Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

[Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clayton wrote:
> > >  Once they get it so I can make it work and look
> > > like KDE3 and it's faster, then I will re-evaluate it.
> > >       
> > They won't. You will be able to do the same things, but it won't look
> > the same.
> >     
>
> This might be the key to why some people are having such major issues.
>  They insist on spending huge amounts of time and energy trying to
> make KDE4 look like KDE3.  You can do the same thing with KDE4 as you
> could with KDE3, but in the KDE4 way... not the KDE3 way (whether
> that's good or bad is not the point I'm trying ot make here).  In most
> aspects the two are actually quite similar if you stop fighting
> against it.  Yes there are differences, and yes some bits function
> totally different... and in some places it's still quite broken or
> missing features... but that's what bug reports are for and that's
> what Dotan is working hard on here.
>
> If you look through the bugs Dotan has raised on the KDE.org
> Bugzilla... a LOT of them have been worked on... seriously... a lot
> have been resolved.... things like being able to toggle off desktop
> switching with the scroll wheel... and so on.  It _is_ worth the
> effort to go in there and vote/comment on the bug reports.  The result
> is that where KDE4 is seriously lacking (and there is no question here
> that KDE has been and still is seriously lacking in many areas) is
> being worked on, and it is getting better.  KDE4.4 has no comparison
> to what came before it in terms of usability.  It's really improving,
> and fast.
>
> Take the missing metadata thing.  The fact it's currently missing does
> not mean that this is the end of discussion.  It's simply *not there
> yet*.  If you need that feature.. comment on the bug report, vote for
> it.  The same applies to all those other missing things we want or
> need... like different wallpaper per desktop without needing to futz
> with Activities.
>
> The screen hotspots is a setting.. easy to switch off, and something I
> also turn off - although I've kept it on my netbook since there...
> it's actually quite useful.
>
> C.
>   
+1 

And thanks....  You saved me a lot of typing.  :-)

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