How is KDE4 supposed to be used ?

[John W. Linville]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 04:38:13PM -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote:

> I don't "get" KDE4.  The big thing I missed from KDE3 was a desktop with
> real folders on it that I could drag and drop to my heart's content.
> KDE has "folder view" that one can use to display a folder and one can
> put the icon for a folder on the desktop, but I don't see how that is
> better than what we had with KDE3.

No kidding...if anything, "folder view" is kinda like a wart --
it doesn't really fit with the rest of the desktop.

> All I see so far is that KDE4 is different.  I don't get how it is
> better.

Well, at least you can make your plasma widget spin around, even
mounting your clock at an angle!  How this is useful, I cannot
fathom...but you can do it!

John
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John W. Linville
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