[Fwd: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10]

[Aviss,Tyler]

On 15-Oct-09, at 10:22 AM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>  
> wrote:
>> Rajinder Yadav さんは書きました:
>>>
>>> Thinking of upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10, maybe after a month it's out  
>>> in the
>>> wild. Note sure what they've done to make it better, anyone have  
>>> any ideas?
>>
>> Oddly enough, I upgraded to it last night (beta, obviously). So  
>> far, I like!
>> It's not bug free... I managed to crash it just after installing it  
>> by
>> changing the hostname, but a reboot fixed it. I already submitted a  
>> bug
>> report on that.
>>
>> A few things I've noticed already;
>>
>> - At the command line, when you pipe something through grep, it  
>> highlights
>> the part of the string grep matched on. A small change, but soooo  
>> nice.
>>
>> - The default font size in terminals, and I mean outside of X, is  
>> much
>> smaller. This means that when you do ctrl+alt+f[1-6], you have MUCH  
>> more
>> screen space to work with. This is probably one of my favourite  
>> changes.
>>
>> - Gnome's wallpaper function now supports a set of backgrounds you  
>> can have
>> cycle over time. And not just all the ones you've added, you can  
>> created
>> different sets to use, or use normal static ones.
>>
>> - Input method switching now is done by ctrl+space instead of shift 
>> +space.
>> This is long over due! For example, if I was trying to write a SQL  
>> query, I
>> have a habit of capitalizing command words. I'd often switch to  
>> kana input
>> when I didn't want to. That won't happen any more.
>>
>> - Input method switching now works in KDE apps launched in Gnome! I  
>> often
>> use Kate and, until now, would have to write whatever in gedit or  
>> the shell
>> and then copy/paste it into Kate. This isn't needed any more.
>>
>> - Kate not has predictive text complete pop-ups. So far, I don't  
>> find it
>> gets in the way, and it seems to use some sort of learning because  
>> it brings
>> up chunks of text I've typed before that would be in no dictionary.  
>> I've not
>> made use of this yet, but I think I can see myself using it soon.
>>
>> - They've changed their theme to a darker brown. This is a small  
>> thing, but
>> it is refreshing.
>>
>> - They dropped Pidgin for Empathy as the default IM client. I've  
>> not used it
>> yet though, I just installed pidgin.
>>
>> If you or anyone else is interested, I'll post more as I get more  
>> used to
>> it. In short though:
>>
>> I like!
>>
>> Madi
>
> Great update Madi, ya please keep me informed, maybe do another follow
> up post in 2 weeks when the final release is out, and let us know it
> some of the bugs you found have been plugged.
>
> I stopped using kate for bluefish early on, not sure if I will go back
> to kate with the new changes, but will have a look.
>
Anyone using Quanta (web) or Anjuta (C/C++)? I like Quanta's interface  
but it's a real memory hog/leak in 9.04, Anjuta has served me well but  
if anyone knows of new features or changes I would love to hear on  
them before I next update.


> I use KDE, but wondering what the new xfce is like, have you tired
> taking that for a spin?
>
> I will ping you if you forget.
>
> -- 
> Kind Regards,
> Rajinder Yadav
>
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