Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx>]

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). 

I prefer KDE (for now) and have loved it for a long time. But i'm afraid that 
KDE 4.1.2 isn't even ready for my daily use of production. On my secondary 
system it has crashed about 5 times for me doing silly tasks (changed a 
plasmoid, adding a plasmoid etc). 

When I add a new panel, and add a new plasmoid to it, why isn't it just 
activated on the sizie of the icon? I can click anywhere in the whole panel 
for the "Lancealot Menu" to come down. Shouldn't only clicking on the icon 
activate it? 

The System Tray and most other things on the panels (if shrunk) are not 
desirable. They don't scale down as they should. 

I was bored today and decided to start changing my desktop theme. On the 3rd 
one I tried, the whole screen just stayed black. I had to kill my KDE session 
and go back in so I could see stuff. 

When I have updates going the tooltip with the updates makes other portions of 
my screen flicker. 

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 hope by the time openSUSE 11.2 comes out (and the death of KDE 3 in 
openSUSE) that KDE 4 will be ready for the prime time, or i'm sad to say 
it'll be a move to gnome for me. 

Ok.. that was pointless.. but I feel better anyways. 
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