Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers,

[Sebastian Beßler]

Duncan schrieb:

> Meanwhile, kde4.3.0 still has issues with xinerama (what SB calls
> "big screen") mode in some cases (including mine), too.

If I would mean xinerama I would say so. Maybe I am pedantic but
xinerama is only a deprecated extension of the X-server, that I never
had installed because I didn't need it here because I never even want to
stretch my desktop to more then one physical monitor or want to move
programms from one display to another by drag and drop. I see that it
can be usefull but that what I want is usefull and needed too.

> But I've seen several mentions that the problem has been fixed in
> trunk, for 4.4, and the fix may or may not make it into 4.3.x.

I tested this patch and for my setup without xinerama or xrandr it works
like I have it under kde3. One screen with kde on the monitor, one
screen only with the black X root window on the TV.
With that I wait for kde 4.4 (or 4.3.1 if it gets backported) to give
kde a fifth chance.

> 4.3 might actually be able to do this now.  Each 4.X release has
> VASTLY improved plasma, so far, and in this area 4.2 was finally
> becoming semi- usable and 4.3 is actually very reasonable, now. If
> small is what you want, 4.3 really does allow small now.  I have one
> panel set as small as it'll allow, looks like 12 px high (horizonal
> panel).

As 4.3 is still unuseable for me because of the "two different sized
screens on one"-bug I mentioned before I can't test that right now and
have to wait for kde 4.4. But the live-builds I tried to test the patch
had the same problems with scaling icons on small bars.

> IIRC the minimum in kicker was 24 px?

Yes it is and 24px would be absolutly fine for me but here it didn't
work, as a lot of the icons don't scale if reduced to smaller than 40px.
They get cut and I have only have half icons.

> But I finally got so fed up with amarok I found a different solution.
>  They killed all the functionality I actually used, while adding a
> bunch of junk I'm not interested in.

That is exact my point. Hurray a lot of new fancy dingelings but lack of
needed and used functions like generic usb audioplayer support.

> Have they gotten the winamp/xmms skinnable mini-player back yet?

Not the last time I looked into it (a few days after 4.3 was out).

> And I never /did/ use all that fancy scoring and etc. functionality.

They put so much new stuff in there, why not a import function for the
old amarok 1.4 database? I mean one that works and not only imports 10
or so records.

> Thus, they can go their way and I'll go mine.

I would do that too, but there is no player that fits my needs as much
as it amarok 1.4 does and so I think that I use it even if I switch when
kde 4.4 is out. I have 8GB RAM so the bloat that comes with it can be
absorbed.

> I decided there were simply better options available.

Could you name a few?

What I miss in kde 4.x so far is the run command kicker applet that I
had in kde3 as my main way of starting apps. In kde4 I have to use the
shortcut to get krunner (is it the name?) and type it there. And I don't
like krunner. I don't want any suggestions, I know what I am about to
start, thank you.

Oh and I miss the weather applet, and the kworldclock background image
and… and… and…

Can't they just add a feature so that kde4 looks and feels and behaves
as kde3 did? Yes I know that it is a dream, but sometimes dreams really
come true.

Greetings

Sebastian