On 11/29/2010 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it.
I tried kde 4.x during its early Dark Days and finally gave up in complete bafflement. Well, so many people in this group are enthusiastic supporters of kde I decided I'd give it another go over our long holiday weekend. I dreaded the thought of compiling the entire kde desktop on gentoo (again!) so instead I came up with the brilliant idea of installing kubuntu on a VirtualBox linux guest machine on my gentoo host. The installation of kubuntu was brain-dead-easy (that's the whole point of *ubuntu, after all) but when I logged in and started to use the kubuntu kde desktop to do actual work (shudder) I quickly found myself in a hopeless muddle (yet again!). My theory is that anyone over forty just doesn't understand what young-punk developers are about, these days. When I was a young punk myself, long ago, the mantra was "Don't trust anyone over forty!" (But I don't suppose you're old enough to remember those days.) I think today's young-punk developers must certainly feel the same way about old-fart (over-forty) lusers like me. (You?)
