vivek wrote:
On Wed, March 2, 2005 1:59, Anupam Jain said:Well I don't plan to change my WM just for this minor irritant, much less my entire distribution! I've used Mandrake 10.0 community before and it never gave me much trouble, only the 10.1 official seems to be a bit rough around the edges.. Nothing "official" about it ;)
[snip]Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
On Tuesday 01 Mar 2005 11:55 am, Anupam Jain wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am facing a very silly problem with konqueror.. Sometimes (for eg.
when an html file is named README.html), it insists on opening perfectly
Ummm... Embedded "Advanced" Text Editor.. It's like a cruel joke..module (which I don't have installed). Then I have to open kwrite and then open the file from it.
While these things are only minor irritents, they do interrupt the workflow.. Is there a way to fix this behaviour of konqueror? I'm using Mandrake 10.1.
What have you set for your "Embedded Text Editor" in Control Center?
just a suggestion, instead of fiddling with so many options and spending time fixing/customizing things than actual working, try out gnome. get the Ubuntu CDs and use it for some time, yu should feel the difference
I'm not gonna advocate KDE over Gnome ar vice versa. Problems are in every system, but only till you find the correct solution.. If one exists, and one always does.. And I'm sure the above problem with konqueror is simple enough for a solution to exist..
As for Ubuntu, I've been using it for only a day now but I already have quite a few gripes with it.
The install procedure does not ask for a root password! I did add a new user during installation but somehow the installation (which is fully Text based) messes up the text entry (i.e. the password) and I was unable to login to my computer.. I had to boot into a root text shell through the installation cd and change the root password manually.
I use sify for internet browsing which uses a program called sifyconnect to logon to the net before any network activity is allowed. I configured the network during the installation procedure and everything went fine. But since I can't run the sifyconnect program during installation, I was unable to install the extra packages it offered. Which is ok if you have a clear option to install the extra packages after you get the system fully operational. I am yet to see one.
I changed the hostname to ubuntu during the install and that seemingly harmless step unleashed a host (pun unintended) of other problems after installation. Gnome said something about not being able to resolve the "ubuntu ip address" and that it would prevent gnome from working correctly.. I had no idea that by "ubuntu" it meant the localhost and assumed that gnome needs to connect to the ubuntu website in order to work (ok ok it seems stupid now but that's why hindsight is so great..) I clicked "log in anyway" and sure enough - gnome worked too slowly to do anything useful. I would click on a menu item and nothing would happen for a few minutes, then all of a sudden there will be a flurry of hard disk activity and the application would start. Needless to say it caused plenty surprise and disappointment. To fix the problem, I clicked on "System configuration > Network" and then waited for the configuration window to open.. And waited.. and waited.. Had it been my Mandrake Linux 10.1 I would have guessed by now that something was wrong and the application was not gonna start, but this was the unfamiliar Ubuntu and gnome (which was, by it's own admission, "not working correctly").. So I waited.. and waited.. and waited a bit more till I felt like Michelle McNelly waiting for my sister to get me a glass of water at night while in reality she was sleeping soundly. Just to confirm my fears I clicked on "Terminal" to be able to do a "ps -ae" and find out if the sister "aka network configuration process" was awake or not.. And again waited and waited and waited.. Tried a couple of other programs and the same results.. no program working, no terminal working, and no way to find out why.. Identification with the deaf blind of black was never more acute.. I switched to another virtual console and tried executing various applications from there. All of them exited with errors of "not being able to connect to the X server bla bla". Silence is not golden, it's black.. I shutdown ubuntu, booted into my Mandrake 10.1 and logged on to the net to find out a solution to this problem. It was simple enough - adding the line "ubuntu 127.0.0.1" in my /etc/hosts file. Still the ill-treatment handed out earlier is enough to throw any self-respecting user off the ubuntu bandwagon..
Me, I'm of a slightly thicker skin.. Plus I felt such an unknown sense of gratitude towards the Ubuntu people for sending me the cd sets free of cost that I simply could not give it up so easily. I logged on to Ubuntu again, wrote a few docs in OO, did some image editing in gimp, all went fine. Ubuntu looks good and stable and runs fast. I'm happy so far..
There are a few other things with Gnome that made me miss kde.. Nautilus is slick but still no replacement for konqueror.. Double clicking folder icons opens them in successive new windows and leads to lots of windows cluttering your workspace.. Nautilus has no embedded viewer (like kview).. No embedded text editor component at all (which would explain it's lack of options).. No tabbed browsing.. No embedded terminal..
In all, I'd rather stick to the problematic but familiar Mandrake 10.1 than move all my work completely to the problematic AND unfamiliar Ubuntu.. Ubuntu does look promising though and that's why I have it on a dual boot system with Mandrake as of now.. It's been an eventful first day and I'm tired, lets see what the future holds..
- AJ
_______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
