On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:50:34 +0530, Oliver Kullmann
I have used KDE3 on my laptop, which was my main working machine, for over 5 years, with Suse 9.2, and I was very satisfied. <snip long explanation>
i've seen many similar opinions, and personally agree with many of your sentiments. BUT: you state that multiple desktops don't work anymore under KDE4; what makes you think that? they work as well as they did under previous versions; no change there, except that a little while ago the default for new user accts. is to have only one desktop enabled. that leads to the pager not being shown. but if you enable more than one desktop, you'll get the back the pager, and neither did i experience any problems with virt. desktops, nor did i see such problems on mailing lists / forums. another thing is that you use KDE 4.6. that's the so-called "stable version" for openSUSE, but KDE considers 4.7 it's present stable version. in my experience, many of the half-finished features and not properly working ones have been fixed. 4.7 _is_ stable, and better than 4.6. you'll have less bad experiences using that instead of 4.6. regarding too much automation, everything is supposed to work out of the box, that's probably a side effect of trying to make linux DEs more attractive to non-geek users. it's not what i personally like, but i can understand the idea -- and live with it, since i still can configure things myself, even if i have to look around a bit because it's not exactly the same as it used to be under 3.5. the world keeps changing, and so will DEs. in the end, it's up to the developers who spend their time on creating all this, what they want to do. we can like or dislike their decisions, but we have to live with it -- or find something else we like better. personally i sometimes don't want to see this well finished desktop (KDE4) anymore, with it's effects and all. therefore i keep awesome (WM) and enlightenment (both versions) installed, to take a break now & then. they work very well with KDE programs, and in the end i go back to KDE4 again, since it is, in my opinion & experience, the best desktop env. around, in spite of not meeting my personal tastes 100%. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org