On Monday 11 of August 2014 22:08:52 Peter Laws wrote:
Got a new workstation. Wrong video card. The vendor
-- rhymes with Bell
-- was happy to send me a 2-port card and 3 displays when I ordered a card
that had 3 ports (because, hello, three displays).
No problem, purchasing person, just have them send me the new card and I'll
send the old one back. Nope, no can do, user guy. Send the whole system
back.
Three weeks later ...
I decide I want the latest Kubuntu. I see that there is no TDE for 14.04
so I think "OK, surely they've made KDE 4 usable by now given that it's
been how many years?"
Um, no. Panels won't extend across multiple screens - have to have one for
each. Do those stay on the screens where you put them? No they don't.
Surely this is something new. No, it is not - googling around tells me
that it's at least 5 years old *and* the plasma idiots say that this won't
be fixed because it isn't a problem.
Even *Konsole* is farked up. What a mess.
So here I am ... begging for 14.04 support in TDE because I really don't
have the time to spend reinstalling *again* (I skipped over the Fedora 20
and CentOS 6 chapters of the story). This is a work system, where I do
work, not a play system where I play. That is a distinction lost on the
plasma/KDE 4 idiots.
Help?
For Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) you can use the development version of TDE R14.
You have two options:
1) Official nightly-builds:
deb
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-build-de…
trusty main
deb
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-builds/u…
trusty main
2) Alternative preliminary-stable-builds:
deb
http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb trusty deps-r14 main-r14
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Slavek