KDE 4.0.0!

Troy Lenze tlenze at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 04:15:13 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 21:51 -0600, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2008 09:37:25 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 17/01/2008, Howard Coles Jr. <dhcolesj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So Let me ask ya'
> > > All the things folks are complaining about in KDE 4 in Gutsy, are they
> > > as "non-functional" in Hardy?
> > >         a. can't resize Panels (where the Kmenu is if its not called a
> > > "panel" any more).
> > >         b. Can't select multiple objects on the desktop without moving
> > > the background.
> > >         c.  unstable.
> > >         d.  can't alter widgets (?) from plasma.
> > >         e.  can't configure Mouse buttons (like for a lefty or just to
> > > alter what the 3rd button does).
> > >         f.  can't run Pidgin.
> > >
> > > My main concern is running Gnome apps generally, as Pidgin and Gnucash
> > > are quite important around here.
> >
> > Those are KDE 4.0 issues, not Ubuntu issues. And _not_ KDE4 issues
> > (KDE 4.0 is not KDE4).
> >
> 
> Uh, right.
> 
> That doesn't answer my question.  I'm assuming that if his experience 
> was "pleasurable" then some of those issues were KDE 4.0 on gutsy issues, or 
> running as a side desktop issue, or something.  Either way, if they are not 
> problems on Hardy, then there's hope.
> 
I'm having KDE 4.0 problems on Hardy, but I'm also on an older machine.
I figure they have three months to fix things up, so I'll continue to
use GNOME and visit KDE 4.0 when I see a big bunch of updates go
through.





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