My OperaThoughts on Ubuntu 8.04
Monday, April 28, 2008 3:32:12 AM
Well if you go to my 'feelings on vista' post you'll see I'm not to impressed with it. I have a similar feeling with Ubuntu this time.. the feeling is average. 
It runs well, does what it's supposed to do, which is generally speaking a good thing however one of the most annoying 'features' is now every time I boot into Ubuntu I get a x recovery menu..
One of the great features of Hardy was:
However I've had nothing but X issues as seen here by this handy print screen of my x11 directory:
Every time it tries to 'recover x' it just backs up a file and remakes the same file that has the same issues.
Another thing:
Fantastic except your player can't even seek to where a person clicks. GG.
Am I the only one this affects? Open up a video in totem, then move your mouse to the centre of the seek bar, click in the centre, does the video seek to the centre of the video, or does it bounce back to the start? I have contacted a developer (about 6 months ago) and nothing has changed.
Firefox is faster. Which makes it open about as fast as every other browser and not photoshop.
Overall the most significant thing that 8.04 has brought to me has been this:
which seams pretty insignificant compared to this:
http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/yahoo-weather
I understand this is a LTS release so there are no major changes involved, (That's why they included Firefox Beta in the final release, and not KDE4..) So here's to hoping that 8.10 is much more refined, bug free and content updated!
It runs well, does what it's supposed to do, which is generally speaking a good thing however one of the most annoying 'features' is now every time I boot into Ubuntu I get a x recovery menu..
One of the great features of Hardy was:
The latest version of the [WWW] X window system, Xorg 7.3, is provided, with an emphasis on better autoconfiguration with a minimal configuration file.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/RC
However I've had nothing but X issues as seen here by this handy print screen of my x11 directory:
Every time it tries to 'recover x' it just backs up a file and remakes the same file that has the same issues.
Another thing:
Totem
The Totem movie player now has a YouTube plugin that makes it possible to search for and play YouTube videos directly, a local search plugin for searching for video files via Tracker, and DVB support that lets you watch digital TV broadcasts.
Fantastic except your player can't even seek to where a person clicks. GG.
Am I the only one this affects? Open up a video in totem, then move your mouse to the centre of the seek bar, click in the centre, does the video seek to the centre of the video, or does it bounce back to the start? I have contacted a developer (about 6 months ago) and nothing has changed.
Firefox 3 Beta 5
[WWW] Firefox 3 Beta 5 is the default browser, bringing much better system integration including GTK form buttons in web pages, a native GTK print dialog, file chooser dialogs with image previews, and icon theming that matches the desktop environment.
Firefox is faster. Which makes it open about as fast as every other browser and not photoshop.
Overall the most significant thing that 8.04 has brought to me has been this:
which seams pretty insignificant compared to this:
http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/yahoo-weather
I understand this is a LTS release so there are no major changes involved, (That's why they included Firefox Beta in the final release, and not KDE4..) So here's to hoping that 8.10 is much more refined, bug free and content updated!
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