[mdlug] KDE 4

[Stan Green]

I run KDE 3.5 on my desktop and on my wife's PC I have KDE 4.x. (It is SUSE 11, 
which does not ship with KDE 3.5.)

The one major thing that was a huge pain was no desktop icons! In KDE 3.5 I can 
create a symbolic link on the desktop. This way she can open her documents and 
not care where they are on the file system. (She modifies a few documents on a 
regular basis.)  I did find a work-around by making the desktop display the 
contents of a folder. I them put the symbolic links in the folder and I have 
desktop icons back. I guess Segio did not get rid of all the desktop icon code. 

Stan


On Monday 28 June 2010 11:33:18 pm Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Jim Broughton wrote:
> > 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?
>
> project leader Aaron Segio is a pathological liar, and I will never trust
> ANYTHING associated with this man.
>
> For instance, the KDE team propaganda, lead by Segio, state
> that KDE4 was a complete rewrite from the bottom up -- this
> being the excuse for normal desktop interactions which we have
> all come to know and love in KDE 3.5..
>
> ...and yet segio (too cool for capital letters) stated on his
> blog words to the effect of "finally, after a lot of work, I've
> ripped all the desktop icons code out of KDE4"
>
> What code is there to "rip out" if their story that they
> were "building from the ground up" were true, and they were
> not re-using KDE 3.5 code.
>
> Additionally, many of the photos that the man PUTS ON HIS
> OWN website indicate a total jack*** with a completely
> flippant attitude.
>
> KDE is becoming the NetBSD of the Linux world. :-(
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