On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Istvan Gabor
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?
Agreed. Having been a KDE user for 10 years, I can't figure out how to use 1/2 of what's in KDE4. And, most of what they added isn't anything that I need or want in a DE. I recently installed 11,2/KDE4 on my older laptop. And I reverted it back to 11.0/KDE3. I gave up trying to make KDE4 work and look like I expect. At some point I will move away from KDE if it continues to be slower and continues to add more bling and unncessary features. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org