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Can't wait!
by Kit on Tuesday 29/Apr/2008, @18:44

I'm really looking forward to 4.1. I tried 4.0.0/1 and found it mostly stable but lacked many of the features I've been spoiled by in KDE 3.5 (in the future maybe you shouldn't make such a good desktop environment? ;) so I haven't switched full time (though I _love_ using Okular and the 4 version of KSudoku taught me how to play and love it as well). 4.1 is supposed to have many of the missing features from 3.5 (mouse scroll wheel switching desktops was one of those little things that annoyed me but I've seen added since) so I plan on trying to move again later.

I hope KDevelop 4 is released around then as well (either its Dev's are quiet or I'm just not very observant... possibly both), since I'm hoping to convert my current project, a QtWebKit based browser, to being a full fledged KDE4 application (QTabWidget -> KTabWidget and QIcon -> KIcon I imagine will greatly help, the former for the scroll wheel switching and hover-close button, the latter for the ability to simply use the system's default icons instead of hard coding specific ones in or other ugly hacks). The tutorial's I've read on Techbase have been more so about working on applications that already are set up to use cmake and didn't really seem to cover how you'd convert from qmake (although I should admit I haven't looked very hard, trying to break things until they work is always my favorite way of learning things :P)

After reading Aaron's blog I also believe the changes to Plasma are definitely for the best; but like KDE4 itself, there's going to be growing pains before you can have the amazing final product (remember the old adages like 'Rome wasn't built in a day' ;)

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Re: Can't wait!
by Will Stephenson on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @02:01

Mouse wheel on pager works here on 4.0.4, openSUSE.

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Re: Can't wait!
by Kit on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @13:25

I remember reading about that being backported (I'm also using openSUSE, although I only have 4.0.3, although I think thats new enough), though I haven't really tried much since 4.0.0 and 4.0.1.

Next time I try moving I should take some time and write down my annoyances and any missing features I find then make sure they're documented somewhere, I'm sure theres probably a wiki page that people have already made for that (or b.k.o as a last resort). Then again I could always try my hand at implimenting the features myself (although the last time I did that another developer fixed it in SVN/CVS at around the same time I attached my patch to the bug report... curses you for stealing my thunder! :P)

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Re: Can't wait!
by Jonathan Thomas on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @13:49

Mousewheel on pager works here in Kubuntu w/ KDE 4.0.3.

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