Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Mar 2009 18:37 UTC
After two years, the relatively popular PCLinuxOS distribution has finally put out a new major release, imaginatively called PCLinuxOS 2009.1. PCLinuxOS is a release originally based on Mandrake (now Mandriva), but which has taken on a life of its own. The distribution has one selling point (for some, at least) few other popular distributions have: it eschews KDE4 (for now).
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2006-01-01
Ok, I have to take back some of the stuff I said above.
I had to download a whole ISO (the latest Mandriva). I was hoping I will prove other readers wrong but unfortunately (and fortunately), I could not back my first point up. I spoke before I researched, I spoke too soon so I do apologize to the community.
I could not back my first point up because (as one of the readers) have explained, when you select "Appearance Settings" and then from "Desktop Activity Type", "Folder View", the desktop icons behave just like in KDE 3 (and Windows). Even the popup menu changes the way I'd expect it to be. So I really do like the menu this way.
I restored this setting to "Desktop - Default" and only then my issues mentioned in point 1 were supported. I did not know about this setting and I feel like an idiot and again I do apologize.
However, I have to stress that "default" config matters. In my own opinion Folder View should have been the default configuration for the new KDE because that's what people are used to.
Point number 2, I cannot take this back but I have a suggestion how to make it better. Give the user the following option: "Hold Down Ctrl" and while the Ctrl button is held, let us move the window regardless where we click.
Point number 3: I did not really search the KDE forums. I saw the answer by accident but still, we should not show a separate panel to do move icons. This operation should be dynamic. Left click and drag. The icon should start dragging once the mouse pointer has been moved about half a centimetre away from the icon. This will prevent accidental moves.
Point 4. I could not replicate this with the latest Mandriva. All other distros I tried in the past had this problem even the ones with KDE 4.2.
Point 5. I cannot take this back except for the bit about the "KDE designers".
Having said all that, again I do apologize for speaking before research. Having the desktop set up this way, I would rate KDE 4 out of 5.
Edited 2009-03-14 03:41 UTC