KDE 4.7.0 Released 212
jrepin writes "KDE 4.7 releases provide many new features and improved stability and performance. Lots of visual polishing took place with an update to the Oxygen icons, and improved consistency between panel items such as clock and notification areas. The window manager KWin brings a new shadow system and can now run on OpenGL ES supporting hardware, making it better suited for mobile devices. Network management widget is much improved. Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the addition of breadcrumbs to the Kickoff application launcher. Kontact groupware solution rejoins the rest of the KDE software, with increased stability, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. Dolphin file manager has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. Marble the virtual globe now has voice navigation support and a map creation wizard. Gwenview image viewer now offers the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. Digikam photo management app brings face detection and recognition."
Gnome (Score:2)
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You can use both (Score:2)
Personally I've had the same Enlightenment desktop theme since 1997 but have E17 at home.
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your professional is another mans clown show
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your professional is another mans clown show
Or another child's Fisher Price toy [guidebookgallery.org] .
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KDE has traditionally cared more for eye candy over usability and it shows in the amount of clutter in the UI. Advanced settings mixed with basic settings on so on. It produces a desktop which is intimidating and inaccessible to new users because there is no direction compared to responding behaviour in GNOME, or OS X, or even Windows. Even power users don't need all that crap in their face, and even if they did it would be better to shift it off into a power tool for their be
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Clown show is better. Shit is just popping out the sides like you have 22 clowns in a 20-clown car. GNOME is just one sad, fat clown turning his pockets inside out.
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Even power users don't need all that crap in their face, and even if they did it would be better to shift it off into a power tool for their benefit.
While GNOME cuts too deep sometimes [...]
You're brushing off a crucial difference: in KDE, I pretty much always can disable/hide/remove the "all that crap." In the end, making out of the desktop precisely what I need or want.
If GNOME has removed or added something, one is forced to use some quirks and tricks for as long as the developers do not change their mind. It got much better after advent of Ubuntu, but still at times I want GNOME to spary "all that crap in [my] face" - instead of the "beauty is skin deep" it often present.
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It produces a desktop which is intimidating and inaccessible to new users
I don't think there are that many new computer users out there. Maybe it's time to change the assumption that everyone wants or needs welded on training wheels.
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Users of all levels can easily be accommodated b
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This is what usually drives me screaming from KDE, I just want crap to work at a reasonable level out of the box, I am not 14, this is not 1995, and I have much better things to do than spend a bunch of effort removing "all this crap" or spend an hour digging through a forum, just to have a sane desktop experience.
I thought we had this GUI thing nailed
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KDE's motd isn't "The user is a idiot" as is the case with gnome.
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Perhaps it's not as prevalent but it does exist in KDE as well. Mind that I was dedicated KDE user after 3.4 hooked me. I stuck with it until 4.4.something, or about a year ago on Debian. I installed a second video card and KDE4 lost its mind and barfed widgets, apps, and desktop backgrounds everywhere. I dumped it in short order, tried GNOME which coped better with the setup only by a matter of degree. I then gave XFCE4 a spin and it handles my Zaphod heads independent desktops like a champ. Session
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a) your pet bug has actually probably been fixed: there was much work on multi -desktops
b) The size of KDE?? Uhhh, it is modular now.your download is probably smaller than it ever was in the KDE3 days.
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I keep seeing people post these kinds of attacks on KDE, yet they are never followed up with any substantial explanation of what the clutter and bloat actually is. I guess compared to GNOME, where having two checkboxes in a single window is considered advanced and confusing, KDE might look "cluttered". Personally, I like being able to actually do things with my computer. Every other OS lets you do that, why shouldn't Linux?
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The way things in the KDE world are done, soon you'd be most likely able to configure your desktop to look exactly like Unity if you like, without that being the default or only choice.
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Re hidden plasmoids: Some people prefer and use the "show desktop"-button. The rest of us puts plasmoids in the panel, where it is visible all the time (or however you like it.)
If you don't like krunner, don't use it. I find it incredible useful. I use it for math, unit conversion and program launching all the time, plus the occasional shutdown as well. For me, it's the feature of KDE I use the most, and one of the killer features.
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Re hidden plasmoids: Some people prefer and use the "show desktop"-button. The rest of us puts plasmoids in the panel, where it is visible all the time (or however you like it.)
