[mdlug] KDE 4

[Jim Broughton]

I just recently installed Slackware 13.1 and have my second look
at the KDE 4 series desktop. I am appalled at what I see.
After 3 years thats all they have to show. I think that they should have
gone with a dual track, refining 3.5 while putting 4 into usable shape. 
While
KDE 4  looks pretty it is harder to configure than the older 3.5 series
I was used to under Slack 12.2. It lacks a lot the programs that
were available under 3.5. The default menu system just plain sucks.
I guess their objective was to dumb it down a bit for the normal user 
but at the
same time the fallout has been that a power user is left with a system that
just plain is not fun to use or configure.
I have kept in mind that Slackware does a minimal amount of
configuration work on the desktop software so that what you see is pretty
much what the KDE team released. I was so annoyed by it I downgraded
(upgraded?) my Laptop to the XFCE desktop. I will probably have to
compile/build KDE 3.5 for it.  Anyone else here using KDE 4 for
your desktop? Opinions?


Jim