Re: The kde team solution is not work well, i think so

["Paul Johnson" <baloo@ursine.ca>]

On Jan 15, 2008 3:18 AM, Alejandro Exojo <suy@badopi.org> wrote:
> El Martes, 15 de Enero de 2008, Paul Johnson escribió:
> > I
> > think the upstream KDE team was quite premature in calling it stable
> > given some relatively basic stuff like configuring the panel are still
> > missing.
>
> Stable doesn't mean "with all the features KDE 3 had". :-)
>
> Sure, I also think that the panel has _way_ less features that I'm very used
> to in kicker, and I probably am not going to use the KDE 4.0 desktop, but I
> disagree with what you said.
>
> KWin, Dolphin, JuK, Konsole, Okular, Gwenview, and lots, lots of applications
> (especially from KDE Games and KDE Edu), are ready, stable, and have hot new
> features.

My first impressions of the new Konsole are fairly negative.  Are they
trying to take a page from gnome-terminal's book with keybindings that
are common in terminal programs.  "Hey, let's make the default
keybinding for some obscure function we threw in because we got a
single wishlist bug with a code snippet ALT+CTRL+L.  Nobody uses that
for a frame refresh key or anything important ever!"  And what's with
not being able to automatically resize the konsole back to your choice
of standard terminal dimensions?  It's a remarkable step backwards.

> Delaying more the release just because Plasma is not fully on par with
> kdesktop and kicker, would be unfair to the rest of the projects inside of
> KDE.

I disagree.  If you're going to redo something as basic and taken for
granted as kdesktop and kicker, it should at least do the basics like
properly capture tray icons from things like wine and Google Desktop
instead of displaying an empty space you can do nothing with where the
icon should be.  It's like if a contractor came to remodel, decided
the floors were taking too long and said "We'll get around to
finishing it in three weeks.  In the meantime, just walk on the
joists, you'll be fine.  Just watch your step, it's 12 feet to the
basement floor!"

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca