Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Jan 2009 22:51 UTC
When KDE 4.0 was first released, it was met with quite some criticism. Even though people saw the huge potential, the lack of functionality and stability, as well as quite a few bugs detracted from the experience. The KDE developers continued to work on implementing their relatively radical vision, and with the release of KDE 4.2 creeping ever closer, it seems they're well on their way.
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RE: it IS getting better
by da_Chicken on Tue 13th Jan 2009 00:07
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4.1 was a massive jump over the original release and hopefully 4.2 is a massive leap over that.
It sure is. I'm currently tracking the KDE 4.2 development snapshots for Debian (unofficial but packaged by members of Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers team).
http://kde42.debian.net/
Member since:2006-04-16
Can you set it up to give you the application and window list menus for a mouse-click in the root window (what you control in KDE3 by ControlCenter > Desktop > Behavior > Mouse Button Actions)?
I never was able to find any way of getting them in Mandriva's edition of KDE 4.1.3, which for me is a show-stopper.
This is the first time I've not been able to get application menus by clicking in the root window since at least OL(V)WM on SPARC2's back in the early Nineties. KDE3 had the best scheme I had found in more than fifteen years, and then they seem to be gone entirely in 4.1.
What gives?
RE[2]: it IS getting better
by utumno on Tue 13th Jan 2009 17:02
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I haven't been a fulltime KDE user before but i have played around with each 4.x release and sure enough it's been getting better.
4.1 was a massive jump over the original release and hopefully 4.2 is a massive leap over that. While i still use GNOME on all my computers i'll be keeping an install of KDE4 around on my desktop.
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde4.html
The Debian KDE team have got backports for lenny but are not accepting bug reports.