blackbelt_jones
06-10-2009, 11:51 PM
Okay , now, this is kind of a rant, but it's supposed to be a funny rant. This isn't really a big deal, but I think it's kind of hilarious cause it's so bizarre. Now I'm gonna go ahead and kontradict myself. I know I just said that Kubuntu doesn't suck... but somethimes, they kind of do, a little. Suck, I mean. in little ways
My grudge against Kubuntu goes back a couple of years to KDE 3.5, because back then Kubuntu had this strange habit of removing the "Go" button from Konqueror. The Go Button (which has been restored in KDE 4 ) is this great button that could take you to anything Konqueror could do. If you could find the button, you could find the function. But you couldn't find the button in Kubuntu, because they took it out. There was probably a way to get it back, but I never found it. Instead I learned to bypass kubuntu by installing ubuntu and apt-getting a vanilla KDE desktop.
I never ever forgot. Not because it was such a terrible thing, but because it was inexplicable. Someone had looked at a button that says "GO" and decided that it was dead weight, not important. How does that happen?
Okay, here something that's a lot less serious, a lot more bizarre, and I think it's one of them them "things that make you go 'hmmm'".
First, here's a screenshot I found out the web, from Gentoo. It's the introductionary page from Konqueror 4.2.4. If you're a Konqueror user, it's pretty familiar.
http://i546.photobucket.com/albums/hh433/blackbelt_jones_screenshots/1738.png
Okay, so this a screenshot from My Kubuntu Jaunty system. with KDE 4.2.2. installed. Kubuntu has decided to scrap the traditional introductory page, and make a radical departure. Out with the old, in with the inexplicable!
http://i546.photobucket.com/albums/hh433/blackbelt_jones_screenshots/snapshot1-7.png
Did I dream that? Or did they rebuild konqueror's introductory page entirely around Google's "I feel Lucky" window? I once heard an interview on NPR with the founder of Google, who said that if he had to do it over agian, he would have left that out. He didn't say why, but I sort of got the idea that it was because it was sooooo useless.
Two questions come to mind: "What were they thinking?" and "What if I don't feel lucky? What then?"
Now, I'm not complaining. I'm only mocking this because I think it's hilarious. The overall performance of Kubuntu Jaunty has impressed me. I tried slapping KDE4 on a couple of distros I considered to be real performers, and by my judgement, the performance was inferior to kubuntu. They can put whatever the hell they want on that page. And, as a matter of fact, I would plead for them to leave it in cause it's so damn weird. It's cute, it's idiosyncratic. It's local color. Just looking at it makes me feel lucky to be alive.
My grudge against Kubuntu goes back a couple of years to KDE 3.5, because back then Kubuntu had this strange habit of removing the "Go" button from Konqueror. The Go Button (which has been restored in KDE 4 ) is this great button that could take you to anything Konqueror could do. If you could find the button, you could find the function. But you couldn't find the button in Kubuntu, because they took it out. There was probably a way to get it back, but I never found it. Instead I learned to bypass kubuntu by installing ubuntu and apt-getting a vanilla KDE desktop.
I never ever forgot. Not because it was such a terrible thing, but because it was inexplicable. Someone had looked at a button that says "GO" and decided that it was dead weight, not important. How does that happen?
Okay, here something that's a lot less serious, a lot more bizarre, and I think it's one of them them "things that make you go 'hmmm'".
First, here's a screenshot I found out the web, from Gentoo. It's the introductionary page from Konqueror 4.2.4. If you're a Konqueror user, it's pretty familiar.
http://i546.photobucket.com/albums/hh433/blackbelt_jones_screenshots/1738.png
Okay, so this a screenshot from My Kubuntu Jaunty system. with KDE 4.2.2. installed. Kubuntu has decided to scrap the traditional introductory page, and make a radical departure. Out with the old, in with the inexplicable!
http://i546.photobucket.com/albums/hh433/blackbelt_jones_screenshots/snapshot1-7.png
Did I dream that? Or did they rebuild konqueror's introductory page entirely around Google's "I feel Lucky" window? I once heard an interview on NPR with the founder of Google, who said that if he had to do it over agian, he would have left that out. He didn't say why, but I sort of got the idea that it was because it was sooooo useless.
Two questions come to mind: "What were they thinking?" and "What if I don't feel lucky? What then?"
Now, I'm not complaining. I'm only mocking this because I think it's hilarious. The overall performance of Kubuntu Jaunty has impressed me. I tried slapping KDE4 on a couple of distros I considered to be real performers, and by my judgement, the performance was inferior to kubuntu. They can put whatever the hell they want on that page. And, as a matter of fact, I would plead for them to leave it in cause it's so damn weird. It's cute, it's idiosyncratic. It's local color. Just looking at it makes me feel lucky to be alive.