<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stevenvollom@sbcglobal.net">stevenvollom@sbcglobal.net</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:%3C49F2A4C0.6030809@sbcglobal.net%3E" type="cite"><div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Hakan Koseoglu wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Eberhard Roloff <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tuxebi@gmx.de"><tuxebi@gmx.de></a> wrote: <blockquote type="cite">Hakan Koseoglu wrote: Why don't you use xfce, as in xubuntu-desktop. This is an officeal </blockquote> Because I like KDE? :-) Although I don't really fancy KDE4, the main reason I can't use it on one of my boxes is due to a bug (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/299631">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/299631</a>) which crashes KDE4 immediately whereas KDE3.5 works perfectly fine. </blockquote> I am curious; is what you don't like about KDE 4.2.2 the way the Kmenu works? If that is so, there are two plasmoids that accomplish that task, one that is the new type, and one that is like the 3.5, where it opens similarly. Because of my equipment, I had to use Jaunty early in the Alpha stage and am used to the new method. Each time a glitch came up during the testing stages, I sometimes would lose the new-style Kmail button and would have to use the traditional style that was like 3.5. Strangely enough, after I got used to the new method, I preferred the new to the old. But if that is your reason for preferring 3.5, you might want to take a look at it. I think it is called the traditional Kmenu. I also read chatter about the possibility of 3.5 being retained, but don't know if that is true. Steven </blockquote> Steven, it doesn't sound like he doesn't "like" KDE 4.x. Rather, it sounds like there's an OpenChrome bug that makes it, but not KDE 3.5, crash. Those are separate issues. But since you asked about KDE 3.5 vs. KDE 4.2.x preferences.... For me, KDE 4.2.x is not yet feature-complete the way KDE 3.5 is. One big, big issue for me is no KPrinter (it's already been decided to remove it, so reporting this as a bug doesn't help). KPrinter is about the easiest way to get GTK/GNOME apps (e. g. Evolution, GQView, and so on) to actually use the KDE printing system. Note that this is just one example of feature-incompleteness, not the only one. I use Kubuntu Intrepid with KDE 4.2.x at work to get to know the new KDE. I have it configured for the "traditional" KMenu, and it's useable. But when I need to do serious work, I still call for KDE 3.5. --TP <div class="moz-signature"> _______________________________ Do you <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>? <a href="http://www.cmosnetworks.com">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> </body> </html>