Linked by Rahul Gaitonde on Thu 15th Jan 2004 06:40 UTC
Around 3 weeks ago, I downloaded the 2nd beta of KDE 3.2 from their FTP site. I've been using this release every day since then. The purpose of my writing this piece is not to highlight KDE 3.2's new features and applications - read the Changelog at KDE's site for that - but to give you a complete picture of how it measures up to its previous versions in terms of everyday use. Does it make me more productive? Is the command line more efficient yet? Or, even better, does it make me use the command line more effectively? Read on...
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"I kind of like the idea of a file manager which supports tabs as well as split views"
KDE 3.2 has great tab support, better even than Mozilla's. I can simply drag a tab into the taba rea from one window to the other. Drag a file to a tab and that tab will activate allowing me to place it where I like. Drop a file on the tab bar and have it open in a tab. Etc. Pretty much anything you can think of, you cand o.
Also, I think many of your bug reports are invalid, this coming from the MDK 9.2 cooker snapshot. I also liek the way you showed off kdialog, it was impressive, I wish more reviewers would show such things.
Finally, about the Universal Sidebar, you can add, and remove entries from it. But with one great limitation, waht you remove or add from it will affect your sidebar in any Konqueror profile. If it were per profile it would allow you to have as you wished, history shown only in web browser mode, and many other nice things, such as website feeds only in web browser mode. Etc.
If you are of the same opinion, please vote for this bug =)
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58580
A more sane explanation of the above:
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Profiles don't remember sidebar tabs. For example, if I add a new sidebar tab, such as a link to my pictures folder or a media player it will not remember it in the view profile, it will remember it globally for all profiles. Same thing happens if I want to remove a sidebar tab such as a the media player from one of my profiles, such as the web browsing profile. It removes it globally.
All sidebar options should be saved in the View Profile. This way I will only have the RSS feeds display in my web browsing file, as well as history, eliminating the clutter of my file management profile.
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Also related to Konqueror profiles is this bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62678 You see, Konqueror profiles don't seem to remember the text zoom.
I know I shouldn't be advertising the KDE wishes/bugs I have, but it is really very related to the reviewer's plea.