On Monday 11 of August 2014 22:08:52 Peter Laws wrote: > Got a new workstation. �Wrong video card. �The vendor -- rhymes with Bell > -- was happy to send me a 2-port card and 3 displays when I ordered a card > that had 3 ports (because, hello, three displays). > > No problem, purchasing person, just have them send me the new card and I'll > send the old one back. �Nope, no can do, user guy. �Send the whole system > back. > > Three weeks later ... > > I decide I want the latest Kubuntu. �I see that there is no TDE for 14.04 > so I think "OK, surely they've made KDE 4 usable by now given that it's > been how many years?" > > Um, no. �Panels won't extend across multiple screens - have to have one for > each. �Do those stay on the screens where you put them? �No they don't. > Surely this is something new. �No, it is not - googling around tells me > that it's at least 5 years old *and* the plasma idiots say that this won't > be fixed because it isn't a problem. > > Even *Konsole* is farked up. �What a mess. > > > So here I am ... begging for 14.04 support in TDE because I really don't > have the time to spend reinstalling *again* (I skipped over the Fedora 20 > and CentOS 6 chapters of the story). �This is a work system, where I do > work, not a play system where I play. �That is a distinction lost on the > plasma/KDE 4 idiots. > > Help? For Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) you can use the development version of TDE R14. You have two options: 1) Official nightly-builds: deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-build-dependencies/ubuntu trusty main deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-builds/ubuntu trusty main 2) Alternative preliminary-stable-builds: deb http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb trusty deps-r14 main-r14 -- Slavek