On Sunday 06 July 2008, John Andersen wrote:
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Clayton
wrote: So change the colors. It's a couple clicks on the widgets... I hate the openSUSE default KDE3 color scheme... so I change it there too. There is a much much larger color palette selection available in KDE4 than in KDE3.
I'm not going to go over what a lot of people have posted. Basically, the fact that you can't do everything that KDE3 does is bad enough.
What can't you do?
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3757241/KDE+4.1+Beta+2:+T wo+Steps+Forward,+One+Step+Back.htm
Read the articel. Note that its about KDE 4.1 Beta 2, not 4.0
According to this article, the main KDE4 problems are: 1. A rumour that KDE4 would eliminate desktop icons (this was a joke by a developer, while he was demonstrating desktop icons!) 2. Automatic desktop positioning of icons and wallpaper customization 3. Widget icons that appear when the widget has focus 4. The main menu is based on kickoff rather than the classic KDE menu 5. Drag and drop between the panel and the desktop doesn't work 1. was just a rumour, my experience proves otherwise. 2. this is scheduled for 4.2, hardly a showstopper for me or anyone I can think of. I have changed the wallpaper here. 3. you can avoid this by locking the widgets. 4. you may switch to the classic menu. In my opinion kickoff (and derivative) is much more usable than the alternatives. 5. have patience? According to this article, major KDE4 problems are minor usability deficiencies (2,3,4,5) and a rumour (1). This doesn't make sense to me. By the way, I launch all applications from kickoff and never use the desktop for temporary file storage. My desktop contains 3 rarely used icons, is this why I don't understand what all this fuss is about? Kind regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org