Re: [Haifux] KDE?

2009-01-29 Thread Yossi Gil
KDE is of course not related to networking, but, as I said, networking worked with 4.0 but not in 4.2. I guess it is an issue of integration with the distribution.I was not motivated enough to try to solve the problem, and I removed 200MB or so of KDE. I will just wait for Kubuntu 9.04, and give

Re: [Haifux] KDE?

2009-01-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/29 Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com: KDE is of course not related to networking, but, as I said, networking worked with 4.0 but not in 4.2. I guess it is an issue of integration with the distribution.I was not motivated enough to try to solve the problem, and I removed 200MB or so of KDE.

Re: [Haifux] KDE?

2009-01-29 Thread Yossi Gil
Dotan, The policy I would like to promote is that of diversity. OOo is great, but people should be able to choose between (at least) LaTeX, OOo, LyX, AbiWord, and KOffice. KOffice is more slick, but less compatible. I think that students should be exposed to a variety of tools. If I had to force

[Haifux] KDE?

2009-01-28 Thread Yossi Gil
Ok, I downloaded and installed KDE 4.2 on 8.10. I was impressed with the bells and whistles, but was not converted. For one KOffice did not work (I guess it is a distribution issue, but did not want to spend time on this. Second, the wireless did not work, so I had no connectivity (it was working

Re: [Haifux] KDE?

2009-01-28 Thread Sorana Fraier
wifi is not related to kde. It is related to the correct drivers and the kernel configuration. If it worked with older kernel, it should work with this one as well. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I downloaded and installed KDE 4.2 on 8.10. I was

Re: [Haifux] KDE?

2009-01-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
Another thing that I'd like to mention is that I recommend Open Office instead of Koffice, just for compatibility's sake. They do not interpret ODF the same way. If you want help with the wifi, let us know and we will solve it. First, though, try opening knetworkmanager and see if that will get