On Tuesday 26 January 2010 12:56:22 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
I know you are trying to help Dotan, but I just cannot find any compelling reason to move to KDE4. I just don't have the time NOR the inclination to figure out how to make KDE4 work like KDE3. Especially since I can still use KDE3. I don't share the new direction that the KDE devs have decided upon.
That's fine, you don't have to use it! You certainly have no obligation, quite the opposite. I just want to know what the problems are so that I can help fix them.
I'm using a friend's machine that has KDE4 and it's annoying. I move the mouse to far when going to the file menu and the screen jumps with that annoying choose a window.
You can disable that in System Settings. It is the first thing that I disable on a new KDE 4 install!
I could go on and on.
Please, please do! I want to know.
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. As for faster, KDE 4 _is_ faster than KDE 3, so long as you don't have Qt3 libraries running.
Otherwise, I
have too many other pressing needs. Shoot I spend a lot of my time in the virtual terminals. YaST ncurses is much faster than GUI.
Good luck tho. Sorry if my 2 cents doesn't help.
So long as you let me know what annoys you and help me file bugs and feature requests, you are helping a lot. Thanks.
Forgive me,.... but you did ask. For one "PLASMA" has got to be the most obtuse aspect of V4. It's kludgy and the SUSE team insists on disabling stuff like the kdm theme change option because they insist on using the openSUSE theme in the OPENSUSE way. I have been using both SuSE and kde for over 10 years. I looked forward to V4 and anticipated glitches et al....... But the overall concept not only is obtuse but at times insulting. 1/2 of the plasmoids aren't configurable, so if your system differs in any appreciable amount from the plasmoid dev then you may have issues and then either stick with it and deal (aka Half baked plasmoid) or drop it and "hope" you'll find something that might work... Take the many versions of weather plasmoids... Also, after having used Ubuntu Kubuntu and Mandriva the kde offerings are more user friendly merely because they afford more options and feature access........ I guess the SUSE team (gotta love Novell) thinks they should decide what should be dropped, and that seems to change with each version. The sound config for pulse in the "personal settings" compared to other distros seems to be dumbed down and access to the pulseaudio config tools in /usr/bin isn't in the menus... Guess if you're not inclined to be a bit of a geek you on your own... Over all the menu and "kickoff" (I HATE THAT) are lacking to say the least and the menu update tool that used to be in kde 3 isn't there so If SUSE hasn't deemed anything essential then is a hand written menu adjust or go punt (for the less technologically inclined). I had gone to using E17 and then with ecomorph... but then that broke when 11.2 came along! I find the overall trend in both development and implementation bothersome especially in light that SUSE (or SuSE) was one of the man supporters and devel contributors to the KDE project only to see both of them (KDE and SuSE) spin off who knows where. If you want to improve KDE 4, look at what the disgruntled dislike in comparsion to V 3 - instead of trying to completely redesign the mousetrap, might your team consider augmenting the transition.... But what do I and the rest know... If Novell had their way they'd have us all using GNOME regardless (actually tried and the user base revolted - due to lack of choice [not so much about Gnome itself]), I mean they're bound and determined to make the investment in Ximian pay off one way of the other. Just my $0.02, Curtis. -- BEWARE! Spammers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Those throwing objects at the alligators will be asked to retrieve them! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org