Re: [kde-linux] Installing KDE4 on Sid

Dale wrote:
david wrote:
Dale wrote:
david wrote:
Werner Joss wrote:

p.s.:
it seems there are not many people on this list who have already switched to
kde4, thus few responses on this.

And the more I read about it and look at it on the kde.org website, the
less I see any reason whatsoever to use it.

I ran into a issue and had to remove it from mine. Couldn't change the
login screen and make it accept the changes. Worked fine after removing
KDE4 tho.

Try it under VirtualBox - then when it goes south, your main system
still works. ;-)

Everything still worked fine, it just wouldn't let me have a clock
instead of the blue KDE gear thingy. I like my clock on there.

My clock works in KDE3, right where I like it.

It looked cool tho.

I think that's the real reason behind KDE4. Mac OS X and Windows Vista
look cooler than KDE3, so we must out-cool them!

All the eye candy the kde.org site raves about so much is something I've
hated for years. Transparency in windows and/or applications just makes
everything harder to read and increases screen clutter, for instance.

I don't disagree with the migration to a better underlying graphics kit,
but that could have been done without screwing with the UI or tossing in
what look to me like pretty poor design ideas ... I think that *KDE4
would be finished, out the door and stable* already if they hadn't
decided with mangle the UI ... Oh, well. Will a KDE update replacing
KDE3 with KDE4 someday force itself on me? If so, methinks Microsoft is
having a lot of unintended influence on the open source community!

I already had to lock my samba versions because of the maintainer's
refusal to allow people to use unauthenticated shares without causing a
kernel panic. Microsoft is not the only software place around that can
be characterized as arrogant.

It seems to me that KDE is trying to improve

I don't think they're trying to "improve." They're just trying to LOOK
like everybody else. Grr. FWIW, I don't consider the things from the
other OSes that they're imitating to be improvements in those OSes, either.

just like everybody else is
doing. M$, Apple and everybody else does it so why not KDE? I always
thought it was M$ that stole from Linux tho. Tab browsing came to mind
on that. Linux been doing that for ages then finally M$ grows a pair
and gets it too.

Actually, I first met tabs as part of OS/2's desktop environment.

I'm looking forward to it going stable and having all the features
enabled/working myself.

Yah, about KDE4.5, I think. ;-)

--
David
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