Charles Obler wrote:
I've just installed 11.2, and I'm SHOCKED by the apparent loss of functionality. It feels like Linux is being dumbed-down to meet the meager expectations of Windows users. Tell me I'm wrong!
You're wrong.
Most of my complaints pertain to KDE 4. Something has gone TERRIBLY wrong with KDE. Here are some of the things that I can do in 10.2 that I can no longer do in 11.2:
[ list deleted ] OK, I never used Windows, therefore I do have quite some issues with the "great" desktop systems - they always used to create much more headache than ease things for me. I gave KDE a try several times, but since 94 I was using f(v)wm and always ran back to it after a short time because it gave me much better productivity. I did get a new laptop recently, and installed OS 11.2 on it, together with the latest KDE4.4 from factory. As I had some HW issues (somehow sound and some keys wouldn't work properly) I had a look at KDE again (where miracly those things do work), and I have to say I'm really impressed. There's still some issues, but its so much less than the years before that I think this time I'll stick to it. That said, some of my initial issues were similar to the topics of your list. Most of them I could solve by digging through the configuration menus. And that as a (more or less) complete novice. So I wonder what you did NOT to find them. Sit in the new car and expect the light switch at the same location, but refuse to look around where it might be? I think you should look at KDE 4 the same way I look at it when comming from fvwm: It's a new beast. Don't assume it knows all the tricks that you have trained your old pet in the last years, but be prepared to re-teach it.... Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin@astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org