Kubuntu 16-04 Beta2 amd64 testing notes ---------------------------------------
Platform: Samsung R710 Intel centrino 3Gb RAM, SSD Drives, NVidia Graphics Summary ------- Good solid start, with many of the features working, which includes resolution to some problems I had been having on 15.10. I did manage to find some elements that I believe require attention. Testing Notes ------------- 1 - Live ISO burnt to USB, and booted fine, but the Kubuntu Installer icon on the desktop was very small, and you could not see what it was, nor read what it said. I was also unable to resize this. There for there was no way of knowing what the was for, which would be a bad experience for new users wanting to install Kubuntu. 2 - At the end of the installation, the reboot dropped me to a black screen with a mouse arrow, and just sat there forever. In the end I had to resort to power cycling the machine. Some application problems Kicker > Applications > Graphics > Display and edit image files (Image Magick) - There is no icon, and it does not launch. My advice would be to remove this, as we have Gwenview sitting 2 entries below. Instant Messenger Contacts ( KDE-Telepathy ) -------------------------------------------- Kicker > Applications > Internet > Instant Messenger Contacts : I tried to connect an account, which offered me Telegram as an option, but it does not work, looks like a missing dependency "This IM Account cannot be created - a Telepathy Connection Manager named 'morse' is missing or it cannot handle protocol 'telegram'. Please try installing morse with your package manager." Also Video and Audio calling buttons are Greyed out - I read an article in Linux User and Developer about this, which suggests the problem is due to :- "Further, most users will have their Video call buttons greyed out, simply because either the telepathy-kde-call-ui or the Farstream Gstreamer codec, or its QT bindings, will be missing." We really should fix this :-D Kicker > Applications > Internet > KDE Instant messenger log viewer : I am a bit confused as to why we want this included in the base install Kicker > Applications > Internet > PIM Settings exporter has no icon set Kicker > Applications > Internet > SSH AskPass has no icon and does not launch, this should probably be left as a command line tool, and removed from this menu Kicker > Applications > Internet > Web Browser ( Firefox ) - I suggest this be placed at the top of the menu list, or if you want to maintain alphabetical consistency, then name it Firefox ( Web Browser ) and place it below Feed Reader Kontact ------- Attempting to click on the Feeds icon in Kontact, results in a Crash of Akregator. When you then attempt to report the bug, you get the following. "The problem cannot be reported: You have some obsolete package versions installed. Please upgrade the following packages and check if the problem still occurs: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, libboost-system1.58.0, libboost-thread1.58.0, libcups2, libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0, libgstreamer1.0-0, libpcre16-3, libpcre3, libxerces-c3.1, ucf" Which appears to be an issue with Apport Activities ---------- I setup a new Activity called Test, with a keyboard shortcut Ctl+Alt+1. The shortcuts do not work. I tried also setting a short cut for the default activity to Ctl+Alt+d but that did not work either. I think Activity keyboard shortcuts have been broken for a while Plasmoids --------- I tried loading the CPU Monitor, and Network monitor, they appear on the desktop, but there are no configuration handles, resizing handles, and no graphics. I tried the digital which did show the time, and clicking would display calendar, but the same problem exists with configuration and resizing. Hope this is useful Rick Timmis -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
