Hi, On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote: ...
KDE 3 users: please tell me what KDE 4 is missing or doesn't work for you. Other than a few minor issues (no manual panel hide, no System Settings applet, no metadata in Konqueror) I think that KDE 4.4 has all the functionality of KDE 3, and it uses less resources too now!
If there is something holding you back on KDE 3 please let me know what so that I could file a bug on it. Thanks!
Dotan, It is hard to name one single issue. I honestly tried KDE4.3.3 on a number of machines (and still have it on one), but there were too many small issues, so that eventually I decided to stay with 11.0/KDE3.5 on my main Desktop. I've opened bugs on most annoying things. I'll try to summarize here. 1) Konsole has no "sessions" anymore but "profiles". Fine. But it does not keep profiles user defined in the menu. This upstream bug was absolute show stopper for me, but fortunately someone on KDE bug lists suggested workaround. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557536 2) Quite bad bug in "Folder View" if the user adds icons to the desktop. Every (or almost every) login icons are moving up, so that eventually some are out of view (or closed by panel) and scroller is added on the write. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559260. Also upstream, I have not seen any notification about the fix or workaround. 3) Login manager settings are changed after update (files backgroundrc and kdmrc). https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566252 So I have to either re-define my settings or copy backup files over the newly written. Also very annoying. 4) Two small one, not really important: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557260 and https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557283 5) kdetv is not ported yet to KDE4. So one have to use KDE3 version. I tried alternative (tvtime). It is nice, but has a number of drawbacks, that were too annoying for me, so I returned to kdetv. It always sets the audio very low upon startup, so one have to go to mixer and move slider up. kdetv remembers last level set. tvtime is not started automatically if it was running before logout (could probably be solved easily). tvtime does not prevent screen saver from running unless it is set to full screen mode (not my case). 6) webilder (program that downloads pictures from webshots and flicker and makes them "wallpapers" is not working in KDE4 yet). 7) Somebody wrote on that list that new amarok does not allow tags editing. I was using it intensively, since I had not found anything that flexible with regards to language and encoding. Probably there are more that I've just forgotten. But it was enough for me. -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org