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Re: couple of gripes
by Michael on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @16:57

I installed edgy at home yesterday. At my office I've still been waiting until things have settled down. I noticed the point #2 you mention just now because I didnt try to open anything before. Ugh!!! What a mess. This spoils my otherwise really great impression of Edgy totally. All my folders have gone. This sucks a lot. I cant even access my /mount folders if I enter them manually. This should really be configurable immediately from the open dialog. This is even worse than Windows where I can still click to show i.e. the Program Files folder. What the hell did they think they are doing - if anything at all? I sincerely hope this gets better again in future versions, otherwise I will keep out looking again for a different distro if they continue GNOMEifying KDE.

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Re: couple of gripes
by Michael on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @17:02

PS: I just found out how to solve this. Edgy created a ".hidden" file in "/" (root folder). You can remove it in order to show all folders again. Anyway - it's absolutely inexcusable that they didnt warn explicitly before downloading that I wont be able to open files properly if I dont remove the file. If I had upgraded my office machine I could not have used it for work before solving this. This sucks really a lot!

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Re: couple of gripes
by Simon Edwards on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @22:59

> This is even worse than Windows where I can still click to show i.e. the Program Files folder.

From Konq or the file dialog use the "Show hidden files" menu item and they are there. Typing in the first part of the path also works fine too.

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Simon

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Re: couple of gripes
by Michael on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @23:51

Not in Konq. I'm talking of the file open dialog. Doesnt work here. I can enter i.e "/mnt" or "/" and press enter in the drop-down list at the top. No folders appear.

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Re: couple of gripes
by Jucato on Friday 27/Oct/2006, @03:46

You can right-click in the dialog box, select View -> Show hidden files or press F8.

True, there should have been more information about this. Even the release notes are silent about this new feature. This would probably be the biggest source of complaints.

... I'm still waiting for that wiki page.

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Re: couple of gripes
by borker on Friday 27/Oct/2006, @06:54

There is this page: <a href='https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KubuntuKDEMedia#preview'>wiki</a> (you can see my comments from a few days before the release at the bottom tagged with ---borker)

I also filed a bug about 2 weeks ago but it was closed pretty much straight away with no action taken.

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