KDE 4.1 personal opinion

[Glenn R Williams]

I agree with most of what you say. I had a horrible experience with 4.0 on 
Hardy. KDE 4.1 is remarkably better. Sound settings are still lagging, and 
configuration options are often not there. I seems like a curious way to 
develop, but that might be the result of distributed development. Developers 
also tend to gravitate toward the flashy apps.

On the whole, though, I have found KDE 4.1 very stable and useful (especially 
now that we have kdepim!).

Glenn

On Wednesday 27 August 2008 14:57:36 Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> since the release of intrepid is not _THAT_ far, and i'm going to do a
> fresh install when it's out (i think upgrading is probably going to be a
> pain in **there**, specially since it's going to change KDE3 to KDE4), i
> decided to install KDE 4.1, and try it out for a couple of months.
> i'm actually impressed with how beautiful, and much more stable it is
> than my horrible experience with KDE 4.0 back in gutsy.
> but still, there is a lot of features missing, some parts actually exist
> but not used! mainly the get stuff from internet buttons, like the
> install new widget, and others.
> i'm surprised why paste in a file browser doesn't work when there is
> text in clipboard, it used to pop a box asking for a filename to put the
> text in, and i use this feature quite a lot.
> plasmoids are pretty, but their real beauty starts when there is dozens
> maybe hundred plasmoids to choose from, with all sorts of stuff running
> in them.
> i caouldn't help but notice, how when running gtk applications (and tk
> apps like aMSN) the taskbar (called task manager now?) starts losing
> color, shaky, appearing and disappearing at random, when all gtk windows
> are minimized, it becomes normal again (see attachment), i have the gtk
> to qt package for KDE4 and use qtcurve as the style for gtk apps.
> keyboard extra buttons! they're not working, even print screen. volume
> uo/down, mute, play/pause, scroll lock (weird, huh?), the other keys
> were already not working in KDE 3.5.9 (windows based keys), like email,
> internet,search, my computer, etc...
> the effects are awesome, and never crashed for me, unlike compiz that
> gave me hell on both gutsy and hardy. but i think there should be some
> shortcut to disable effects and enable them all in one click. having
> effects on, reduces game speeds a lot, and the creen would be a bit
> fuzzy, i go to desktop settings, and disable effects, and then renable
> them when done playing.
> system settings lacks a few stuff, like disks and filesystems, and the
> sound settings is absolute rubbish, i didnt find anything useful in it,
> not even a test button!
> that's all i can think of for now,
> would love to hear what other fellow users think of KDE 4.1 :-)

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Glenn R Williams
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