On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 08:08:57 Ben Kevan wrote:
For the last week i've used KDE 4.1.x on a secondary system I have at work. I have used this machine daily for many tasks (production work, as I used it as a secondary production machine, to work on and come back to this one when dead). [...snip...]
The System Tray and most other things on the panels (if shrunk) are not desirable. They don't scale down as they should.
I have found that resizing the panel to the size I want, then logging out and restarting KDE fixes the scaling problem. I agree that this workaround should not be necessary but it seems that we are, after all, dealing with beta software here at best. It's just a shame that the developers can't admit it and label it as such...
[...] I know I know.. this is just another KDE 4 rant, but I've been really trying to make the switch ( I was planning on going all KDE 4.1.2 when 11.1 came out), but it doesn't seem like I'll be able to. I don't have enough faith in the plasma environment (KDE Applications run great, they are quick, and most everything else is fine), it's just the very lacking panels and the buggy plasma portion that is killin me.
I know what you mean. Nevertheless, I've now installed 4.1.2 on 3 machines (1 on a new install of 11.0 and 2 on 10.3 and with the latest release it really is pretty stable. Hopefully by 4.2 we'll have most if not all of the functionality of 3.5.7 back again. Someone I was speaking to at work commented that the issues with the changeover from KDE3 to KDE4 sound pretty much the same as what happened between KDE2 and KDE3 (which is why he switched to Gnome and never looked back). Seems that they just have a different development philosophy that what lot of their users would like them to have. That's life.
[...] Ok.. that was pointless.. but I feel better anyways.
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