[ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Kmail and IMAP

2011-07-31 Thread Vince Marsters
Morning All, Wonder if anyone can suggest anything to help me fix a small problem I am having. I am using Kubuntu with KDE 4.6.5 and Kmail 1.13.6 collecting email using IMAP. Whenever I open Kmail any existing mail does not show in the preview pane until I double click to open it. After this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Kmail and IMAP

2011-07-31 Thread Vince Marsters
On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 11:35:52 Vince Marsters wrote: Morning All, Wonder if anyone can suggest anything to help me fix a small problem I am having. I am using Kubuntu with KDE 4.6.5 and Kmail 1.13.6 collecting email using IMAP. Whenever I open Kmail any existing mail does not show in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Hardy to Jaunty failed

2009-10-17 Thread Mark Fraser
On Friday 16 Oct 2009 21:00:56 Alan Pope wrote: 2009/10/16 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Oh dear. I'm sure it was discussed a week or so ago about upgrading between versions. I gather it's not a good idea to upgrade from more than one version to another at a time, so I guess from Hardy,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Hardy to Jaunty failed

2009-10-16 Thread Rob Beard
Mark Fraser wrote: I've tried the Kubuntu mailinglist, but haven't had a response. So I thought I'd try here. I tried to upgrade my wife's computer from Hardy to Jaunty this week after successfully doing it on 2 other computers. This time it started coming up with error messages saying

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Hardy to Jaunty failed

2009-10-16 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/16 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Oh dear.  I'm sure it was discussed a week or so ago about upgrading between versions.  I gather it's not a good idea to upgrade from more than one version to another at a time, so I guess from Hardy, you'd need to upgrade to Intrepid, then Jaunty.

[ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Hardy swirly wallpaper - wow!

2008-02-25 Thread alan c
I really like the Hardy (alpha 5) Kubuntu curly swirly wallpaper. 6.06 (misty bubbles) was not bad, it had a level of subtlety and mystery which I appreciated, but since then I have been a bit unhappy with the un inspired defaults - which live CD users get. This Kubuntu alpha 5 has what looks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-18 Thread Jim Kissel
Chris Rowson wrote: Scrase, Eddie wrote: I'm probably stating the obvious here, but if the two bars are a problem, you can always move everything from the top bar down to the bottom and then delete the top bar (which is what I have done on my installation). You can also replace the Gnome

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-18 Thread Stephen Garton
On 17/09/2007, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scrase, Eddie wrote: I'm probably stating the obvious here, but if the two bars are a With reference to the 2-bars setup, My mother-in-law uses Ubuntu (on my recommendation!), and the first thing she mentioned when I asked her how she was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-18 Thread Pete Stean
It all comes down to personal preference I guess, but the nice thing about Gnome is that it hides the complexity of the system from the user unless they actively go searching for it - and to someone for whom a computer is effectively just a web-browser and a platform for email and IM clients

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-17 Thread Scrase, Eddie
I'm probably stating the obvious here, but if the two bars are a problem, you can always move everything from the top bar down to the bottom and then delete the top bar (which is what I have done on my installation). You can also replace the Gnome Applications/Places/System menus with a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-17 Thread Jim Kissel
Scrase, Eddie wrote: I'm probably stating the obvious here, but if the two bars are a problem, you can always move everything from the top bar down to the bottom and then delete the top bar (which is what I have done on my installation). You can also replace the Gnome

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-17 Thread Chris Rowson
Scrase, Eddie wrote: I'm probably stating the obvious here, but if the two bars are a problem, you can always move everything from the top bar down to the bottom and then delete the top bar (which is what I have done on my installation). You can also replace the Gnome

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-16 Thread alan c
Chris Rowson wrote: I promise, I'm not trolling! I've been moving users across from Windows to Linux for a while now, with - on the large - reasonable success. Because I use Gnome, and don't have much experience of using KDE, I've just always installed Ubuntu by default and not really given

[ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-15 Thread Chris Rowson
I promise, I'm not trolling! I've been moving users across from Windows to Linux for a while now, with - on the large - reasonable success. Because I use Gnome, and don't have much experience of using KDE, I've just always installed Ubuntu by default and not really given Kubuntu the time of day.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-15 Thread Matthew Wild
On 9/15/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I promise, I'm not trolling! It's unavoidable when you mention KDE and GNOME in the same email :) Lately, I've demonstrated Ubuntu to some real computer novices who've commented why is the start button at the top, and why are there two bars

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-15 Thread Chris Rowson
definitely worth a look so you can see for yourself. Matthew. I thought that might be worth a bash Matthew, I've just installed Kubuntu Gutsy Tribe 5 to see what all of the fuss is about. In the past I've only tried installing kubuntu-desktop over the top of gnome. First impressions are that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-15 Thread David Morley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/09/2007, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: definitely worth a look so you can see for yourself. Matthew. I thought that might be worth a bash Matthew, I've just installed Kubuntu Gutsy Tribe 5 to see what all of the fuss is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users

2007-09-15 Thread Chris Rowson
I think this is definitely one for personal preference. I think that Kubuntu and kde have a lot to offer. However I personally prefer gnome. This isn't because I'm some numpty like some people would insist but because it works the way I expect it to. This is definitely a suck and see

[ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu on Live CD

2007-09-05 Thread Ian Pascoe
Hi Folks At the LUG meeting I went to last night, one of the guys was trying to install kubuntu onto his new laptop - an Advanta (?) that currently has vista on it. He wanted to make it a dual boot machine, so far so good. However, when the Live CD booted up, the maximum screen size it would

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu

2007-04-22 Thread Tristan Wibberley
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 19:03 +0100, James Hargreaves wrote: For anyone downloading Kubuntu 7.04 desktop i386 , I suggest using the HTTP download, the torrent is much slower (25kbps compared to ~70kbps for HTTP) at the moment. Are you on British Telecom? I heard a rumour that bittorrent was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu

2007-04-22 Thread Tony Arnold
Tristan, Tristan Wibberley wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 19:03 +0100, James Hargreaves wrote: For anyone downloading Kubuntu 7.04 desktop i386 , I suggest using the HTTP download, the torrent is much slower (25kbps compared to ~70kbps for HTTP) at the moment. Are you on British Telecom? I

[ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu

2007-04-19 Thread James Hargreaves
For anyone downloading Kubuntu 7.04 desktop i386 , I suggest using the HTTP download, the torrent is much slower (25kbps compared to ~70kbps for HTTP) at the moment. Cheers, James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu

2007-04-19 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:03:06PM +0100, James Hargreaves wrote: For anyone downloading Kubuntu 7.04 desktop i386 , I suggest using the HTTP download, the torrent is much slower (25kbps compared to ~70kbps for HTTP) at the moment. That's not normal. Have you opened the necessary ports on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Screencast

2006-11-13 Thread Stuart Parkington
Ok, I gave this whole screencast thing a go, it's on upgrading packages, like Alans last one, but for Kubuntu. It's not what you'd call in-depth but I tried to cover the same stuff Alan went over in his one. It's about 7 mins long and covers the Adept updater and Adept package manager,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Screencast

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:13:08AM +, Stuart Parkington wrote: Ok, I gave this whole screencast thing a go, it's on upgrading packages, like Alans last one, but for Kubuntu. It's not what you'd call in-depth but I tried to cover the same stuff Alan went over in his one. It's about

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Screencast

2006-11-13 Thread Tez
Stuart Parkington wrote: Ok, I gave this whole screencast thing a go, it's on upgrading packages, like Alans last one, but for Kubuntu. It's not what you'd call in-depth but I tried to cover the same stuff Alan went over in his one. It's about 7 mins long and covers the Adept updater and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Screencast

2006-11-13 Thread Tez
Tez wrote: It's also on archive.org but doesn't seem to be live yet, You can now watch it or download it from archive.org http://www.archive.org/details/Installing_Updates_Kubuntu Tez -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk