Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Oct 2009 15:48 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
The KDE team has released version 4.3.2 of their Free software desktop environment. It's a minor release which comes with a number bugfixes and enhancements, with the focus being KMail and KWin. It'll find its way to your distribution soon enough.
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Member since:2007-03-26
i used to be a satisfied kde3 user. BUT,
Why is it that i consider widget driven deskop as the worst WIMP in existance... I cant tell but kde has still not "wow"ed me in any way, frustration, bad implementation and an akward control panel..... it feels almost like windows 7 or a really bad knockoff from osx. It does not what i want it to do.
Why is it that i consider widget driven deskop as the worst WIMP in existance... I cant tell but kde has still not "wow"ed me in any way, frustration, bad implementation and an akward control panel..... it feels almost like windows 7 or a really bad knockoff from osx. It does not what i want it to do.
What distro did you test it out on?
Because I've found a large number of distro's have very poorly implimentations of KDE4 (particularly Kubuntu - which is simply terrible).
By far the best implimentation of KDE4 I've used is ArchLinux (with the KDEMod packages).
In fact, it's what I'm running now.
The only problem with ArchLinux is it's not a 15min "hands-free" install like Kubuntu is.
On the lighter note i LOVE kwin. that part is a godsend for people like me. i even use it on my gnome desktop.
Also i really like kgeography.. (end point) that is all.
Ironically I don't like Kwin all that much as I find the compositing very slow compared to Compiz-Fusion.
So the 1st thing I do on an KDE4 install is replace the WM with compiz.
Member since:2005-07-06
Why is it that i consider widget driven deskop as the worst WIMP in existance...
Can't even imagine how that can be a problem, since nothing makes your desktop fill with widgets. You only get what you select.
Personally I have ony one widget on my desktop, a folderview used as containmnet(fullscreen).
In addition to the desktop I use tre more widgets, a menu, taskbar and notifications widget.
Incidently this is exactly the same as my KDE3 setup, the only difference is that it was done by two different applications kdesktop and kicker.
Member since:2005-11-11
same. I'm just not sold on the idea of having desktop + shell by SuperKaramba.
I try it out once in a while, but I don't feel comfortable there. I'm riding KDE3 into the ground, until it is no longer in Debian Stable (maybe Old Stable) though that means I am using a non maintained, non updated desktop, not to mention it makes it a little hard to get updated packages for other things if I am stuck with Stable. Which is basically why, as I have detailed before, I don't use Linux as much anymore. For me personally, KDE4 has been a disaster.
Member since:2007-03-26
same. I'm just not sold on the idea of having desktop + shell by SuperKaramba.
I try it out once in a while, but I don't feel comfortable there. I'm riding KDE3 into the ground, until it is no longer in Debian Stable (maybe Old Stable) though that means I am using a non maintained, non updated desktop, not to mention it makes it a little hard to get updated packages for other things if I am stuck with Stable. Which is basically why, as I have detailed before, I don't use Linux as much anymore. For me personally, KDE4 has been a disaster.
I try it out once in a while, but I don't feel comfortable there. I'm riding KDE3 into the ground, until it is no longer in Debian Stable (maybe Old Stable) though that means I am using a non maintained, non updated desktop, not to mention it makes it a little hard to get updated packages for other things if I am stuck with Stable. Which is basically why, as I have detailed before, I don't use Linux as much anymore. For me personally, KDE4 has been a disaster.
You do realise you can have the traditional KDE3 style desktop on KDE4.
It's an option in the Desktop Control Panel applet.
In fact, it literally only takes 3 mouse button clicks to switch between widget mode and icon/folder mode
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2006-07-12
i used to be a satisfied kde3 user. BUT,
Why is it that i consider widget driven deskop as the worst WIMP in existance... I cant tell but kde has still not "wow"ed me in any way, frustration, bad implementation and an akward control panel..... it feels almost like windows 7 or a really bad knockoff from osx. It does not what i want it to do.
On the lighter note i LOVE kwin. that part is a godsend for people like me. i even use it on my gnome desktop.
Also i really like kgeography.. (end point) that is all.