Ooops, we made Linus leave : (choices and punishment)

[Eli Wapniarski]

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

> -- Rex

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 


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