Introduction

• Add your feedback like this w/o the bold, and then use the @SIG@ at the end of your line, look at the first post for reference

• All serious issues should be still submitted as bug!

Feedback

• Wireless doesn't work on Dell XPS M1330 with Intel iwl4965 chipset. Network Manager never connects to the WAP, prompting multiple times for passphrase. Looking at "dmesg" shows the kernel is still constantly authenticating and deauthenticating from the AP for "reason 11". Kubuntu Hardy still works just fine.

  • On top of that, the Network Manager applet doesn't even show me a list of available wireless networks when I click on the icon in the panel! I have to click "choose another network"! Even after doing that, there is no indication of signal strength, security status, or whether a network is infrastructure or ad-hoc. How many years has it been since Hardy came out, and this still isn't fixed? -- launchpad-alphapapa 2009-10-04 08:25:08

• Kontact doesn't start!

• I ran the beta (netbook edition) on my Dell Mini 9 and it really looks great and feels pretty solid for a beta release of a preview OS. Excellent! -- lmilano 2009-10-02 12:32:51

• Wifi is not working in the beta (netbook edition) on Dell Minis (unless configured manually). More here: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3106673.0 -- lmilano 2009-10-02 12:32:51

• KPackageKit is not working in the beta (netbook edition), on Dell Minis, either. It doesn't ask for root password. This might be related to the previous item. It may very well be PolicyKit failing. I'll dig around and report in Launchpad. -- lmilano 2009-10-02 12:32:51

• Even Alpha6 was awesome, with little to no issues for a desktop install on x86-64. Love the new look. -- matthewlange 2009-10-02 16:22:52

• Amarok recommends installing additional packages from it's little icon in the panel. On Karmic beta, Amarok didn't play mp3 files until these packages were installed. -- jynyl 2009-10-03 07:32:11

• Now, each time I login I have a kwin crash, and PulseAudio stops working. @jpgnux@ 2024-04-28 03:16:04

• Great work, in particular KDE 4.3 is really usable now. I suggest to remove ktimetracker from kontact. The reason: open kontact, click on the ktimetracker icon at the bottom, close kontact: now kontact won't start anymore ! san-vu-ngoc 2024-04-28 03:16:04

• I suggest also to make the installer window resizable: when choosing the French language (for instance), the working window on the right becomes really small and you cannot read everything.san-vu-ngoc 2024-04-28 03:16:04

• Its a real SHAME that ubuntu comes with splashX but not Kubuntu That's one really awesome feature and it would be good to see in Kubuntu as well. ktech 2024-04-28 03:16:04

• Too many regressions:
  • X.org keeps crashing (usually once a day) on random occasion using nvidia graphics driver (nv doesn't do the necessary resolution...)
  • dselect considers all packages as new that are not currently installed
  • pc speaker disabled by default for no comprehensible reason
  • no amarok1

  • ... but thumbs up for finally having KDE 4.3 -- kubuntu-rk 2009-10-04 20:47:03

  • notifications frequently hide half way under the panel, thus not showing the most relevant part of the message
  • compositing is increadibly slow - between clicking the border of a window and the resize following the mouse position, sometimes easily 5-6 seconds pass (idle system, Athlon64 X2 4200+), in particular when resizing konsole windows

  • updated -- kubuntu-rk 2009-10-05 12:24:11

• The copy and extract processes still take enormous amount of CPU and system becomes unusable.
• Network manager application still has problems, and can't connect to WEP ASCII encription only HEX.
• No tuned x-bases splash for kubuntu, even though it has nothing to do with KDE or DE at all ?!
• Python process still hogs CPU when checking for update or after 'apt-get update' command
• Notification for new upgrades still looks ugly with button overlapping background 'shield' image
• Not a singly piece of artwork added ! Only one wallpaper available, and it is KDE default.
• Thumbs up for openOffice integration
• Would be nice to have informative installer slideshow like in Ubuntu (see Kubuntu alpha5 feedback)
• Kubuntu web page still looks ugly, even though some artists on kde-look.org made some mockups still nothing has been changed. I though that kubuntu homepage redesign was in todo list for karmic?
• Kpackagekit is still in bad shape.
• Thumbs up for comment:

  • How many years has it been since Hardy came out, and this still isn't fixed?

  Take this comment and apply it to, no only networking, but to Kpackagekit functionality, high CPU usage for python after update and copy/extract processes CPU usage. @SIG

• Kubuntu will not shutdown it there are other concurrent sessions. It will show list of other sessions, after clicking OK it shows black screen and only way out is the reset button.
• Thumbs up for most development decisions this time. Good work there... Anyway, some decisions are again too much 'bleeding-edge'. K3b crashed two times leaving the DVDs currently burned unusable. Why is it included if even this is stated by upstream: "There are still many open issues with the GUI which needs fixing. So this is only a testing release, not intended for production work."
• The most annoying regressions for me in the last three or four releases are all related to crashes and performance issues with X.org. This is not specific to Kubuntu as it is also bad for Ubuntu as a whole. Perhaps (K)Ubuntu should really focus more on stuff related to X and testing of X and be more conservative here or at least offer on option to the user so that he can be conservative. At least the vast graphical corruption issues that happened in 9.04 because QT 4.5 has been used seem to be solved. Keep up the good work...