KDE4

[Tyler Aviss]

These are two feelings I shared in regards to KDE4:
* In all there seems to be plenty of potential but I feel like I'm
participating in a beta test and not a production-grade distribution
* The darker panels and menus (a look shared with Vista)

The 3d-accelerated functions (which in OpenGL mode mess up any FMV on
my laptop having an ATI card, but works a bit better in XRender mode)
and the whole widget-docking and dark look seem to make it seem like
KDE is playing as a poor imitation of Vista, and the slew of bugs and
altered/missing functionality definitely has an "unfinished" quality
about it.

Bah. Maybe I'll switch to gnome for awhile.

- TJA

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> Of course, then I tried ubuntu 8.10 with **KDE4... and thus far -
> while it looks "prettier" - the broken functionality over KDE3 tends
> to lead to think that even Linux, at least in terms of the UI, is far
> from faultless in this regard.
>
>
> kde4 just seems broken in many ways.  It's nearly imposible to find
> where to configure things and make it work like it should.  I don't know
> what the kde people were thinking with that.
>
>
> I agree, There are too many things that seem missing, poorly placed, or
> changed for the sake of change.
> The new file browser (dolphin) is a bug step up in usability over KDE3 but
> they haven't yet enabled video thumbnails.
>
> Firefox and Thunderbird specifically seem less stable since I upgraded, with
> the former crashing about once daily at random spots.
> I used to be able to right-click on an archive file and have it extract to a
> subdirectory; that's gone now.
> I find the new default window look-and-feels jarring and will probably look
> to re-install some Crystal themes.
> The darker panels and menus (a look shared with Vista) make it look more
> like a gamerz environment than a home or business system.
> And I guess I just can't think enough out of the box yet to appreciate the
> KDE newfound obsession with floating widgets (even though there really
> aren't very many to choose from)
>
> In all there seems to be plenty of potential but I feel like I'm
> participating in a beta test and not a production-grade distribution. KDE
> 4.2 is supposed to fix a zillion little things (as I was told 4.1 did before
> that) and I'm cautiously optimistic that it might be ready for public
> consumption at that point. But not yet.
>
> ** Has anyone else tried KDE4? I'd love to swap notes and try to sort out
> the big annoyance it's become.
>
>
> Sure, but I don't know how much help I'll be. I'm encountering more
> annoyances than I'm solving....
>
> - Evan
>
>



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