
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...
I've had 3.2 installed on SuSE for a few weeks now, and you pointed out a lot of features I did not know about. Great job on the article! And great job to the KDE team for the improvements.
My one request is to have panel transparency set on a per-panel basis, not just a global setting. Maybe in time . . .