Feedback

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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 bugs!

Feedback

* Please post your feedback here -- claydoh 2009-10-20 18:22:06

* Very good release. However sound works even worse than Jaunty with every non-KDE app. For example a single Flash video within Firefox while you're listening to music with Amarok is enough to make Firefox crash. There's a bug about it : https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447844 . It stopped working when going from Intrepid to Jaunty, but now things get worse. Please, fix this bug ASAP because for the average user this make them think the whole system is crap while it rocks actually except for that single point !

  • PulseAudio always causes problems me. The solution for me is uninstall it. -- usr

  • Alternative solution I found : type command rm ~/.pulse* in a terminal, restart KDE, and everything works much better since when attempting to use PulseAudio Phonon falls back to ESD, which is old, hated but which works, at least !

* Nice release overall. Everything works, no crashes and no broken translations so far. Just some minor gripes: having "System Settings" in its own application sub-menu seems unnecessary, especially since they can also be found on the "Computer" tab. Additionally, I experienced the bug where trying to activate proprietary drivers does nothing (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/357134). If you can get rid of some of the remaining bugs, it seems this could be a solid release (finally!). -- Naproxeno 2009-10-22 23:33:00

  • Too many regressions, but a slight silver stripe at the horizon:
    • Good: finally KDE 4.3, which starts being usable
    • X.org keeps crashing (usually once a day) on random occasion using compositing and nvidia graphics driver (nv doesn't do the necessary resolution...)

    • dselect considers all packages as new that are not currently installed (LP #433680)

    • display frequently flickers black picture for a fraction of a second)
    • there have not been working display drivers in *buntu for over a year now
    • 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
    • pc speaker disabled by default for no comprehensible reason
    • no amarok1 - and yes, I once more tried Amarok2, it's still a no-go
    • notifications frequently hide somewhat way under the panel, moving them around makes them pop back - without hiding under the panel

    • -- kubuntu-rk 2009-10-23 10:08:46

* The first time I configured wifi I wrongly selected WEP instead of WPA. It then wasn't possible to change it. I mean, I could change it, but whatever I entered as passphrase would not work. I had to logoff and back on. This is from live CD. papaf

* The RC looks very promising and seems to be the most rock solid and usable (proably cause by KDE 4.3.2) release since the 8.04 release. Still the wireless and mobile broadband networking causes a lot of problems, even though the plasma-widget-networkmanagment have been polished a lot. For most releases since alpha 4 it (finally) works more reliable with e.g. hidden/none broadcasting wireless networks, but still struggles a lot with mobile broadband functionality (LP #334122). Finally the Canonical/Ubuntu decision to remove the restricted madwifi driver (ath_pci) and only serving the atheros kernel driver (ath5k) is fatal, as it keeps some notebooks and PCMCIA cards unusable on wifi networks (LP #276508), even though network management is usable. Keep on the good work guys, I really longs for the time where I can exchange 8.04 on my workhorse. -- happylinux

* Nice. Would be nice to have flash(64bit) as default on my 64bit system. But one thing, the settings for OpenOffice and Firefox are awfull. Some of the dialogs are unreadable. The app standard looks better. But over all Karmic Koala looks nice. -- Jakarta

* Does the netbook edition *really* have to be so large? I don't have any 800MB CDs lying around so I can't try it out yet! -- scottme

2009-10-24 18:31:30

* What I am still missing is the kind of (for a lack of a better word) "love" ubuntu receives. At least to me it seems that there are not as many improvements compared to the vanilla packages with kde as it is the case with gnome. Maybe most of it is just happening under the hood - which would be great, too - but I haven't noticed anything special that I might not find with a different distributor. -- florian-staudacher 2009-10-27 16:50:29