Or we use multiple desktops (CTRL F1-F4 per default)
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At the same time they do allow you to put anything there like in the Win95 days.
The Plasmoids are a flexible way of presenting helper applications, it's realy up to the individual where he wants to park them or how he initiates them, with exceptions there's certainly no need to have them clutter the desktop.
On my system krunner is taking 24,472 Kb, I can't possibly imagine what you are doing with it to get this high in
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You could just as much call Ubuntu's Unity fiasco "pulling a Gnome Shell". Realistically both Unity AND Gnome Shell suck, and suck bad. For the time being I'm still running classic mode. When that option is gone, I'm off to Xfce or KDE - or god help me even Windows 7 before I bother with Unity or Gnome Shell.
It's "pulling a Unity" because both of them took a perfectly fine, valid, and working interface, and screwed it up in the name of "change". Sometimes developers get so attached to the idea that thin
Each major release is taking longer (Score:3, Insightful)
Each release takes longer before it becomes useful. KDE 1.1 was working just right for me. So was KDE 2.3. KDE 3 did not really mature until 3.3 or 3.4. KDE 4 is just now getting there, after 8 minor releases. Some things are still working better in KDE 3, or in KDE 1 for that.
Don't get me wrong, I like KDE. But we are paying a huge price for "progress".
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Did they return the multiple desktop and individual backgrounds? Locking Apps to specific Desktops?
No they haven't and they're still pushing Dolphin as the File manager instead of sticking with Konq, which worked quite well for that and browsing the web. Hell I found it quite useful when accessing an ftp site that I had write privs as it allowed me to simply copy files from the system to the server.
As a 3.5 user, I would have preferred them to simply bug fix and transition 3.5 over to QT4. Some of the rest
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I have multiple desktops with individual backgrounds. It also appears that I can lock apps to a desktop (icon->advanced->special applications settings). But I agree with you on Dolphin.
This is on KDE 4.6.
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Thank you for posting this. I'm not sure if you were trying to be sarcastic, but it's certainly non-obvious how to achieve different wallpapers for each desktop.
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The confusion arises because there's a small paradigm change. You now have activities, which are more generic. The idea is that you run an activity for each particular task you want to accomplish, therefore each activity may have completely different settings and even provide you with completely different user interfaces. And in that context a virtual desktop becomes just a bit of extra space within an activity.
Now you may still say want a wallpaper per desktop anyway, but that's not any more sensible than
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To be honest, after reading your first first paragraph, I'm still having a hard time comprehending it, probably because the idea of an "activity" seems to be an abstraction that I am unfamiliar with. The last sentence "And in that context a virtual desktop becomes just a bit of extra space within an activity" definitely loses me. My gut is that the abstraction of an "activity" is not something that should be exposed to the user. You're going to lose 95% of your audience.
Most users of KDE I've encountered
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At first you could still use konqueror as a file manager but then they "fixed" it so that konqueror just uses the same kpart as dolphin. And it sucks. Doesn't refresh half the time and when it does it flashes your focus back to the top. Konqeror didn't do that and I loved it.
Konqueror has always sucked as a dedicated web browser though. I've always wondered why they killed the best file browser ever made in favor of the worst web browser ever made
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Yikes I've always found Dolphin slow, crash-prone, and I hate the fact 1-click launches. For me its the weak point of KDE. Try ROX.
Phillip.
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All of this, and ksirtet.
Re:Each major release is taking longer (Score:5, Informative)
Did they return the multiple desktop and individual backgrounds? Locking Apps to specific Desktops?
Yes [kde.org].
No they haven't and they're still pushing Dolphin as the File manager instead of sticking with Konq, which worked quite well for that and browsing the web. Hell I found it quite useful when accessing an ftp site that I had write privs as it allowed me to simply copy files from the system to the server.
Yes they have. Konqeror is still there, and can be set as the default file manager if you want.
As a 3.5 user, I would have preferred them to simply bug fix and transition 3.5 over to QT4. Some of the restructuring was needed but the complete change to the UI was totally unneeded. Instead they had to copy MS and Vista and loose the one feature that made KDE stand out for me, which was the configurable desktops, background images and locking apps to specific desktops.
As I said, all these features are available, accessible, and are arguably better than they were in KDE 3. I honestly don't know how you haven't been able to discover them.
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How the heck could KDE4(.0) copy Vista?
