Re: Fedora-9 + KDE minor issue #5

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 15:58 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 15:49, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
[Incidentally, has the Control Center disappeared in Fedora-9, or is
F=>Applications=>Settings=>System Settings
a replacement for it?]

Yes it is. I don't know whether other things will be added to it,
though.

While I like the Windows-like layout,
the individual settings, eg Desktop, seem much feebler than before.

Actually, I find a lot of the settings in KDE-4 very strange.
It is as though a completely new set of people developed KDE-4
without ever looking at KDE-3.
Many of the options that used to be offered
seem to have disappeared, for no apparent reason.

For your settings, have you looked at the various files
in .kde/share/config/ ?

Thanks for the suggestion,
but I didn't find anything relevant to my (minor) problem,
that while some choices, eg Konsole in Desktop 2, persist through re-boots,
others, eg Konsole in Desktop 1, do not.

It's hard to work out whether it's our ineptitude with the new system or just
that the thing we are looking for hasn't arrived yet :-)
----
there are a number of features that are simply missing on KDE-4...I
suppose it was the price of progress. The biggest thing that bothers me
is the Desktop itself...

- you can't delete files directly from the desktop, you have to use
Dolphin
- you can't jump to files on the desktop by pressing the first letter on
the keyboard.
- desktop icon alignment options are weak.

Another thing and I'm not certain that it's KDE-4 but I think it is...is
that starting applications from the taskbar isn't reliable and neither
is switching between applications by clicking on their icons in the
taskbar. I have had a few moments of seemingly hanging when switching
applications via the taskbar. At those moments, X and Plasma seem to be
using excessive cycles and have even had to force an X quit several
times since installing Fedora 9.

Yes, there are some minor annoyances...as Tim points out, I don't get
the multiple tabbed Konsole restored but only 1 instance with 1 tab when
re-entering my Desktop.

To Tim...it's not that things are feebler or have disappeared for any
reason...there actually is a reason and that the benefits of the
re-write of KDE aren't apparent yet and so if you expected to see
progress at this point, you will be disappointed. I am however, keeping
the faith.

Craig

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