Re: Kde 3.5 ...
>> Please, let me know what KDE 4 is missing for you. KDE 4.4 has only a
>> handful of regressions from KDE 3.5.10, and they are not dealbreakers.
>> Some of those are addressed in KDE 4.5.
>
> I'm tired of typing this time and again:
>
> No speaker beep in Konsole--dev says, "Too bad."
>
That might be fixed already:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177861
> Device Notifier is a poor design and not easily changed to simply allow
> mounting so removable medium rather than starting Dolphin each time.
>
Do you mean unmounting? If so, then please comment on this bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236586
> No right click on the desktop to bring up the menu.
>
There is now! If it does not work for you as expected in KDE 4,4 then
please be very specific about what happened, and what you expected to
happen. Thanks.
> Other things that just don't seem inuitive *for me* that were in KDE
> 3.5.
>
This is what I'd like to know! It is very subjective, but KDE 3 was
very intuitive in some aspects. Tell me what is not intuitive in KDE
4.4 and I will file the bugs. Thanks, this is an important one! I
agree that many things are _not_ intuitive.
> These are small things to be sure and likely of little interest to
> anyone else. To me they are the little things that make 3.5 a pleasure
> to use and 4.x an impediment to my produtivity.
>
No, I agree. Excellence is in the little details. KDE 3 was excellent.
We need eyes like your to make KDE 4 excellent as well.
>> The "KDE 4 sux" time has passed. If you still have problems with KDE
>> 4, then please let me know what they are so that they can be fixed.
>
> The time for "I tried it for 15 minutes and KDE4 sux" comments has long
> passed, yes. I've given it a fair shake, I feel, I've tried asking
> politely for the things I liked about 3.5 to restored in 4.x only to be
> brushed aside by KDE devs. So *for me* KDE4 is not my vision of an
> ideal desktop environment. YMMV and I wish the KDE4 team and its users
> all the best. I may check in again some day and see how things are
> going. This is Free Software after all where one may come and go as one
> pleases.
>
Of course, and if you are filing bugs then that is appreciated.
> If nothing else, KDE4 has given me the benefit of giving the other DEs a
> fair evaluation, something I'd not done when I was happy with KDE 3.4 and
> 3.5.
>
You might want to take a look at Gnome Shell, which will become Gnome
3 in half a year. Some nice ideas there.
--
Dotan Cohen
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http://what-is-what.com
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