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Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 080828 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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>> 080828 BRM wrote: |
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>> Reading all those KDE4 reviews I really can not understand |
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>> why KDE4 may be more useful for me rather KDE3. |
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> My estimate (also based on reading & screenshots) is |
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> that it is 60 % eye candy, 30 % hype & 10 % useful improvements: |
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> the basic motivation is to make it work well with Qt 4 . |
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> Dolphin is offered as a simpler alternative to Konqueror file-management, |
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And if I understand correctly, then main reason for Qt 4 is that KDE |
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apps should then be able to run on other OSes (read that as windoze). |
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I tried Dolphin on a Kubuntu system, IMO it is a giant step backwards |
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from Konqueror (ex, no fish://). |
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Also from what I gather KDE 4.1 is another developer release with 4.2 |
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target as the first user (usable?) release. |
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On the plus side, the synergy of KDE4 apps is improved (example, common |
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address book) so we can look forward to a smoother user experience. |
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On the negative side, the nvidia binary drivers still have major |
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performance issues with KDE4. This is a show stopper for me. If nvidia |
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does not fix their drivers by KDE 4.2, I'll have to replace video |
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cards... Of course that assumes nvidia is still around after their |
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packaging fiasco. :( |
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