As for your desktop woes, I think your problem is that you are using Desktop for the usecase Activities were designed to. If you instead of multiple desktop use multiple activities, you can have your wallpapers and your application configured per activity. As a bonus, you could even have some application on more than one (or all) activities, if that makes sense for you.
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Did they return the multiple desktop and individual backgrounds? Locking Apps to specific Desktops?
Others have already explained how to do the first, and as for the second:
While you are at it, you'll see that you can set any attribute of that application's windows from here, even some that you most likely didn't even know existed.
No they haven't and they're still pushing Dolphin as the File manager instead of sticking with Konq, which worked quite well for that and browsing the web. Hell I found it quite useful when accessing an ftp site that I had write privs as it allowed me to simply copy files from the system to the server.
I don't see what your problem with Dolphin and FTP is [kde.org]:
Is FTP access possible? Dolphin uses the KIO slaves like Konqueror and hence can access all common protocols like ftp:// [ftp] home:/, file:/, system:/, media:/, remote:/, applications:/, sftp:/, fish:/ and smb:/.
As a 3.5 user, I would have preferred them to simply bug fix and transition 3.5 over to QT4. Some of the restructuring was needed but the complete change to the UI was totally unneeded. Instead they had to copy MS and Vista and loose the one feature that made KDE stand out for me, which was the configurable desktops, background images and locking apps to specific desktops.
All those things still exist, and they are also some of the reasons I use it
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Locking applications to specific desktops is easily done with window-specific kwin settings, in pretty much the same way as in 3.5. Right click the window title bar, select Advanced > Special application settings. Who modded this up?
Konqueror is still around, still maintained and improved, and stil
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Spaces is a terrible implementation of multiple desktops. As for binding apps to desktops, kwin allows you to set rules which will force apps to launch in a specified desktop.
Also, you can have an activity per desktop, and thus a background per desktop.
The parent has clearly not used KDE for 3 years, and has no clue what he is talking about.
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Spaces is a terrible implementation of multiple desktops.
And you back your claims how exactly? Or is it just sufficient to blurt something out?
I switched from KDE 3.5.x to OS X 10.6 on the desktop at the end of 2007. Save a few glitches with Microsoft apps, there was absolutely nothing about Spaces that came up short in any way compared to KDE. Things have only got better since.
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It was three and a half years ago. Get over it.
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It was three and a half years ago. Get over it.
Count me in his camp. KDE4 is poop. I still use KDE 3.5, the Trinity KDE project is proof enough that a substantial minority of KDE users feel as we do.
I dispute the notion that it's "progress" to copy what everyone else is doing, but implement it with your own little twist.
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"I dispute the notion that it's "progress" to copy what everyone else is doing, but implement it with your own little twist."
How is KDE 3.5 any different? KDE 3.5 copied Windows 2000 and KDE 4 is copying Vista. Aside from superficial things like that, the KDE way is just as present in KDE 4 as in KDE 3.5. For the things that have changed, and you don't like, you very easily can change it to be like KDE 3.5: the K menu, the desktop, the file manager can all be configured to be like KDE 3.5. You can even
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For the things that have changed, and you don't like, you very easily can change it to be like KDE 3.5
Almost, and for me almost isn't good enough.
LK
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But thankfully, the KDE devs are not wedded to the 90s, and those of us who want a modern desktop still get one. Isn't free software wonderful?
Also, you say you tried a few releases. my guess is you haven't tries in a year. Which is an enormous amount of dev time. So you maybe should keep trying :)
Re:Each major release is taking longer (Score:4, Insightful)
> Also, you say you tried a few releases. my guess is you haven't tries in a year. Which is an enormous amount of dev time. So you maybe should keep trying :)
You see that is what many FOSS devs (specially Linux Desktop devs (specially KDE devs)) don't seem to get.
Trying out a desktop takes time and effort. Most people have better things to do in life than "trying out KDE/Gnome/XFCE/etc every 3/6/12 months" to see which are the latest (mostly useless) desktop new effects and integration gimmicks.
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You see that is what many FOSS devs (specially Linux Desktop devs (specially KDE devs)) don't seem to get.
You seem to think that FOSS devs are out to get users, when in fact they are out to make the best software they can, regardless of time to release and user base uptake. For people that want timed releases or that want its pet peeve solved/implemented without the will to do it or pay to get it done, that is undesirable, for people that are willing to either use "old", proved versions or follow along with experimental code for software that strives for excellence, this is great. To each its own.
