Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (174 mails)

[Dirk Müller <dmueller@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> The panel is awkward to say the least, organising icons to launch programs
> is possible, but so cumbersome compared to KDE 3.

This was an attempt to solve the raised issue where many people complained 
that it was too easy to reorganize your panel accidentally with KDE 3.

> the whole thing is
> sloooow (probably eating CPU power for useless eye candy).

It could be made faster, and some of the slowness depends on the individual 
graphics card being used. KDE 4 relies a lot more on good hardware 
acceleration of graphics than any version before.  

> Apparently, the devs have *decided* that the *only* way to use a desktop is
> by having some sort of automount. Every time you insert a CD/DVD you get a
> menu poping from the panel (greetings from Windows Vista!), to mount it
> (yes, I added a line in fstab to mount it where I want) I have either to
> use this popup or Dolphin.

What do you want to use? how do you want to mount?

> I have been told Dolphin is better than Konqueror - I fail to see where.
> Anyway, to mount (or unmount) a DVD you have to use "Places" - as I hide
> this, it means more clicks to get it done.

you can also use the device notifier popup in the panel to unmount

> If you create links to other partitions, they work... but they have names
> with the .desktop extention all over your desktop.

?

could you explain what you did here in a little bit more detail, please?


Greetings,
Dirk
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