On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:52:23 Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Oh boy! am I lost! I guess I have to be added to the class of users who have failed to grok the new KDE4 user interface.. Sigh.. Just installed SuSE11.2 with Version 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1) "release 6" (well Hump! just discovered yet another non obvious feature - to copy/paste that from the About KDE dialog I had to go into the Klipper and "Enable Clipboard Actions". Sigh, but that is not what I am writing about...)
Marc, Step 1 - upgrade to at least version 4.3.5 (in the KDE4 Stable repository) or 4.4 (in KDE4 Factory). For now I'd stick with Stable (4.3.5). There is broken stuff in 4.3.1 that is fixed in 4.3.5. You'll be much saner if you upgrade now rather then when you finally get it all configured... As to the rest of it, too many questions to answer in just one post (especially as I'm already supposed to be at work ;-) ). Stick with it, though. Yes, it is quite different from 3.5.x but despite the naysayers, it is a highly functional and very usable desktop. For comparison, I had need to use a Max desktop running OSX 10.4 (I think) on the weekend and KDE4 is much more similar to that desktop than it is to Windoze, Gnome or even KDE 3.5 (in terms of how it operates and the overall user experience). And that, IMHO, is not a bad thing. No, it's not a direct rip-off of OSX but there are enough similarities to make it easy to transition between the two. Regards, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org