KDE 4.1 personal opinion

[Willy K. Hamra]

since the release of intrepid is not _THAT_ far, and i'm going to do a
fresh install when it's out (i think upgrading is probably going to be a
pain in **there**, specially since it's going to change KDE3 to KDE4), i
decided to install KDE 4.1, and try it out for a couple of months.
i'm actually impressed with how beautiful, and much more stable it is
than my horrible experience with KDE 4.0 back in gutsy.
but still, there is a lot of features missing, some parts actually exist
but not used! mainly the get stuff from internet buttons, like the
install new widget, and others.
i'm surprised why paste in a file browser doesn't work when there is
text in clipboard, it used to pop a box asking for a filename to put the
text in, and i use this feature quite a lot.
plasmoids are pretty, but their real beauty starts when there is dozens
maybe hundred plasmoids to choose from, with all sorts of stuff running
in them.
i caouldn't help but notice, how when running gtk applications (and tk
apps like aMSN) the taskbar (called task manager now?) starts losing
color, shaky, appearing and disappearing at random, when all gtk windows
are minimized, it becomes normal again (see attachment), i have the gtk
to qt package for KDE4 and use qtcurve as the style for gtk apps.
keyboard extra buttons! they're not working, even print screen. volume
uo/down, mute, play/pause, scroll lock (weird, huh?), the other keys
were already not working in KDE 3.5.9 (windows based keys), like email,
internet,search, my computer, etc...
the effects are awesome, and never crashed for me, unlike compiz that
gave me hell on both gutsy and hardy. but i think there should be some
shortcut to disable effects and enable them all in one click. having
effects on, reduces game speeds a lot, and the creen would be a bit
fuzzy, i go to desktop settings, and disable effects, and then renable
them when done playing.
system settings lacks a few stuff, like disks and filesystems, and the
sound settings is absolute rubbish, i didnt find anything useful in it,
not even a test button!
that's all i can think of for now,
would love to hear what other fellow users think of KDE 4.1 :-)


-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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