The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six screenshots are included. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
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> It is bad design to make only one (not obvious) way of doing something.
Most users know about the context menu. The rest, won't be attempting to change the toolbar behavor anyway.
>you really ought to have mentioned Konqueror's wonderful Clear Location button
That's there for years, nothing new to report. Everyone knows about this.
>Your attitude of shove every power-user setting into the registry is rejected by all the millions
It is the only way to get rid of the clutter. Advanced users will know where to find these extra options and newbies won't have to deal with all that clutter.
>the default theme in 3.2 would have been bad since Keramik has only been the default for ~1 year.
Keramik as default was a bad decision from Day 1 IMHO.
> It is bad design to make only one (not obvious) way of doing something.
Most users know about the context menu. The rest, won't be attempting to change the toolbar behavor anyway.
>you really ought to have mentioned Konqueror's wonderful Clear Location button
That's there for years, nothing new to report. Everyone knows about this.
>Your attitude of shove every power-user setting into the registry is rejected by all the millions
It is the only way to get rid of the clutter. Advanced users will know where to find these extra options and newbies won't have to deal with all that clutter.
>the default theme in 3.2 would have been bad since Keramik has only been the default for ~1 year.
Keramik as default was a bad decision from Day 1 IMHO.