Fedora-9 + KDE minor issue #5

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 15:58 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008 15:49, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >> [Incidentally, has the Control Center disappeared in Fedora-9, or is
> > >> F=>Applications=>Settings=>System Settings
> > >> a replacement for it?]
> > >
> > > Yes it is.  I don't know whether other things will be added to it,
> > > though.
> >
> > While I like the Windows-like layout,
> > the individual settings, eg Desktop, seem much feebler than before.
> >
> > Actually, I find a lot of the settings in KDE-4 very strange.
> > It is as though a completely new set of people developed KDE-4
> > without ever looking at KDE-3.
> > Many of the options that used to be offered
> > seem to have disappeared, for no apparent reason.
> >
> > > For your settings, have you looked at the various files
> > > in .kde/share/config/ ?
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion,
> > but I didn't find anything relevant to my (minor) problem,
> > that while some choices, eg Konsole in Desktop 2, persist through re-boots,
> > others, eg Konsole in Desktop 1, do not.
> 
> It's hard to work out whether it's our ineptitude with the new system or just 
> that the thing we are looking for hasn't arrived yet :-)
----
there are a number of features that are simply missing on KDE-4...I
suppose it was the price of progress. The biggest thing that bothers me
is the Desktop itself...

- you can't delete files directly from the desktop, you have to use
Dolphin
- you can't jump to files on the desktop by pressing the first letter on
the keyboard.
- desktop icon alignment options are weak.

Another thing and I'm not certain that it's KDE-4 but I think it is...is
that starting applications from the taskbar isn't reliable and neither
is switching between applications by clicking on their icons in the
taskbar. I have had a few moments of seemingly hanging when switching
applications via the taskbar. At those moments, X and Plasma seem to be
using excessive cycles and have even had to force an X quit several
times since installing Fedora 9.

Yes, there are some minor annoyances...as Tim points out, I don't get
the multiple tabbed Konsole restored but only 1 instance with 1 tab when
re-entering my Desktop.

To Tim...it's not that things are feebler or have disappeared for any
reason...there actually is a reason and that the benefits of the
re-write of KDE aren't apparent yet and so if you expected to see
progress at this point, you will be disappointed. I am however, keeping
the faith.

Craig