Siggraph 2009 in New Orleans

In the first 10 days of the August, I'll be in New Orleans to attend Siggraph 2009... I'm very excited because it is my first Siggraph...

Switched from Gnome to KDE

Yesterday I switched from Gnome to KDE, now Maya works much much much better, even with composite is on (under KDE, opening the hotbox while composite is on doesn't lock the interface as it does in Gnome, I've red that there is a dead lock issue between Maya and Gnome when composite is on), no sticky keyboard bug under Maya any more and I can adjust the Maya panels so the editors like Attribute editor Hypershade stays on top of the main Maya window until I click to the title bar of the main window... so its cool, its fun again to use Maya under Linux...

Here is the pros of switching to KDE:

• Maya works flawlessly
  
• Using hotbox doesn't hang the whole desktop process
  
• Window manager could be adjusted to make the Maya Panels behave as expected

Here is the cons ( for me at least ):

• A more candy look compared to Gnome ( which may others like )
• Need to get used to the different tools like kate instade of gedit, konsole instead of the regular terminal etc.
• KDE and Gnome tools lays side by side if you just install KDE to Ubuntu ( which again may doesn't disturb other people )
• Finding a tool under the application launcher is more difficult compared to Gnome ( which may I later will get used to )
  

After installing KDE under Ubuntu, I decided to install a fresh version of Kubuntu, to have the default tools those come with KDE version of Ubuntu (Kubuntu again), this was a very very unnecessary decision, because in Linux world having a fresh install could be get by just using the lovely packet manager and removing the unwanted programs/components/tools...

I wanted to get rid of the extra gnome tools. But now I need to configure all the things from scratch again. I've lost the sound in my laptop (HDX-1080) again, I need to compile 2.6.30 version of the kernel, I think this time I'll wait for the ubuntu version of the kernel to update. I need to install a lot of the programs again, like JEdit, WingIDE, KDevelop etc...

Hopefully, Maya installed very quickly, with the help of this site...

So for now, if nothing bad will happen I suggest to use KDE with Maya...