Poll - Happy with KDE 4 or not?
Yes, I should have mentioned that you can increase the size of the Information Panel by dragging its border to the left, and the size of the "thumbnail" will grow right along with it. There are very few things you can do in KDE 3.5 that cannot be done in KDE 4.3.
MX-14; 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae kernel using 4GB RAM
2.4GHz AMD Athlon 4600+
NVidia GeForce 6150 LE; 304.121 Display Driver
You didn't slow down because you're old; you're old because you slowed down.
2.4GHz AMD Athlon 4600+
NVidia GeForce 6150 LE; 304.121 Display Driver
You didn't slow down because you're old; you're old because you slowed down.
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KrispyKritter
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blackbelt_jones
My ambivalence towaqrd KDE4 is epic. It makes a complete fool out of me. I'm pretty sure you can find me somewhere on the web expressing every possible opinion about KDE4, positive and negative. The bottom line is that KDE4 is the most powerful and flexible Destop environment I know, but the most EFFICIENT DEsktop I know is what I get when I integrate KDE3 into fluxbox. KDE4 doesn't work as well for me.
So I'm happy to have KDE4, unhappy about losing KDE3. Thank heaven for the trinity project, which is presenting us with a shot at a middle way.
So I'm happy to have KDE4, unhappy about losing KDE3. Thank heaven for the trinity project, which is presenting us with a shot at a middle way.
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nlyric
That gve me a chuckle on a Wed morning. thanks SBSilverBear wrote:Item 1 was that with a 1366x768 widescreen format, I needed vertical space. So the "panel" plasmoid went further left than anticapitalista. (No dig intended, anti! You know yer "my man!" I just can't resist hamming up a forum post.)
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Louie1961
No...some things still do not work. And this isn't a 3.5.10 versus 4.4 rant. In theory I like KDE 4 better, if it worked 100%. But there are things that don't work. Like Krfb/KRDC....these are KDE apps, and they don't work with compositing enabled. Huh? They couldn't figure this out and perhaps prompt me to torun off compositing to use these apps? Nope, they leave the user to figure it out on their own. Perhaps a bug? There are a few other apps that don't work so well with KDE 4- had problems getting skype to work, and it worked fine with KDE 3.5.10, same for Crossover office. Like the concept of KDE 4 but it seems like it is not fully baked yet.
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benny_fletch
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Louie1961
When I install crossover, the menu entries it creates don't "do" anything. see the attached for the fix I found I have to do.
http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthrea ... =crossover
http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthrea ... =crossover
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crb3
Do not want. Either it ain't there yet, or I'm not where it's at yet.
Over a decade ago, I installed KDE1.0 on a Red Hat Linux 5.2 system. I was delighted with how much easier it was to work with than fvwm95. Of course, most of what it allowed me to control was Konsole xterms, but much of what I do on a computer involves jstar, mc and ytree in an xterm. KDE1.1 on a RHL 6.2 box was an improved version of the same setup: buttons and icons down below, desktops-pager among them, with a separate taskbar up above so I was one click away from whatever window I wanted next no matter how deep in its desktop page it was.
KDE3.x, in MEPIS3.3, MEPISlite, MEPIS6.5, MEPIS7 and MEPIS8, allows for the taskbar functionality to be split out of the bottom bar and put up top where I want it, which is good because by now that kind of layout is as ingrained in my work habits as the WordStar control-codes (I'm left-handed and I started computing with CP/M, whaddaya expect -- which is why jstar is the editor for me). With KDE on MEPIS, I've had the continuity of function which I need.
KDE4, though... Maybe I didn't search around enough. Most of what Warren put together for MEPIS8.5 was familiar-like-home and that's great, but my taskbar was missing and I couldn't figure out a way to bring it back. Its substitute is like a trash-compactor where I wanted a shelf. Am I missing something here -- is this covered in a HOWTO somewhere, how to get "real external taskbar" functionality? Absent that, we'll be giving KDE4 a pass.
Over a decade ago, I installed KDE1.0 on a Red Hat Linux 5.2 system. I was delighted with how much easier it was to work with than fvwm95. Of course, most of what it allowed me to control was Konsole xterms, but much of what I do on a computer involves jstar, mc and ytree in an xterm. KDE1.1 on a RHL 6.2 box was an improved version of the same setup: buttons and icons down below, desktops-pager among them, with a separate taskbar up above so I was one click away from whatever window I wanted next no matter how deep in its desktop page it was.
KDE3.x, in MEPIS3.3, MEPISlite, MEPIS6.5, MEPIS7 and MEPIS8, allows for the taskbar functionality to be split out of the bottom bar and put up top where I want it, which is good because by now that kind of layout is as ingrained in my work habits as the WordStar control-codes (I'm left-handed and I started computing with CP/M, whaddaya expect -- which is why jstar is the editor for me). With KDE on MEPIS, I've had the continuity of function which I need.
KDE4, though... Maybe I didn't search around enough. Most of what Warren put together for MEPIS8.5 was familiar-like-home and that's great, but my taskbar was missing and I couldn't figure out a way to bring it back. Its substitute is like a trash-compactor where I wanted a shelf. Am I missing something here -- is this covered in a HOWTO somewhere, how to get "real external taskbar" functionality? Absent that, we'll be giving KDE4 a pass.