First Impressions of 4.2

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 31 January 2009 08:08:44 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> 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 :).
>
I think it is planned.  In 4.1 Activities could have a different wallpaper 
each, but you couldn't do much with them at that time.  I haven't explored 
Activities in 4.2 yet - I'll try to get to it this weekend and tell you if 
things have moved along.

Anne
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