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+[[!meta title="Ubuntu Karmic upgrade issues"]]
+[[!meta date="2010-01-17"]]
+[[!meta author="rohieb"]]
+[[!meta license="CC-BY-SA 3.0"]]
+
+Thinking of the phrase “never change a running system” I am usually not
+very keen on updating my Ubuntu system to a new distribution. However,
+not every new software version is available from the backports, so
+finally, I saw myself forced to upgrade to Karmic Koala.
+
+I instantly regretted it. Of course, I appreciate all the new software,
+but as in every upgrade I ever made (and I probably should know by now
+-.-), there are a few things that were annoying me or are still doing
+it:
+
+* kaffeine-1.0~pre is not even as useful as 0.8.7 from jaunty: While
+  staying in touch with the main KDE (4) line, the developers seemed to
+  completely remove the Playback -> Video menu, so it is not possible
+  anymore to toggle deinterlacing, or any other video filter, which is
+  very annoying for DVB-T.  I filed a [bug report][1] on that.
+  Futhermore, my DVB-T channels were lost, so I had to rescan them.
+
+* The notifications displayed by notify-osd somehow have wandered from
+  the upper right edge towards the middle right. This seems to be fixed
+  now, as pointed out in the [bug report][2], but somehow this fix never
+  got onto my system, though the changelog of notify-osd says so…
+  Additionally, the notifications for received messages in Pidgin do not
+  hide anymore if I actually read the messages, they persist until their
+  default timeout has elapsed. And they even show up now when my IM
+  status is on “Do not Disturb” – this was not the case (just as I
+  expected it) in jaunty.
+
+* Icons in GTK menus are now hidden by default, which seemed very
+  unfamiliar to me, since I always used them as an orientation guide,
+  especcially in the Firefox search plugin menu. You can show them again
+  in the System -> Preferences -> Appearance applet on the Interface tab
+  by selecting “Show icons in menus”.
+
+* GDM is no longer custumizable through themes. It just doesn’t support
+  it, as it seems to be a [complete rewrite][3]. IMHO just another
+  Unmature Software Thing.
+  
+  **Edit:** I just found out that it is also not able to start GDM in
+  Xnest, as I usually did for testing:
+
+      $ gdmflexiserver --xnest
+      ** (gdmflexiserver:5916): WARNING **: Not yet implemented
+
+* And finally, my customized GNOME window theme (based on Clearlooks)
+  was broken :-( I am very confident that the color of selected text was
+  not the same color in the title bar, but now both seem to be the same
+  color. This is really bad, as for the title bar, I used to have a
+  darker shade of orange than for selected text. OK, changing to another
+  theme may be simple, but until now, I haven’t found anything I like
+  best.
+
+[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kaffeine/+bug/499938
+[2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/419894
+[3]: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7854130
+
+[[!tag Ubuntu fix rant Ubuntu Ubuntu_Jaunty Ubuntu_Karmic upgrade]]