Am Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2008 00:48:38 schrieb Fred A. Miller:
John Andersen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:23 AM, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
It strikes me that the people driving KDE 4 are more interested in "Gee Whiz" features, than function.
And that might be cool if the Gee Whiz features actually provided some functionality that was previously lacking.
Therein lies the problem.....they DON'T! KDE 3.5, as has been noted by others, IS the most user definable desktop ever!! If 4.* isn't as configurable, then the devs have failed, and failed miserably IMHO! There ISN'T any excuse for replacing configurability and features for glitz.......PERIOD!! It is inexcusable.
I work on several projects, which are organised in separate folders, I want all of those files on the desktop, grouped by project and showing only the relevant files, i.e. office documents and no backup files. I want to add/remove those groups easily, i.e. I might have a project that is "on hold" and hence that group should not be shown but it should be easy to re-add, i.e. I do not want to move/copy any files. I want different sets of files/groups and tools depending on my environment, yet not with a different user, because that would just duplicate stuff. At work my desktop looks different than at home, i.e. different apps on the desktop etc. I want to easily switch form one activity to the other. Since there are more and more widescreens, I want kmail to make use of the horizontal space and use a three vertical panes view, e.g. to not have to scroll that much when reading an email. Yet that implies that the message list has to adapt to the vertical pane, i.e. display subject and author etc in two lines, as the pane is not wide enough having all that in one line. When reading mailingslists, I want to group the threads. The problem is that a thread might have started 3 weeks ago, yet has a new post as of today, I want that thread to be displayed where the most recent post would be shown, if I did not enable threading. In order to get more efficient when searching for a certain topic and hence want to tag all my files, e.g. office documents, films etc., like I do with my music in amarok or photos in digikam already. How do I do that with KDE? Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org