| 1 |
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
| 2 |
> I got KDE 4.2.1 installed with only a couple of bugs along the way. |
| 3 |
> I'm not impressed: there's some eye-candy, but usability is reduced. |
| 4 |
> There's a very limited choice of desktop backgrounds: |
| 5 |
> I like the 'No picture, pavement' choice in 3.5.10 with different colors, |
| 6 |
> but there's nothing similar in 4.2.1 . |
| 7 |
> I did something unexpected & froze a new panel -- 1 CPU at 100 % -- |
| 8 |
> & managed to get back to "normal" only by deleting ~/.kde4/share . |
| 9 |
> Dolphin is pathetic compared with Thunar, let alone Krusader |
| 10 |
> (I've never tried Konqueror as a file manager). |
| 11 |
> I can't try the new Gwenview, as some of the new files clash with the old |
| 12 |
> & I'm certainly not unmerging the KDE 3 version. |
| 13 |
> |
| 14 |
> I've gone back to 3.5.10 more or less, but am stuck with 4.2.1's desktop: |
| 15 |
> the background, R-click menu & 4.2.1 panel are still there & working |
| 16 |
> (no, trying to change it with the 3.5.10 CC has no effect). |
| 17 |
> Can anyone suggest what I have to delete to get all of 3.5.10 restored ? |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> I have a lot of respect for KDE developers over the past few years, |
| 20 |
> but they've badly underestimated the size of their task for KDE 4 . |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
> Perhaps I should try Xfce 4.6 with some KDE 4 apps ... (smile) |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
I would suggest totally getting rid of everything KDE3 related before |
| 25 |
trying to go KDE4... I also had lots of problems and conflicts with |
| 26 |
both installed. Once I got rid of all traces of KDE3 and started |
| 27 |
"fresh" with KDE4, it has been working well. I really didn't care for |
| 28 |
the whole look and feel at first, but it has grown on me. Me, I set it |
| 29 |
to random background every 10 minutes. Honestly the background is |
| 30 |
rarely ever seen on my screen so it's not a big deal to me. I like |
| 31 |
maximized windows. :) For the same reason I don't use the desktop |
| 32 |
widgets at all, and I find dockable taskbar stuff from KDE3 to be more |
| 33 |
useful... because a bunch of gigantic widgets on my desktop which are |
| 34 |
always covered by windows seems totally stupid and useless to me. |
| 35 |
|
| 36 |
Overall I think KDE3 was much faster in performance (probably lack of |
| 37 |
3D effects) and more productive to use... I'm sticking with KDE4 for |
| 38 |
now simply because it's the "new" thing... but there's no compelling |
| 39 |
reason for me to use it instead of KDE3. |
| 40 |
|
| 41 |
I don't use GUI filemanager so I have no opinion on dolphin. New |
| 42 |
gwenview works fine for me, again I nuked the old stuff first. I |
| 43 |
actually use gqview instead of gwenview, though. |
| 44 |
|
| 45 |
KDE4 versions of k3b, digikam, k9copy, koffice all seem to work well for me. |
| 46 |
|
| 47 |
The only app I am really disappointed with is Amarok 2. I really liked |
| 48 |
Amarok 1 and they started over for Amarok 2 and I dislike just about |
| 49 |
everything they've done to it. The tree-view collection list is |
| 50 |
awful!!!!, the UI is bad (middle 50% of screen is wasted), playlist is |
| 51 |
not intuitive. Does not support titles in cue files. The only thing |
| 52 |
they've done better is Last.fm works better... but I am about [------] |
| 53 |
this close to going back to Amarok 1 and taking on board the KDE3 libs |
| 54 |
it brings with it. |
Archives