I am running 3.0 Lite through VirtualBox which is installed within my Ultimate Edition 2.9 64bit environment.
If I Logout and try to Logon to any other desktop environments, I can only Logon to those based on Lubuntu.
Openbox, Gnome and KDE won't open. I can't get past the Logon with KDE and Gnome and Openbox goes to a grey screen and does nothing more.
What might be the problem here?
I wanted to see how KDE might behave in 3.0 Lite but, it looks like I will have to wonder a bit longer.
I also have Ultimate Edition 2.9 running through VirtualBox as a test bed for the odd thing in case anything screws up. I can Logout here and back into the KDE environment (albeit a bit slow due to lack or RAM, 2Gb allocated though...).
I had a quick look at setting the apperance to my taste but, stopped as soon as I remembered how bloody awful the 'Settings Manager' applet looks. It remonds me of the old Windows, PCTools envirnment windows from the eighties and eraly nineties - how ugly they look now.
With KDE looking so pretty otherwise how on Earth can someone build a Distro with such awful looking applet windows.
I promptly shutdown KDE once again. I look at it now and then just to see how it behaves as usually something goes wrong with my graphics when ever I try to run KDE for any real length of time and I have to return to the Gnome desktop.
I don't mind Gnome, I have it configured to what I like to look at when working and it is very functional. KDE though, has some nice looking little touches that I can't quite put my finger upon. Maybe it is the fonts, I'm not sure but, it just looks fractionally nicer the way buttons and so on are laid out along with very delicate borders to the windows which still allow a good edge for the pointer to pick up. I dislike the width I have to set my window borders to in Gnome with Emerald. If I set the border frame width to a really thin frame then the pointer has difficulty picking up the window edge and becomes very frustrating.
Something needs to be done about this to bring it to perfection so that really thin frames can be picked up by the pointer just as easily as normal or wide borders. This will allow really cool window designs without compromizing functionality - yes?
Anyways, I'm rabbiting on here, sorry, must be my age...
Should I be able to Logon to the KDE environment in 3.0 Lite - that is my question.
Ta...