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Re: Reporting 'missing' features
by xddule on Friday 07/Mar/2008, @00:58

My intention are not to denote any of KDE hard work, but look from the user side, just for the moment, do not try to sell something with the nice shinny package as a super new flips with a bit extra peanuts into, but taste exactly the same, or even worse.

As you know, most Linux users use Linux professionally, not for having fun or playing tetris, and we all have a big srceens, at home my 'smallest' monitor is "17 which gives me 1280x1024, and 22pixels panel is very irritating to have, so i have 48pixs in my kde3.5.8 and i am using my monitor 90degre rotated, yeah cuz i want to have as more vertical side as i can use, hint here? And i am forced to use auto hide feature. Second mostly i am a keyboard user, i like to start everything from the keyboard, not to track my mouse somewhere and then i need to think where i should locate terminal shortcut, and than to wait about 30seconds to appear and even more. In those 30secodns i write, let say fair one line of the code. So i waste my one line of the code for using the super plasma effect, which by the way not working correctly, and you sells me that my 4% of the screen is not important, but 30 seconds i can give up?

Let's be fair here and say, kde 4.0 is a bit distracted, and gone in the way win vista has been gone, to disappoint the user which are with them since qt 1.4 and the first kde release. So i am ready to give more than 13 years using kde because i am disappointed with kde 4.0 and i am not the only one, and if you wanna gain some younger people to use kde, then sell it under windows, because i will stick me on 3.5.

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Re: Reporting 'missing' features
by Steve on Tuesday 18/Mar/2008, @08:05

Agree with KDE 4.0 being 'distracted' and going the way of Vista'. I installed KUBUNTU with KDE 4 and couldn't get past the new K environment to actually test the UBUNTU side.
KDE 4 is clearly not as pleasent to use as KDE 3.X, in fact I would describe the experience as incredibly frustrating, to the point where, like xddule, I am seriously considering pitching KDE to the rubbish heap. Perhaps we can fork KDE, keep the 3.X branch alive and make evololutionary changes to improve it rather than revolutionary changes which fail to deliver.
The lesson? If it is not ready DON'T RELEASE IT!

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