[ubuntu-za] KDE 4.1

[James Cuénod]

Thanks, I guess I'll leave it for now...

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:33 PM, JP Viljoen <jp at bitcortex.co.za> wrote:

> On Monday 22 September 2008 11:11:42 James Cuénod wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've got kubuntu installed on my laptop (not the remix - just KDE 3.5.9 -
> > or maybe .8 - I can't remember). I installed KDE4 but it really gets me
> > down... Stuff like the clock in the panel doesn't resize properly
> according
> > to the panel size (so it is really bloated in the panel) and sometimes
> when
> > you resize the panel it disappears when you log in again (which means
> I've
> > got to manually go and remove the resize information from KDE's settings
> > file). Amarok is also mucked up now - after about 3 seconds of playing it
> > starts using both cores at about 100% and all of my 2GB of RAM to play
> 3mb
> > of audio (the whole playlist isn't even 2GB). Amarok is the main thing
> that
> > bugs me because when I log back into KDE3, amarok is "upgraded" so it
> > doesn't work properly anymore. Anyway, I was just wondering whether
> anyone
> > had tried out KDE4.1 and whether it was better (and whether anyone had
> > experienced the same problem with Amarok).
>
> I tried it out, and had many similar experiences. From 4.0 to 4.1 they made
> one helluva large improvement, but
> the end product which is 4.1 is, in my opinion, not near ready for the
> masses, and they should be very sure
> they are able to *speedily* fix these sort of issues as they are all the
> minor niggles which would count up
> to one large irritation which will make a user want to stay far far away
> from it. That said, I really do hope
> they get the stuff right, because I think the technology underpinning
> KDE4.1 has quite a lot of potential in
> what it could be used for.
>
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