On Tuesday 28 October 2008 08:32:10 Clayton wrote:
A lot of issues that people complained about have been resolved, see the link at the bottom of the page. The KDE developers have indeed fixed many of these.
Having been one of the people using KDE4 since the 4.0 release, I have to say that the changes up to 4.1.70 or whatever we are at now are quite dramatic. KDE4 has gone from a barely usable desktop to one that works quite well and still retains that KDE feel that I grew up with. There are still bits not right, but it's getting there.
There are a great many 'I hate KDE 4' messages on many lists, and has been said here, most are so vague that you can't answer them logically. When people have brought up a specific point I have often found that it was something that can be done in KDE 4, but not in the same way. I have tried on-list and off-list telling people how to get the functionality they crave, but usually there is simply no response - on or off-list. I can only conclude that they are too lazy to learn another way of doing something. Interestingly, some of the changes that annoyed me at first are now not only second-nature to me, but actually feel more productive than the old ways. There are, of course, one or two things that I'm still waiting to see, but they are icing on the cake. Everything I need to be productive is in place (though ports of some packages are still in progress and KDE 3 versions currently in use). If any user truly wants to understand KDE 4, let him ask specific questions. Those of us that have successfully made the change will be only too glad to help. A very new resource is the wiki at http://userbase.kde.org. It has only been in existence since Mid-September, and still needs contributions. In particular, if you have been answering questions on lists, please add hints and tips to the various pages. Thanks Anne