David Walluck wrote:
1.) xfs support (with no ext2 /boot parition). I just reported this recently, and have reported it ever since xfs support went in versions ago.The issue isn't where your boot partition is (AFAIK), it's where LILO is installed to (not necessarily the same thinge). Last time I tried XFS on root there was a warning.
2.) the infamous mouse-wheel problem. WHy does it happen only on install?
Maybe because people installing can't read.
And there is a way to fix it by switching out of X and then back in, or something like that. It's not like the install is *definately* over at that point. Even still, rpmdrake should work without a mouse. It does not. If you have no mouse or the mouse wheel goes crazy, you won' be able to get past the install packages stage.Last time I forgot to scroll the wheel, I hit the cancel button (with [TAB] and [SPACE] and it took me back, and I scrolled the wheel. I don't see the problem.
But better no-mouse support would be nice after install. It's impossible to configure a mouse without a mouse (ok, not impossible, but no way a newbie would find it).
3.) mandrake control center. This thing never works for me. All applications crash or hang. The new version definitely looks better, but so what if it doesn't work. Eugenia may have a point about these old gtk (actually perl) programs not fitting in well with the rest of the OS.Never had a problem with MCC ... and I use it quite a bit. Drakfont could be improved though.
KDE isn't the OS. There are more desktops that use GTK than Qt. Qt is bigger than GTK, a lot of GTK is required anyway. Qt bindings for perl apparently suck. Wait for perl-GTK to update to GTK2 ....
Unless she forgot to tell us that she chose LDAP (unlikely). Funny though, LDAP support in Mandrake works out the box for me. There are apparently issues with seperate /usr ...
4.) login problems. Could this be because LDAP is enabled but the network or ldap is not up and running? mandrkae has poor support for this feature.
Did you actually read the thread on this a while back? Fred said it would be done when he get's back.
5.) anti-aliased fonts. RedHat's xft2 support might be the way to go, and this should be looked at for 9.1.
Of course, it seems some people think eye candy is more important than real features. I am glad Mandrakesoft doesn't. Would you rather have a totally broken but pretty Mandrake Control Center?
Buchan
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