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> But that was then, 6 months ago, this is now.<br />
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> -- Rex<br />
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Yep.. That's true. 4.2 RC seems to be better. Installing the RC was my choice.<br />
Available as an option. It wasn't a forced choice... Or was it since the need<br />
for improvements would compel using the BETAs and RCs of promised improvements<br />
from 4.1 which are in fact there.<br />
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However, Konqueror is still disfunctional. Which means I'm using Firefox which<br />
means, instead of using KDE based apps like media players and document<br />
viewers, I'm using GTK based stuff when surfing the net. If I wanted to use<br />
Gnome I would be writing this in Evolution. But I love KDE and I'm writing<br />
this in Kontackt / Kmail.<br />
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I still can't extend a panel across two screens. I actually would rather not<br />
live with plasmoids on my desktop. Once applications are running they simply<br />
take up resources, needlessly. Nice ideas, but nothing particularly new. Its<br />
been around since Internet Explorer 4 and the Active Desktop. And if I would<br />
have wanted Super Karamba I would have installed Super Karamba. On panels,<br />
brilliant. The folder view while almost there suffers, for me from one<br />
critical flaw. A simple thing really. Not a bug per se. But, if you right<br />
click on it and then look for the run command in the context menu... It ain't<br />
there. It kinda makes it unuseable.<br />
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I don't like the fat start menu. I don't like it Windows. I don't like it in<br />
KDE. I am using the traditional menu. But guess what. No run command. In the<br />
traditional menu. And the list goes on.<br />
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KDE news ticker is simply not as functinoal as it predecesor in 3.5. It does<br />
not even include the list of RSS feeds that were there in 3.5<br />
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There are many many improvements in 4.2. True enough. And IMHO KDE 4.x is<br />
getting past the BETA stage of development and just about at the RC level.<br />
However there are still a lot of rough edges when it comes to what one expects<br />
from KDE and from a modern desktop environment regarding usablitily and<br />
functionality.<br />
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Eli<br />
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