[opensuse] opensuse 11.1 KDE4 questions?

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:

2008/12/22 Sven Burmeister :

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How did you know that you could right-click the desktop in kde3? How did you know that one can drag and drop?

This is the nub, through previous experience with other window systems. There was an expectation that right clicking would show what I could do with the object. Similarly with Drag N' Drop, it's a feature common to many systems, actually one that tend to neglect, in favour of lower mouse movement context menu.

I think Sven's point is that you didn't automagically know you could right click or drag and drop items the first time you picked up a computer. It was something new and different and you were willing to discover all the tiny useful little details that made up your first gui system. KDE4 is new and different. If it did everything exactly the same way KDE3 does, it would be called KDE3.x, not KDE4. The KDE3 approach may be more intuitive to you, but that's only because you've used it for years and you know it like the back of your hand. Different doesn't have to mean inefficient, but you really can't apply the KDE3 or windows or OSX approach to KDE4 and expect them to work 100% of the time. Think of when you first moved from windows to *nix. What was your motivation for making such a huge switch? Why is it so hard to learn a semi new interface now? Compared to windows -> *nix, KDE3 -> 4 is peanuts. KDE4 is only painful if you've become immersed in KDE3, that's why distros are hiding or discarding KDE3 - people new to linux are already willing to learn a new interface so might as well wean them on KDE4. Unfortunately, there are very few tutorials out there for KDE4 and none of them are comprehensive. With how quickly KDE4 has been changing, I think any tutorial written right now will be obsoleted with the next release. There are some links on the forum that may or may not be useful depending on your needs: http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/387392-kde4-tutorials.html. The best way to learn KDE4 right now is probably to set out a couple of hours on a weekend or something, start with a default ~/.kde4, play with it and ask questions if there's something you can't quite translate. KDE3 applications still work fine on KDE4, so it's not like you'll be losing your favorite programs. Nkoli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org