So let's consider it a settled point that KDE 4.1 is very pretty.
There are, though, some issues I've encountered. I've always found KDE to be a bit buggy, and this one seems to be no exception:
- The "startup" music clip is truncated (I hear dramatic piano that begins, then suddenly stops). Strangely, the "shutdown" clip works fine.
- As a Firefox - Thunderbird user, I always have problems setting them as my default browser/mail client - this has been true in all my KDE experience.
- I tried to configure Kopete as my Google chat client, but it failed, saying that I didn't have a certain plugin installed (which I do see on my package list as installed).
- I'll mention here that my KDE 4.1 is installed onto my existing Kubuntu KDE 3.5 installation, which may be a factor in these issues.
- Well, (and this was lambasted in KDE 4.0 from what I've read) the desktop is no longer a "desktop" in the sense that you can just, say, download a file and put it there (which is something I do all the time). It is now a palate to place "widgets," some of which are actually useful, but are mostly nonessential eye candy as far as I can tell.
- Things are not as "configurable" as they were before. I can't, for instance, change my clock to display in a "12 hour" mode - not a huge deal, just a preference. Some of the things that are configurable are things I'm not that interested in changing, like the length of my task panel at the bottom of the screen.
3 comments:
you can change to 12 hour mode by going to systemsettings-> regional and language click "time and dates" tab and then change time format ..
i am using kde4 svn compiled from source so i dont know if this option exists on your kde4 install but its there ..
i dont know why the time is in 24 hours by default since not that many people use that
Hey - thanks for that tip - that's exactly what I did. I think, for what it's worth, that the default is 24 hour time because that's what's common in Europe.
Thanks!
Chris
if you want to just "download files and put it there", you should add a 'folder view' widget, and asign it to any folder where you download files. This way you can have an area of the desktop which dislays your mounted devices and another which shows your downloaded files.
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