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Uhhh. Nope, that is GNOME (or apple). KDE still has a desktop which feels like a desktop. The mobile/tablet thing is just an option: on a small screen, I prefer the UI designed for it, and on large screens, the classical desktop UI.
I also note that although you haven't tried the desktop in two years, you still feel justified in saying horrible things about the work people are doing for free. I guess the recent article about people behaving like psychopaths on the internet was not too far off the mark.
BTW, y
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Half a minute to generate a few thousand
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Yet other people report stellar performance on low-ends, so it's not clear-cut what is going on --- it could be a defective driver, some application going haywire on you, or a distro problem. I don't own a low-end computer (an Athlon64 is my current lowest-end), and on these KDE works just fine. The 1Gb RAM machine is struggling with the number of facebook tabs my wife wants to put on it, though.
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The only mistake they made with 4 was treating 4.0 as a release. If they had waited longer for an actual release, or been serious in indicating to people that it was really 4.0 tech preview, then a lot of the bad feelings towards KDE 4 would not have arisen.
GTK integration? (Score:2)
How's that coming?
As a Firefox user who's children love Flash games, that's a /sine qua non/.
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As a Firefox user who's children love Flash games, that's a /sine qua non/.
What doesn't work for you? My daughter plays flash games on my home PC, which is Fedora 14 w/ KDE 4.6 and Firefox. I use the leigh123linux repo for Flash updates.
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What doesn't work for you?
Nothing, since I use GNOME 2.32. But v3.0 and (since I use Ubuntu) Unity approacheth.
It's been a long time (Mandrake 7.0) since I used KDE, but ever since then I've consistently read of theming and font problems mixing GTK and KDE apps.
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I guess I don't notice them. There's an optional thing you can install to force KDE font preferences onto GTK apps, if you want the consistency. I don't think I've installed that on a new machine in a while though.
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How's that coming?
As a Firefox user who's children love Flash games, that's a /sine qua non/.
Integration of GNOME/GTK+ applications in KDE is very good.
http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/plasma.php
Recognizing the modular nature of KDE software and the ability to mix and match applications from many different sources, KDE has also improved the Oxygen GTK themes, making applications from GNOME (and other applications using GTK+) blend seamlessly with KDE applications in your Plasma Workspace.
It would be fair to say that integration of GNOME/GTK+ applications under the KDE SC 4.7 Plasma desktop is orders of magnitude better than integration of KDE applications under the GNOME desktop of any variety.
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Don't forget QtCurve, which I find to be considerably better than the ugly and garish Oxygen theme.
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Seconded!
Personally though, I like the clearlooks/cleanlooks style to be better than both, but...
Also, I run a very mixed desktop - half KDE, half GTK apps on top of a KDE desktop, with Metacity for my window manager. How more mixed could you get? :P
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orders of magnitude better than integration of KDE applications under the GNOME desktop of any variety.
Nope, Qt supports GTK+ themes natively so those KDE apps work and look fine under GNOME. None of this playing-nice-with-others effort came from the GNOME camp, of course.
Quit whining (Score:5, Insightful)
BTW I wonder why there is so much complaining about KDE when it comes to some minor features? Such scale is unseen in windows world. Maybe windows users don't complain so much because ms doesn't care about fixing and improving things anyway? Here you can discuss and have things fixed or even redesigned in a matter of weeks or months.
Re:Quit whining (Score:4, Insightful)
Isn't there an old quote that states that when soldiers stop complaining, they've lost hope(or something like that?
It's exactly that here: With KDE, it's possible to make change happen. Windows? No way!
So, people complain. Because it might get better.
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It is a mystery to me too. Even the mac users who obsess about the tiniest details of their holy interface are not nearly as anal as the kde3-or-death users.
And it makes particularly little sense as KDE SC4 is better in pretty much every way as KDE3. Maybe is comes from investing so much emotion in your desktop and being shown that deep down, at was not nearly as great as it could be. Perhaps linux users care more about their software than normal users, and any change is seen as a personal insult.
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We had the same issue when we changed from Office 2003 to 2007.
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luv your fine sarcasm
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BTW I wonder why there is so much complaining about KDE when it comes to some minor features? Such scale is unseen in windows world. Maybe windows users don't complain so much because ms doesn't care about fixing and improving things anyway?
