Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1840 mails)

[Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@xxxxxxx>]

OFF:

> I have made mistake to install new 11.2 to all the user PCs in my 
> company and now everybody is crying to get them back KDE3, because KDE4 
> is so much slower (all desktop effects turned off, newest NVIDIA 
> drivers, dual core CPUs with 2GB+ RAM), and much more complicated, and 
> has all those unneeded stuff (like plasma - I still cannot find what is 
> it good for), and does not have some tihings that were good in KDE3 
> (like little "hide taskbar" icons on the left/right).

Hello:

I am happy to learn that I am not the only one who is very unsatisfied with 
KDE4.
I also have to confirm that KDE4 is really much slower than KDE3. I have tried 
it several times on openSUSE 11.1 but would not use it for everyday use; sorry 
I have to correct myself, I would not use it for anything but testing. I even 
don't know why is it called KDE. It should look alike or resemble at least in 
something to conventional KDE, but is does not. I would rather call it a dulled 
gnome ("DGNOME from the KDE team"). It may sound disrespectful but during my 
more than then years linux experience I never met anything so unattractive as 
KDE4. Functionality and usability is very far from those of KDE3.
Once I raised at this forum the issue of the abovementioned hide taskbar 
buttons  but Sven Burnmeister has told me off and said that if it would be 
really wanted it had been already included. He also said that KDE3 is past but 
KDE4 IS FUTURE. And - maybe the most important point - if KDE4 is KDE why one 
has to learn to use it from scratch? The experience from KDE2, KDE3 doesn't 
lead you anywhere in KDE4. What does it has to do with KDE at all then?

Cheers,
Istvan

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