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 Posted: Apr 10, 2008 - 01:44 PM
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| I guess if someone finds out how to create a real menu as a plasmoid - so that one can kick that bugging kickoff menu off the screen - a lot of people would be extremely happy. |
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Posted: Apr 10, 2008 - 03:31 PM
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| It's already there. Just select "Add plasmoids" |
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Posted: Apr 10, 2008 - 06:02 PM
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| Found it. But how can I drag it to the left side of the panel? It's automatically placed at the right side and I cannot move it with the middle mouse button or in any other way. |
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Posted: Apr 10, 2008 - 09:52 PM
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h2 wrote:
The problem in commercial software is that you always have to try to justify the next release, so you change things that were totally fine.
Hopefully kde 4.1 won't follow this ridiculous course
Well, yeah I think they kinda did just exactly that. I've been running KDE4 on my Kubuntu 8.04 system, for some weeks now. I went through the 5 stages of grief:
- denial
- anger
- bargaining
- depression
- acceptance
LOL.
Actually, you just get used to it, like everything else. It works just fine.  |
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Posted: Apr 11, 2008 - 01:25 PM
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Hi
I have also tried Kde 4 on my kubuntu workstation.
It is at most disappointing for me. In the initial release you couldn't even resize the huge taskbar, now you can.
It seems to be heavy on memory too. I think it would take some time until it matures enough up to Kde 3.5.
I am happy that I will stay with my fluxbox all the time.
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Posted: Apr 18, 2008 - 01:09 PM
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@dibl: nearly the same here - but I'm still in lack of "acceptance"...
The things I still cannot solve in KDE 4.0.66:
1. How can I change the width of the panel (I prefer a 90% width)?
2. How can I use different wallpapers for the different virtual desktops?
3. How can I move icons and applets in the panel (preferably with the middle mouse button)?
4. How can I use a color gradient for the desktop background?
5. How can I use a custom desktop menu for the middle mouse button?
6. How can I use custom icon sizes in dolphin? 64 is too small, 128 too big (prefer 72 or 96).
7. How can I adjust the font size for the clock, especially for the date?
8. How do I change the gui settings for root? There's no kdesu kcontrol anymore but I'd like to have different colors and icons for windows I open as root.
9. Where can I set up the mouse wheel to switch the virtual desktops?
10. Is there a way to make the ugly frames behind the desktop icons 100% transparent?
11. Is there a way to change the color of the panel and to make it transparent (different steps)?
12. Is there a way to let the pager show the desktop wallpapers?
13. How can I activate the filter toolbar instead of the google search when using konqueror as filemanager?
14. When I use a separate panel at the top ot the screen it doesn't remeber its size. I want a tiny panel at the top (for the running apps) and a huge panel at the bottom.
15. How do I save downloads to the desktop?
16. How do I get tooltips with file previews and file information in konqueror filemanager? |
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Posted: Apr 18, 2008 - 02:09 PM
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| 11. I don't know about transparency, but color is controlled by the plasma theme. At least in 4.0.68 this can be changed in Configure Desktop (by right-clicking your wallpaper) |
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Posted: Apr 18, 2008 - 03:13 PM
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| I sure hope sidux doesn't get stinked up with KDE 4.xx yet. Still too much work to be done with it. Just my opinion, of course. |
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Posted: Apr 18, 2008 - 03:43 PM
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texasmike wrote:
I sure hope sidux doesn't get stinked up with KDE 4.xx yet. Still too much work to be done with it. Just my opinion, of course.
AFAIK, sidux will not ship any releases with kde4 yet until its stabilized and functional. |
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Posted: Apr 19, 2008 - 12:08 AM
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I've played around with KDE4 quite abit for a while and personally, I'm not sure it will ever be as functional as the current KDE3.
They seem to be moving away from what makes KDE so great but that's just my opinion. |
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Posted: Apr 19, 2008 - 04:40 AM
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shame wrote:
I've played around with KDE4 quite abit for a while and personally, I'm not sure it will ever be as functional as the current KDE3.
They seem to be moving away from what makes KDE so great but that's just my opinion.
I agree 100%
This is gonna ruin kde, this is no laughing matter. |
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Posted: May 29, 2008 - 09:07 PM
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Posted: May 29, 2008 - 10:06 PM
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| I think KDE4 is best left to virtual machines, live cd's or disposable experimental partitions for now. |
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Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 04:59 AM
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For everyone's information, experimental is in really bad shape right now:
1) Konqueror can't connect because it "lacks the http protocol"
2) Iceweasel 3 won't start as its "platform version is incompatible" |
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Posted: Jun 04, 2008 - 12:21 AM
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infinitycircuit wrote:
For everyone's information, experimental is in really bad shape right now:
1) Konqueror can't connect because it "lacks the http protocol"
2) Iceweasel 3 won't start as its "platform version is incompatible"
Both of these works for me. (Using KDE 4 from debian experimental)
But this KDE 4.1 beta is really slow on my computer just now. I think earlier KDE 4 versions worked better on Ubuntu.
KDE 4.1 (when it's released) may be borderline usable, but I'm quite sure KDE 4.2 (christmass gift?) will be the next great thing FOSS world. Yes, 3.5 is better now, but KDE 4 already wins in some categories. For example program launcher, menu and KDE 4 version of Dolphin.
Remember that KDE 4 is still very incomplete, especially the panel. KDE 4 is so moddable, so you can make 4.x to mimic 3.5 if you want. Also nVidia users are doomed with quite slow desktop just now. Hopefully nVidia can fix this. |
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