Where I work we've recently started migrating from Win2k to Windows 7 and I can assure you all I hear is complaints about pretty much everything. The difference between Windows and KDE/Gnome is that windows users don't have a choice. What else are they going to use? Yeah, exactly. Basically they take whatever MS gives them and they live with it.
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you can only fix something so much before it looks like a monstrosity, kde has bypassed that point years ago, its a vomit pile of weird controls and slow performance, and why? so a nerd can tweak it out without having to open a text file?
Best Distro to try this new KDE with? (Score:2)
So let's say I did a lot of Linux back in the day, now days, I do it rarely under vmware with OSX. I've been installing (k)Ubuntu now and then again. What's the best KDE friendly distro these days (running under vmware)?
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Most distros support KDE well enough that it does not matter. Make your decision depending on what you want
openSUSE supposedly is pretty good for KDE (i run gnome) from what it see it has pretty good visualisation support (used with WMware often).
You will have to at least upgrade to tumbleweed (like testing) or factory (sid) to get 4.7 before November I suspect though.
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As much as I hate to say it, Kubuntu is the one I've had the least amount of frustration with (I've tried OpenSuSE, Fedora, and Chakra besides). There's a lot more eyes on Kubuntu and a lot more forum posts related specificly to Kubuntu, so it's easy to find answers, and Canonical does a good job of installing the basics by default (codecs, flash, binary drivers, etc.).
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KDE4.x is getting pretty good now. (Score:2, Interesting)
It's just a shame it took so long for it to evolve into a usable and stable desktop. After losing hope due to months of buggy, incomplete and lame releases that prevented me from using my computer in the same way(s) I could with 3.5.x, I actually switched to Windows 7 some 8/9 months ago.
I installed Kubuntu 11.04 yesterday, with KDE 4.6.2. I've not yet tried 4.7, but KDE4 is extremely good now. I just hope the devs begin to recognise that having revision numbers two-thirds of the way to the next major re
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that having revision numbers two-thirds of the way to the next major release is far from being an acceptable situation, and this has tarnished the reputation of KDE for quite some time to come.
Huh?
What could be wrong with KDE4.28 ?
E17/Bodhi (Score:2)
Lots of comments here comparing KDE to Gnome 2, 3, and Unity, and a couple of posts praising LXDE (which I also like). I'm surprised there are so few who have mentioned E17. I installed Bodhi Linux (Ubuntu with E17 desktop) on a netbook and have been extremely impressed:
1. Fast, low memory usage, but ... ...
2. Manages to be beautiful
3. Without being in your way.
Its "Run Everything" (equivalent to Alt-F2 run dialog) is exceptional, the menus are generally sensible, and it's easy on the eyes. I'd highly re
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Did they fix the disabled checkbox in Knetworkmanager for setting a wireless connection as system?
No, it appears not, as the box is grayed out, at least in 4.6.
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ifup is the way to go for permanent connections at the system level. Networkmanager is crappy for multi-user systems anyway.
Now if you are a single user, well, what is wrong with "connect automatically"??
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Not disabled on Arch Linux with kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement 1:git20110713-1
I'm running 4.6.95 still
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Such questions are better posed to bugzilla. See bug 204340 [kde.org], which will show you that this was fixed between 4.6 and 4.7.
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Some people can't run wires through walls.
Grow up.
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BMO
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You are kidding, right? Wireless connections are inherently portable and therefore transient, they are not always available. This is in fact the whole point of a wireless connection, that it is NOT always on.
No, the point is that you don't need a wire. You do realize that some people have their entire homes/offices setup with wireless as they don't need to run wires and wireless is fast enough for then, right?
Perhaps you only use laptops with wireless connections, but your use case does not describe the br
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And it has a very transparent GUI for configurations.
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This is in fact the whole point of a wireless connection, that it is NOT always on.
You mean like cellphone, wireless keyboard and mouse and of course GPS. You really nailed it. /sarcasm
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Try searching their bugzilla.. in this case, that would give you bug 204340, which is indeed fixed and should be part of 4.7.
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Short answer: yes. Longer answer: yeah, it's pretty usable, actually seems more polished and complete than KDE 3.5 was. I was a hold-out, too, lest you accuse me of being some KDE 4 fanboi.
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Some mfgrs will. Why? Because it's generally loads better than Windows on underperforming hardware. Sure, gaming performance might be a little less, and benchmarks might not show it, but as far as overall responsiveness, Linux beats Windows any day.
