I’ve been playing with Ubuntu Edgy for several weeks, but on test machines and the laptop that I use to browse the Web while watching DVDs — not on my main desktop.
Yesterday, I took the plunge. I decided to go for a clean install this time ’round rather than doing a dist-upgrade to Edgy. I didn’t have many problems with dist-upgrading from Breezy to Dapper, but I wanted to repartition the drive anyway (I’d been wasting way too much space on the / partition, and kept running low on space on the /home partition…).
It took longer to copy my data to the external USB drive and make a DVD backup of my crucial data (mail, writing, etc.) than it did to actually install Ubuntu. The Edgy install took very little time at all.
I’m finding a few little KDE bugs here and there (there’s no way to resize an external taskbar now, setting the preference for Titlebar wheel event has no effect, and a few other minor glitches) but I’m not sure if those are issues with Edgy or issues with KDE 3.5.5 itself.
I’m also not terribly fond of the move to installing “vim-tiny” by default instead of full-fledged Vim, but I’ve already installed the full Vim package, so no biggie there.
Still busy re-installing all the packages I use regularly that aren’t part of the default install, or Ubuntu at all. Also contemplating a move from Sylpheed to another mailer, since it’s been a year since I moved to Sylpheed from Thunderbird and I am itching to try something new. I may wait until Thunderbird 2.0 is released, though…
Aha, I found a way of resizing the external taskbar… start kcontrol, and find your way to Desktop -> Panel… then in the first two tabs you can select which bar the settings apply to – change from main taskbar to external taskbar and away you go.
This had me stumped for a while and I eventually found the answer on some Mandriva forum that had been posted about 4 years ago.