lubuntu 8.1 and KDE 4.1

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 13:31:41 UTC 2009


> I now have the above (dual booting with XP) and I am dissatisfied with
> KDE.  I have read a few other sources that describes the KDE task
> bar/system tray as problematic.
>
> I have been fiddling and tried unsuccessfully two simple things
> 1) make an application short cut in the task bar/left hand side.  I can
> make a widget.
> 2) move the task bar to vertical right side of screen
>
> If I am not able to do these two things then KDE 4.1 is no improvement
> on 3.5.  I would then need to know how to use an earlier KDE and make
> that the default.
>
> Any help and advice welcome
>

Stephen, KDE 4.1 was not meant to be an improvement on KDE 3.5! I is a
step in a new direction, and KDE made it clear that KDE 4.1 was not
meant for regular end users. Why did most of the major distros
(Kubuntu included) use it anyway? I really don't know.

KDE 4.2 (in Jaunty) _is_ meant for end users, and includes most of the
funtionality of KDE 3.5. A few things are missing, but not much, and
many new things have been added. I will be upgrading my users to KDE
4.2 when it becomes standard in Jaunty, in fact, we mostly skipped
over Kubuntu Intrepid.

I do not represent KDE nor Ubuntu / Canonical however as a community
member I apologize for the problems caused by including KDE4.1 in
end-user software. It was a bad decision, and many people were burned
by it.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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