Kubuntu Natty Narwhal review - KDElicious!

1) In Vbox, when I use synaptic instead of Kpackage kit to install something, I invariably get
the message that none of the packages are from authenticated sources, "Not Authenticated".
Is this because they are all from ubuntu/canonical servers or why ?

2) Would anyone care to explain 'Activities' in Kubuntu ? I can't seem to see how they will benefit me and in any case don't understand the workings properly -
whatever I do seems to muck up things eg. cloning a desktop, and then I don't know how to delete the damn activity.

 

you can delete them my clicking on stop button then clicking on X(close red icon ) and remove

 

remove

by the way to open it you need to right click on desktop and click on activity to see what desktop are running you can stop all of them expect the one you running give you huge performance boost

 

Hm - in my Kubuntu system Synaptic has always worked flawlessly. However, there is a bug report which might give you some hints what might be wrong.

Sorry, I've never used that feature

 

Thanks for feedback mack_guy and tlu. I wil look into activities and non authenticated updates again. Probably won't make use of the activities feature.

 

activities feature is great you can make many different style and look of desktop and stop them you just need to switch to another type when you need

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7671

also you can set different desktop screen to different activity

http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma#Activities


see these all the created on activities so all i need to switch

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=232753&page=23

 

I don't use them myself, or rather, only one. For now anyway.

I think it would be useful if say, your computer is used at work and at home. You'd create one activity for each activity (!), and organize the desktop to suit each one.

 

Just out of curiosity, Ocky: Have you solved your Synaptic problem?

 

Thank you. No more problems, I installed several packages today and, without having to
sort anything out, all installed sans the 'not authenticated' warning.