> But that was then, 6 months ago, this is now.

Yep.. That's true. 4.2 RC seems to be better. Installing the RC was my choice.
Available as an option. It wasn't a forced choice... Or was it since the need
for improvements would compel using the BETAs and RCs of promised improvements
from 4.1 which are in fact there.

However, Konqueror is still disfunctional. Which means I'm using Firefox which
means, instead of using KDE based apps like media players and document
viewers, I'm using GTK based stuff when surfing the net. If I wanted to use
Gnome I would be writing this in Evolution. But I love KDE and I'm writing
this in Kontackt / Kmail.

I still can't extend a panel across two screens. I actually would rather not
live with plasmoids on my desktop. Once applications are running they simply
take up resources, needlessly. Nice ideas, but nothing particularly new. Its
been around since Internet Explorer 4 and the Active Desktop. And if I would
have wanted Super Karamba I would have installed Super Karamba. On panels,
brilliant. The folder view while almost there suffers, for me from one
critical flaw. A simple thing really. Not a bug per se. But, if you right
click on it and then look for the run command in the context menu... It ain't
there. It kinda makes it unuseable.

I don't like the fat start menu. I don't like it Windows. I don't like it in
KDE. I am using the traditional menu. But guess what. No run command. In the
traditional menu. And the list goes on.

KDE news ticker is simply not as functinoal as it predecesor in 3.5. It does
not even include the list of RSS feeds that were there in 3.5

There are many many improvements in 4.2. True enough. And IMHO KDE 4.x is
getting past the BETA stage of development and just about at the RC level.
However there are still a lot of rough edges when it comes to what one expects
from KDE and from a modern desktop environment regarding usablitily and
functionality.

Eli