On Tuesday 21 July 2009 11:02:03 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
So far, I have been happy with my decision to "Install" kde 4.3 beta from factory and "Keep" my kde 3.5 install. However, having both kde3 and kde4 installed is mandatory.
There are so many things you simply cannot do in kde4 that you have to log back in to kde3 to complete. [footnote 1] After 3 months of testing virtually everything I can think of, all I can say is kde4 is usable, but there is so much stuff broken or missing in this desktop it will blow your mind. Simple little things that are just annoying as heck, like "if you want to set a different default WM in kde control center (like compiz),
You mean what you can do in System Settings > Default Applications > Window Manager? Maybe you haven't tested kde4 that thoroughly these past three months...
you want a screenshot of your desktop say with the compiz expo plugin -- you can't, Hmm what d'you know, ksnapshot works fine. Compiz isn't part of kde4 - I use kwin, or I'd switch to compiz to test this out as well.
you want to insert kate snippets that have escape codes in it, now they hose the editor window because the escape codes are applied to the editor window instead of simply inserted at text, I use kwrite, but I installed kate just to test this. Worked perfectly fine.
you want to browse and 'preview in' and be returned to the same file, Just fired up konqueror, previewed and returned to the same folder with no problems.
you want to use an app that relies on fish, I don't use fish, so can't really test.
you want to edit the "Classic Menu" and not go into a loop, Yeah... this hasn't been broken for a very long time and I've had pretty much everything that came into the kde4 factory repo installed at one point or another
and on and on and on ...." (all things that should not have been broken to begin with)
If you want to work without distraction -- stay with kde3. If you want to see the new glitz and glamor, but spend equal time working and writing bug reports, jump to kde4. If you want to "try" the latest, just "install" it along side your kde3 install, but I would recommend against wiping out your kde3 install by "upgrading" to kde4.
Sounds like your problem is with your setup, not with the desktop environment. Nkoli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org