The fall of KDE?

[Derek Broughton]

Girard Henri wrote:

> and really bad atitude to believe such craps !
> 

"Craps"?  There are certainly some things wrong in there,  (And for "bad attitude", how about people who persist in top-posting.  Please stop).

>> http://ardchoille.nfshost.com/Blog/20081116

but many that aren't:

"... Dolphin, which is no where near as feature-rich as Konqueror. Why 
would someone take a feature-rich application out and replace it with an 
application which doesn't have a comparable set of features?

True.  It's getting better, but there are still quite a few things 
missing (for instance, in the detail view of Dolphin, there are only six 
possible columns - most noticeably missing for me is the name of the 
symlink target).

Kcontrol _has_ been removed (for the life of me, I can't see why he 
thinks he could do anything in it he can't do in System Settings, but he 
_is_ right that it's gone.  Perhaps he's just a little slower than me in 
realizing that much of what you saw in kcontrol is now in the "Advanced" 
tab of System Settings (it certainly took _me_ long enough to catch on).

Plasma is also seriously problematic - I'm not sure he's right that it's 
really "buggy", but very few of the plasmoids are really full 
replacements for their KDE 3.5 counterparts.  He complains about kicker 
- there's no way to autohide the panel and it can't be moved.  To me 
that's pretty serious (I worked around the moving part by creating a 
completely new one, but I still hate that a whole centimetre of my 
screen is wasted).

On the whole, I like KDE 4, but I can well understand every time 
somebody complains about the things that are missing.  A LOT of what we 
used to have is missing.

otoh, tabs in Dolphin is a silly complaint, as he can still use 
Konqueror for file browsing.
-- 
derek