How is KDE4 supposed to be used ?

[Dave Feustel]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:14:49PM +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Saturday 04 October 2008 18:32, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > There is and has been a lot of grumbling about KDE4 from a number of
> > > people including myself.  On the other hand, some people think its
> > > great.
> > >
> > > I can't help but wonder if I am missing something on how its supposed to
> > > be used.  Is there a guide or website that has a little tutorial
> > > somewhere ?
> >
> > What exactly are you trying to do that you can't do?
> 
> How about auto-hiding the panel? It takes precious space on my 12" notebook 
> screen. :-)
> 
> But I believe the OP's question is more on the lines of "what can KDE4 do that 
> KDE3 cannot", ie. what is the precise benefit of this major rewrite of the 
> code and a paradigm shift? I was tempted to ask this myself, but Linuxguy 
> beat me to it. :-)

As good as Konqueror3 was, Konqueror4 is even better.
Gwenview is a major improvement over Kview.
Okular is a big improvement over xpdf.

When it comes to KDE, I always look forward, never backward.