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Yeah... it never bothered me too much since windows go over the top but it would be nice. I haven't tried any of these but maybe something in here will help?

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php/67477-Hide-plasma-toolbox-cashew

But then what you seem to forget is from new computers the BIOS has all but disappeared and has been replaced by something called UEFI.
You should update your knowledge starting by something like this:

Just Google who is Steve Riley and you'll be a little smarter.

I turned 57 this week. Probably why I am having trouble with my Gentoo install.

Probably, but Gentoo is a tough install. You could start here and follow the process. Or, you could download a Kubuntu LiveCD iso, burn it carefully, boot it, click through the timezone, keyboard type, enter your name and password, and click "install". Twenty minutes to an hour later, depending on what distro you choose, you reboot into your new desktop. Help is here.

I turned 69 a month ago and I am having NO trouble with Kubuntu 10.4 running KDE 4.5.1. I prefer KDE because it is more like the Windows environment I used at work for the last decade, except that Kubuntu doesn't get infected or slow down under a greater load.

When I try to do it here, it creates a new list with a new name (the current date and time)

I can only presume that Kubuntu uses a much modified version of Amarok - I don't even know if it uses the same mysql backend as Debian. I can understand your frustation with the Kubuntu forum. Web page in squintovision(tm), many of the posters badly post their problem description - then re-post shortly afterwards to say that they will use something else... Posts with problems appear in "Help the new guy" and "Software support" which doesn't help locating an answer to a problem.

When

it creates a new list with a new name

can you change the name to the original playlist name? I did find one useful link there (though I only searched for about 10 minutes).

No I'm truly lost... From left to right on the default Amarok menubar: Amarok, View, Playlist, Tools, Setting, Help.(letter in bold is the hotkey)

I only have Amarok, Playlist, Tools, Settings, Help. No View :-(

Correction: I meant "Now I'm truly lost

Tried that already. Most of the time I get "this is the wrong place for reporting 'pet peeve' type bugs.

How sad/pathetic (of them). I tried searching for "pet peeves" flamebait - those posts must of been deleted - perhaps if I check cached copies...

We have no choice, they dropped support for KDE 3 upstream, so we had to go along and have no choice in this"

Another lame (Kubuntu) response... It's fairly simple to replace Amarok2 with Amarok. Kubuntu is repackaged Ubuntu - I've recently replaced Amarok2 with Amarok on a clients Ubuntu laptop.

I'm not sure how I can assist you further. I don't use Kubuntu (or Ubuntu). As a business I don't support Kubuntu either (we are currently debating dropping support for Ubuntu) 'cause supporting SLAs for unstable is like nailing snot to the wall.

This link gives the developers reasons for Amarok2 (an restates the "we warned you KDE4 wasn't for production" line).

As a final suggestion - have you tried juk, minirok, kaffeine or songbird? Cheers

Kubuntu

• Rock solid KDE 3
• Commercial support provided by Canonical for a term of 18 months
• Release available through ShipIt for everybody as well as downloading

Kubuntu KDE 4 Remix

• Cutting edge KDE 4.0
• Support provided by the Kubuntu community via Ubuntu Forums, Kubuntu Forums, IRC, and the Kubuntu Users Mailing List.
• Release available through CDs for groups who need it (ie. LoCo teams, conference teams, etc.) as well as downloading

Where can I get a well supported full featured distro that doesn't remove 90% of the features from programs like XMMS, Mplayer and ffmpeg? (MP3 support, WMA support, DVD playback, RealAudio support etc etc)

Gnome people, this is not the time to freak out. Just because Mark is using KDE as his desktop and he wants to put more resources into KDE doesn't mean that the Gnome side of Ubuntu is going to suffer. There could be many reasons for his new found interest in Kubuntu.

1.From the beginning it seems that Mark felt a little guilty that he had to pick one desktop to really do well. I know a lot of people think "just do one thing and do it well" is an admirable philosophy, but in the GNU world that is the path to weakness. The Linux Desktop is chaos and unless you want to spend enough to harness that chaos you HAVE to make some big decisions like that. When he first started with Ubuntu, he had no idea how successful it was going to be. He had not idea if the whole thing would be a waste of money, or that no one would care. But now that Ubuntu is making a huge splash in the Linux world and is making noise across the globe Mark has decided that he is willing to commit more of his resources to the entire Ubuntu project. He set up the Ubuntu foundation and gave it $10 million to begin with. So a new commitment to KDE and Kubuntu DOES NOT MEAN THAT UBUNTU WILL HAVE LESS, just that probably he will be willing to give more overall to help the KDE side as well.

2.Despite its relative popularity, the Kubuntu side of the project has not had nearly the resources the other side has gotten so far. The Kubuntu maintainer- Jonathan Riddell - did a lot of the work in its free time. At first he was only given a smallish contract at the end of releases to help get them in better shape. I bet that if Mark is serious about Kubuntu it will finally have a full time developer (if that is not already the case).

3.A big goal of the entire Ubuntu project for Mark is his Edubuntu side project. Well in all honesty Kubuntu might be a better fit for that project than Ubuntu for a few reasons: the The KDE Edutainment Project is the single best educational software on the GNU desktop and is far more developed than anything on the Gnome side. Plus KDE uses less RAM (this is my own opinion) so it might be a better fit for the older computers that many schools might have today. Gnome hates to have less than 256mb, and you can't build a user friendly desktop around XFCE (and it would probably take less resources to make Kubuntu better than to fix all of Gnome's RAM problems single handily). So a better KDE is better for the Kubuntu project.

4.The entire Ubuntu community has been trying better to make the KDE side seem like an equal ever since it was announced. On the Official Forums we have separated KDE and Gnome areas for the Breezy release, and beyond that a forum independent forum was made by a third party for Kubuntu. So in some ways Mark is just catching up to the rest of the community.

The last thing any Gnome fan and Ubuntu user needs to think is that "the sky is falling." This is a GOOD thing for you Gnome fans. Why? A better Kubuntu will bring more people to the distro and that could help build the overall community. A better Kubuntu will help establish the entire project as THE Desktop Linux which would help with gaining support of third party application makers that won't release for anything not called Red Hat. A better Kubuntu shows that Mark is becoming even more devoted to the project, and considering the man makes more off of investments than the entire Linux service industry more of his support means that the entire project is is better shape. Finally, a better Kubuntu means that there is more choice in the community and that the entire project is maturing. Its a good time to be a Desktop Linux user.