > file is on the SCSI drive, so this is a potential > problem. At least I have 512 meg of memory. > > Please help. I have to use Windows whenever I want to > go to the net, and I can't install my Win4Lin until I > get the internet connection back up to get the latest > modified kernel from Netraverse. > > Finally, can you go back to the old x-windows signon > window. With the new one, you can only login for users > that are on the list. The old one also allowed you to > enter the user's name. I was hoping to change the > window, or at least add root to the list by using the > login manager from the desktop manager (don't you > think this should be in the configuration manager > too?), and selected the administrator button. The > window appeard to allow me to enter the root password. > The main window went blank and said loading. But then > it blinked for a minute. I could see that the text > boxes were active. Then almost instantly, it went > blank again, and the window was as it is when the > program starts. So I cannot change the login > interface. > > Is there some way to get rid of the background on all > the pseudo terminals on F1 through F6? > > Can the startup and shutdown all be set to default to > verbose mode? > > The new kde icons look like they were stollen from > Windows XP. Any way to go back to the old ones? > > It does look to me as though you rushed this to the > field, and did not do complete testing. This is the > kind of thing I expect from Microsoft. > Based on my understanding, there is not much here that was not a design choice by mdk. icons, login manager, superuser filemanager, problems caused by KDE package splits, no root login, etc., etc. These can all be fixed just by manually changing the configuration or installing packages. The modem and scsi issues seem like real problems, but I don't have any answer for them. -- /g
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