First Impressions of 4.2

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Sat Jan 31 08:08:44 UTC 2009


On Saturday 31 January 2009 09:34:59 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Eli Wapniarski
>
> <eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > On Saturday 31 January 2009 08:52:30 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Eli Wapniarski
> >>
> >> <eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote:
> >> > On Friday 30 January 2009 23:06:40 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Eli Wapniarski
> >> >>
> >> >> <eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote:
> >> >> > On a Wow factor. I would have to give KDE 4.2 a Wo plus half of the
> >> >> > final w.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > :)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > There was obviously a heck of a lot of improvements made to
> >> >> > underlying code. Heck, I've even restored Konqueror as my default
> >> >> > browser. Nspluginwrapper / flash is snappier in Konqueror than in
> >> >> > Firefox. There are of course few of my favorite features still
> >> >> > missing but the result is getting more and more impressive with
> >> >> > every release.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Absolutely fantastic.
> >> >>
> >> >> Is there wallpaper per vdesktop yet?
> >> >
> >> > It would appear not. However, if you have a dual monitor system you
> >> > can have seperate wallpapers for each monitor. I know that doesn't
> >> > help much, but I thought I would mention it.
> >> >
> >> > Eli
> >>
> >> Interesting. I hope they add that feature back. Old users except it,
> >> and Gnome users don't  have it
> >
> > Is there a feature request over at bugs.kde.org?
>
> Haven't bothered yet as it is essentially a regression from 3.5. May
> have to do so if it isn't in 4.2
>
It can't hurt. Who knows (shrug)... it may actually help :).

Eli


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