Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 17:17:23 nordi wrote:
> Will Stephenson wrote:
> > Implemented in trunk and planned to be backported.  The trunk
> > implementation only has auto-hide, did you use the manual hide buttons?
>
> Only manual hide. A constantly visible taskbar is useful if you are
> jumping between apps a lot (web, mail, OpenOffice...) but it is annoying
> if you spend a lot of time in one program. So I switch visibility
> manually, depending on what I am currently doing.

Ok, thanks for another reasoning I can take upstream.

> > > Unable to assign different backgrounds to virtual desktops to make them
> > > easy to identify;
> >
> > Go vote on https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155150 . Currently KDE
> > 4.2 is a way off feature freeze, so there is still time to get things
> > like this re- added.
>
> Haven't used KDE4 for a while, but now I know what people mean when they
> complain about essential features that are still missing. I guess I'll
> give it another try when 4.2 is out.
>
> > I don't give much weight to the 'extra libraries' argument on a general
> > purpose desktop or laptop though.  On a SSD-based netbook, sure.  However
> > disk space and ram being what they are, the extra cruft (a few tens of
> > Mb) involved in installing KDE 3 and KDE 4 in parallel is no great
> > increase over the bloat we all have from having OpenOffice, Mozilla,
> > Eclipse and maybe a couple of g* apps installed.
>
> Hopefully, the developers of said programs do not think the same. People
> would be rather surprised if Eclipse required both Java 5 and Java 6 to
> run and the devs said "no great increase over the bloat we all have from
> having KDE...".

I'm not speaking as a KDE developer atm but as a distribution developer.  As a 
KDE developer I'd want to devote 100% of my time to making KDE 4 complete and 
shiny, and fulfil the wildly promising footprint improvements some people 
claimed about, but with my pragmatic distro hat on I have to work with what's 
available to both innovate to remain relevant and keep my existing userbase's 
needs fulfilled.  Sometimes a bit of inefficiency/bloat is the cost of that.

Will
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