Friday, May 15, 2009

2 Applications kubuntu jaunty users should ditch for a better user experience

The ones I am talking about is KPackage kit and networkmanger-palsma-applet. Both are a joke. They are currently under development and is never ready for general usage.

Network Manager Plasma is the worst, It cannot reconnect wireless without re typing password and cannot manage vpn connections and confuses uses by showing vpn options.
KPackage kit can just do the basic stuff, you can click and install and search , thats its nothing more. When downloading it cannot show the details of what it is doing.(Though there is a details tab its disabled) And the history button makes you laugh. It shows the last cache refreshed time.

So users (like me) who are frustrated with these two applications must move to nm-applet(gnome one) and synaptics package manager which in my opinion should be shipped with kubuntu jaunty.

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