By taskbar do you mean Task Manager? If so add another panel at the top of the screen, right click on it, add widgets, add the task Manager widget. You need to delete it from the bottom panel, if you do not want it there.
In general I have not found much of anything that could not be done with KDE4 that I did with KDE3, just needs to be done differently.
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I couldn't vote in the poll because I stayed with Mepis 8. I still have it installed.
I also have KDE 4.5.2 in Linux Mint and PCLinuxOS.
I really thought that I wouldn't like KDE4, and I was planning to use Xfce in Mepis 11. But in almost no time at all, once I started using it in Mint and PCLOS, I fell in love with KDE4.
I still log into Mepis 8 quite often -- at least once or twice a week.
But, if the old KDE and KDE4 were both offered as options, I would definitely go with KDE4, at this point. No question about it.
I also have KDE 4.5.2 in Linux Mint and PCLinuxOS.
I really thought that I wouldn't like KDE4, and I was planning to use Xfce in Mepis 11. But in almost no time at all, once I started using it in Mint and PCLOS, I fell in love with KDE4.
I still log into Mepis 8 quite often -- at least once or twice a week.
But, if the old KDE and KDE4 were both offered as options, I would definitely go with KDE4, at this point. No question about it.
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Eadwine Rose
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Yes I am happy with 8.5 kde4. But only AFTER getting my new system.
The previous one 2.67Ghz and 1Gig worth of ram wasn't strong enough to deal proper with things like Dolphins previews that load when you even hovered over files.
That is a pet peeve of mine.. mepis is getting too heavy now to use on older computers.
In any case, my point is: linux needs to stop following windows in that aspect.
And no, installing older mepis versions isn't going to do much good. I tried going back to 8.0 and failed on installing certain things. Dependency issues or whatever, I did not want to deal with that.
The previous one 2.67Ghz and 1Gig worth of ram wasn't strong enough to deal proper with things like Dolphins previews that load when you even hovered over files.
That is a pet peeve of mine.. mepis is getting too heavy now to use on older computers.
In any case, my point is: linux needs to stop following windows in that aspect.
And no, installing older mepis versions isn't going to do much good. I tried going back to 8.0 and failed on installing certain things. Dependency issues or whatever, I did not want to deal with that.
MX-23.6_x64 July 31 2023 * 6.1.0-34amd64 ext4 Xfce 4.20.0 * 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 2700
Asus TUF B450-Plus Gaming UEFI * Asus GTX 1050 Ti Nvidia 535.216.01 * 2x16Gb DDR4 2666 Kingston HyperX Predator
Samsung 870EVO * Samsung S24D330 & P2250 * HP Envy 5030
Asus TUF B450-Plus Gaming UEFI * Asus GTX 1050 Ti Nvidia 535.216.01 * 2x16Gb DDR4 2666 Kingston HyperX Predator
Samsung 870EVO * Samsung S24D330 & P2250 * HP Envy 5030
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carlops
That is easily switched off. KDE4 can run really light. You can tweak the living daylights out of it if you wish. Heck, you can even resort to a netbook interface. So I don't believe that KDE4 runs worse than KDE3. In fact, I run it on a netbook and an old laptop, and it runs fine.Eadwine Rose wrote: The previous one 2.67Ghz and 1Gig worth of ram wasn't strong enough to deal proper with things like Dolphins previews that load when you even hovered over files.
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Eadwine Rose
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I know it is easily switched off and I found how to after a lot of irritation. Fact is: I hate having to pick and pry to make things run faster. I have the new to linux user in mind, who wants a system that runs, not one that crawls on a still decent machine in my eyes 
MX-23.6_x64 July 31 2023 * 6.1.0-34amd64 ext4 Xfce 4.20.0 * 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 2700
Asus TUF B450-Plus Gaming UEFI * Asus GTX 1050 Ti Nvidia 535.216.01 * 2x16Gb DDR4 2666 Kingston HyperX Predator
Samsung 870EVO * Samsung S24D330 & P2250 * HP Envy 5030
Asus TUF B450-Plus Gaming UEFI * Asus GTX 1050 Ti Nvidia 535.216.01 * 2x16Gb DDR4 2666 Kingston HyperX Predator
Samsung 870EVO * Samsung S24D330 & P2250 * HP Envy 5030
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Fredo
Yes, very happy.
On the 2 computers i have no problems. I am not much on the Forum, helping the daughter in her new house, must by done before december...
The Mac i dont use anymore, can not run Mepis on it because the screenresolution, i have done what i can to find and configure 1680x 1050, but no results. " Have tried other distros on it, and its not like Mepis, PCLinuxOS was best "
For the moment i want see this machine in years !
For the rest... OK
Greetings to all,
Fredo.
On the 2 computers i have no problems. I am not much on the Forum, helping the daughter in her new house, must by done before december...
The Mac i dont use anymore, can not run Mepis on it because the screenresolution, i have done what i can to find and configure 1680x 1050, but no results. " Have tried other distros on it, and its not like Mepis, PCLinuxOS was best "
For the moment i want see this machine in years !
For the rest... OK
Greetings to all,
Fredo.
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mepnoob2005
thumbsdown to kde4
I wrote my first post in this thread in july...back then I gave it a thumbs up ....
it's now october and I have decided that kde4 is slower than kde3, unstable compared to kde3, digikam and dolphin are both superslow at downloading pictures from my camera ( and I mean glacially slow, the batteries will dies before you get a dozen pictures downloaded. Like 3-5 minutes per picture maybe more) I would like to change my vote to NO as I like kde3 a lot better....
so thumbs down on kde4 in a lot of areas, speed and stability mostly....boot time is slower...but on the other hand I want to keep kde4 even tho it is the slower and less reliable of the two versions only because I think maybe one day it will be as good as kde3. It (kde4) is definately nowhere near as good as kde3....just saying what a lot of us must be thinking
to kde4
my latest computer....
msi KA790GX board, athlon 7750 x2 64 bit cpu, 4 gb ddr3 1066 ram, ati onboard hdmi graphics with sgfxi installed driver, in a coolermaster case, 42 inch lcd hd tv for monitor....it rocks! great with kde3 but barely acceptable with kde4 and it won't download my pics properly....
it's now october and I have decided that kde4 is slower than kde3, unstable compared to kde3, digikam and dolphin are both superslow at downloading pictures from my camera ( and I mean glacially slow, the batteries will dies before you get a dozen pictures downloaded. Like 3-5 minutes per picture maybe more) I would like to change my vote to NO as I like kde3 a lot better....
so thumbs down on kde4 in a lot of areas, speed and stability mostly....boot time is slower...but on the other hand I want to keep kde4 even tho it is the slower and less reliable of the two versions only because I think maybe one day it will be as good as kde3. It (kde4) is definately nowhere near as good as kde3....just saying what a lot of us must be thinking
to kde4my latest computer....
msi KA790GX board, athlon 7750 x2 64 bit cpu, 4 gb ddr3 1066 ram, ati onboard hdmi graphics with sgfxi installed driver, in a coolermaster case, 42 inch lcd hd tv for monitor....it rocks! great with kde3 but barely acceptable with kde4 and it won't download my pics properly....