Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2243 mails)

[Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Your answer confirms what I thought: basic functions don't work in kde4. 
> > For me panel hiding option is a must have, as well as functional old style 
> > menu. I think the problem is not kde4 itself, but that openSUSE 
> > incorporates it while it is still in an unpolished, less functional 
> > development state.
>
> Ummm.. panel hiding works fine here for me.
>
> A VERY important question... have you updated to KDE4.2? or are you
> still typing to use 4.1 as released on the DVDs?
>
> C.

Do your mean that your have panel hiding buttons at the edges of the panel?
Or you mean automatic panel hiding?
I still have kde from the official openSUSE 11.1 DVD.
But consider, this is the 'official' stable release that is supposed to operate 
flawlessly.
Frankly I think this is the most unstable and worst suse release regarding the 
desktop I've met so far.

I found kde4 packages only in factory and unstable repos.
It was never necessary before to update anything from an unstable or factory 
repo to work 
fine. I am reluctant to do it and if I did probably I would face many other 
bugs.

I also found that kde4 panel is very unstable. It just rearranges the plaaement 
of the icons on it between logins even if I do not touch them. If I try to 
place the icons myself it becomes a complete mess. Practically it is unusable.
I too do not understand why my start menu icon became a blue colored left arrow 
instead of the gecko icon. Creating a new user results in a gecko start menu 
icon. I have removed everything from my home folder, all the files and 
directories including hidden files and directories (logging from the console 
window, not in kde). After logging in every desktop element was recreated from 
scratch except the start menu icon which remained the blue arrow. I can't 
understand it. 

All in all I do not understand, really, why suse had to put kde4 as the core 
kde system instead of kde3 which is mature, stable and polished and also looks 
beautiful.
The look of suse's default kde4 is just simply ugly.

Istvan














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