Also, if Meego takes off, there will be an opportunity to throw a KDE or Gnome front-end on your Meego tablet, either aftermarket or stock. And it just might be an improvement there.
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It may surprise you to know that the majority of the world [w3schools.com] is not yet using 1080p monitors.
That said...nobody's forcing you to view every page fullscreen. Also, with a near-1080p monitor myself, I could care less if the screen is filled entirely from left-to-right. That actually reduces readability of most text.
Ever see a newspaper print its text all the way accross the page? No, they use many smaller columns to break-up the text. Since the website is not printed on paper, it's somewhat irrelevant if th
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It's a valid complain, but apparently not easy to fix. Why aren't website designs fluid, so that they scale to to the browser window? Mostly because support for the table-bit of CSS 2.1support is still broken in many modern browsers, I hear. Which makes it hard to get that holy-grail 2/3-column design-with-top-and-button that web designers love.
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Your link tells me that >85% have _more than_ 1024 horizontal pixels. Include all those that have 1024 (which is still 25% wider than 800), you got notreason for 800 pixel site width.
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The human eye can best read lines between 60 and 80 characters long. Trying to read longer lines is fatiguing.
Now I agree that a fixed pixel width is not the way to achieve the desired effect, but you really don't want to be reading 200 character long lines.
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? Mine are still there. Open the desktop settings and switch it to "Folder View" and/or add one or more Folder View widgets yourself. You can also drag application icons from the launcher to the desktop.
Re:Personal review. (Score:4, Insightful)
conclusion:
it's pretty but it's not exactly the same as GNOME 2.x so I don't like it, and I can't be bothered to type trivial questions into Google.
FTFY.
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my biggest complaint is that they took away the desktop icons. it's a big deal. i have files on my desktop that are fast and easy to access and they took those away from me! i searched a good half our trying to find how to restore them but low and behold, it's not just a configuration, they removed that functionality completely. if you are about to say, "hey! you cant criticize, Gnome 3 does that too!" i would like to reiterate i'm using Gnome 2.x for that same reason.
Right click Desktop -> Desktop Settings. Change Layout from Desktop to Folder View (it defaults to $HOME so change it to $HOME/Desktop).
it's graphics accelerated but not snappy. i expected since the graphic render system is offloaded that it would be super snappy but alas, it is NOT! opening a new file manager window or any thing else took a second, sitting there with a "busy" cursor. before you blame my hard drive, please know that i have a very high-speed SSD (cost me an arm but talked them down so i could keep the leg). even Gnome's file manager (Nautilus) renders faster and it's no slimline file manager.
Do you by chance use an Nvidia card? I find that 2D performance sucks worse than an Intel card for Kwin.
In krunner put "kwin --replace --graphicssystem=raster". I found that increased Kwin performance (especially resizing) on Nvidia at the expense of 3D apps.
Re:Personal review. (Score:5, Interesting)
> my biggest complaint is that they took away the desktop icons.
Which is why you can switch to folder view.
> it's graphics accelerated but not snappy.
It's vector graphics. Until you have built a cache of the sizes custom-rendered for your system, it takes a bit. For how long did you try KDE?
> it's really annoying to have to open eight different configuration windows
Specific examples?
I have my own problems with KDE and I am definitely not one who migrated to 4.x lightly, but your issues seem to stem from being used to Gnome and simply accepting that you can't change any settings, anyway (no, their "registry" abomination does not count).
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Hmm.
1. Desktop Icons.
Right click on desktop, select Desktop Settings. Change to "Folder View" and set place to "Desktop". Done. If there is no Folder View, then you are either are using KDE 4.0 or have botched your install of KDE.
2. File Manager Speed
I'm not sure what the complaint is about 1 second open to window time for a modern file manager.
2a. File Manager Configuration
I agree with you that Dolphin's control panel isn't the best. It's too dumbed down. There are two other KDE file managers: Konqueror (
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WTF? You cannot get a more configurable, snappy, flexible and powerful file manager than Dolphin. None exist. :)
Konqueror and Krusader would like a word with you.
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So much gray though...
Yeah, Ubuntu brown is so much more appealing...
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I guess it makes sense, but that's one of those things that makes me feel numb... like a 35mb calculator application, or a 1.2 gig file to store a 20 minute anime rip.