Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2113 mails)

["alpha096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <alpha096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to satisfy me own feeling of huge disappointment in the new KDE4
Plasma Desktop in OpenSuse 11.0 I would like some feedback just to check
my own sanity.
If there is a very clear outcome of this survey one way or another we
might just get KDE to look at this.
To maintain sanitary if you work for either Novell.DE or Suse.DE or KDE
or Gnome please do not participate

At first glance I love the Desktop, however functionally its a huge
disappointment with a massive amount of past functionality missing or
changed for the worst.

Could other please let me know what functionality you find missing and
what new functionality is disappointing and what are the good points

For example
If you do not agree with anything on the negative list please add this
to the positive list
If you also agree with anything on either list please duplicate the same
text line

The Negative list

0. The ability to have different images per desktop.
1. The options available to panels is limiting and very poor and icons
are no longer treated as objects
2. The New Personal settings I find very poor and I feel the old
Kcontrol Module far more logical in its layout.
3. The layout of the Personal settings interface changes depending on
different applications that is installed and it appears there is NO
default layout
4. The search option in Personal Settings only searches for the exact
search string - there is no indexing that is in the form of variances in
the entire string.
5. The total concept of Winglets is confusing, disappointing and
functionally a huge mess.
6. There is no way to escalate a users authority to root in items in
Personal Settings that require root access.

The Positive List
0. The look and feel of the Desktop, the new Icon sets etc..

I am also interested to know if you jump to the command prompt to
change/start Network services or do you use the Interface in Yast.

0. I always use the GUI Interface
1.