Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/12/19 James Knott
: Clayton wrote:
2. I can NOT drag and drop a file from the desktop to either Konqueror or Dolphin. On the other hand I can do it among folders.
This afternoon, I installed OpenSUSE 11.1 & KDE 4. It lasted about 1 hour and I'm reinstalling from scratch with KDE3. The more I'm exposed to KDE 4, the more I hate it. It is one #%$%@#$% piece of crap!!!
It is extremely irritating!!!
Thank you for that constructive comment. Could you be more specific about what you did not like or what did not work for you? The current version in Suse (KDE 4.1) is an "early adopters" release and most of the issues with this version are fixed for KDE 4.2, which is the first KDE 4.x version that is meant for the end user. I would like to check that all your issues have been addressed and if not then I will file bugs. Thanks.
I'm not sure what bothered James specifically but I'll tell you what bothered me about kde4 and suse 11.1 in general: kde: 1. It does not remember settings from one session to another. I add things to the quick launch area and they're gone when I login. I add the "new tab" button to Konsole and its gone next session.. plus many others. 2. The task bar documentation says that there is a task list but there is no way to enable it in the dialog for the task bar settings... so no task list. 3. It is really hard to get the task bar to look right. It took me half an hour of fiddling around and still the clock is wrapped on two lines (neither of which I can see completely). 4. Neither Konqueror or Dolphin have a "picture" view mode for looking at my photographs. I'm not talking about icons.. but a proper photo browser. I'll really miss that (not really cause I'm not keeping kde4) Suse 11.1 itself. ( Fresh install on a thinkpad t61p with an nvidia card) 1. during the install it failed to write the boot loader. I was able to continue however. 2. after the install it regularly hangs starting the jexec service. However you have to boot the rescue disk, go into the shell and manually remove it from the various runlevels where it exists to get rid of it. 3. The system has locked up solid on me several times... nothing in the log. it was not pingable when locked up. 4. I suspended to disk (to see if it would work) and it seemed to suspend correctly but on resume it destroyed my boot partition! I had to reinstall and since I was there I figured out how to get past the bootloader failure: click the detailed options panel and select to install the bootloader on the mbr. argggg! 5. routinely when I logout of a session the screen just stays blank and I don't get the login screen. It seems that the (yast installed nvidia driver from nvidia repo) does not restart correclty. In these cases I have to reboot! 6. after being installed and working (sorta) for half a day the wireless network inexplicably stopped working! I try to connect to my wireless router and the icon does not show any activity. I have another machine that I'll use for work till I figure out what to do. I'll either go back to suse 10.3, or try Fedora 10. This has been the most disappointing Suse release I've ever tried and its cost me about 2 days of work time. Wendell Nichols -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org