upgrade 8.04 -> 9.04+kde3: how?

[Billie Erin Walsh]

Martin Laberge wrote:
> On Saturday 13 June 2009 01:17:15 Nils Kassube wrote:
>   
>> Martin Laberge wrote:
>>     
>>> - Konqueror - it was in kde3 the better program on my machine
>>> 	in kde4 it is horrible, Why loose a masterpiece like this?
>>>       
>> I don't think "better" or "horrible" are good enough descriptions for a 
>> bug report / feature request. Can you describe what is missing? Maybe 
>> I'm not using that single feature X you need to make Konqueror 
>> acceptable for you, but I can't say the KDE4 version of Konqueror is 
>> horrible or unusable for me. Instead I do like the new feature of the 
>> file manager profile where you get the "+" or "-" sign when you move the 
>> mouse over a file / folder symbol.
>>
>>     
>>> - context menus everywhere - They are just missing in kde4 in
>>> 	more places that I can enumerate here.
>>>       
>> If there are so many places you could just list some for a start. 
>> Without a list of individual missing features it just looks like whining 
>> which doesn't help anyone.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>>
>>     
>
> One particular place.
> When I right-click on a file in konqueror, I had a multitude of
> options in kde3 and probably around zero to three in kde4.
>
> Another.
> When I stop over some texts not completely visible,
> it appears totally in a yellow popup.
>
>   

This will probably get me in trouble but...........

Have you ever thought of using the file manager to work with your files 
and folders and not a web browser?

On the task bar there is this nice looking folder with a yellow star on 
it. It's one little gizmo I've come to like a _LOT_. With it I can 
navigate to any file or folder I want to open [ well, almost any ]. It's 
a neat little thing called "Quick Access". I can open files and folders 
or just launch the file manager [ Dolphin ] where I want it to open 
without having to navigate so much.

As I understand the plan for the future Konqueror is not going to be the 
swiss army knife of KDE any longer. It's future is to be a better web 
web browser. It's something people are just going to have to live with 
or change desktops. Much like all the changes from KDE 3.5.10 to KDE 
4.x. I can't say I'm particularly crazy about it but as I learn to work 
_with_it_ and not _against_it_ KDE 4.x is becoming much easier to live 
with.

If I could give one piece of advice for KDE users it would be to learn 
to work _WITH_ KDE 4.x and quit moaning and groaning about the loss of 
KDE 3.x. Once you learn to work _WITH_ KDE 4.x you can do just about 
anything you could do in KDE 3.x. As KDE 4.x matures I feel like most 
people will get over it. When KDE 5.x comes along they will moan and 
groan over the loss of KDE 4.x.

Asi es la vida!

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