KDE4 RC2 observations

[Michael W. Holdeman]

Observations on the kde4 rc2 for kubuntu

I removed my kde4 rc1 installed files, then installed according to the web 
page.

Upon loging in I was immediately impressed with the advancements, the "kicker" 
replacement is polished and looks good. 
The widgets now are moveable, and the pager one now works as expected. Battery 
still shows no battery on my Dell D820?
Most apps in the menu now started and worked fine, except anything requiring 
su privilege, still does not accept the password. I had to open a konsole and 
run them with kdesu.
klipper now is docked where you would expect, and works as such.
So far so good.

I then decided to install more apps with adept using -kde4 as the filter. I 
installed all except the stuff I knew I did not want like strigi, kppp, kget 
etc...
All installed and a played around a bit. 
Korganizer was still messing up on my old ical files, but better than before.
Kmail good
koffice2 seemed good. 
Not sure the process of the menu and how the system adds apps, seems like 
there were a lot of apps there, old, new etc... etc...

OK tried then to log back into kde-3.5.8 and errored on trash:/ and system:/.
Kwin waas messed up, leaving all closed windows on the screen. Konqueror was 
hosed. Several apps were just plain hosed and seemed to have been replaced by 
kde4 apps?

I went to my rsnapshot dir and copyed the .kde from there into my .kde and all 
was good again.uninstalled all -kde4 apps, along with the apps that the web 
page said to install. 
Then had to reinstall konqueror, kontact, kmail, kubuntu-desktop and a few 
other's.

Don't know if this is intended or not, but this as difficult to repair. Thank 
God for my rsnapshot setup!

Any other expeirences?

(Oh yea, google-desktop does not work with kde4)

Mike