[arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

[David Rosenstrauch]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 June 2009 11:21:01 you wrote:
>> David C. Rankin wrote:
>>> If you have been in the same
>>> holding-pattern lately in your thinking about kde4 as well -- I bet you
>>> will be pleasantly surprised as well ;-)
>> Thanks for the heads up.  I'll have to give it a shot one of these days.
>>
>> Clearly I'm not going to be able to remain on KDE3 for much longer, as
>> no one's going to be doing new development on any of the apps.
>>
>> DR
> 
> 	Yep DR, that's the boat I find myself in. From what I can tell now, KDE4 will 
> be a good follow on to KDE3. 30 days ago, I would have ... and I did ... tell 
> you it wasn't

Will give it another shot one day when I have more time.  I'm not 
looking forward to it, though, because they took away a lot of 
functionality (and look and feel options) that I rely heavily on in my 
daily workspace.  From an old email of mine:

David Rosenstrauch wrote:
 > Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
 >> Could you please elaborate? I am curious to know what is so wrong.
 >
 > I'll bite.
 >
 > * *All* my kde3 settings are gone and I'd need to manually port them
 > over to KDE4.
 > * The KDE3 color schemes are gone.  I'd need to manually port my colors
 > over to KDE4.
 > * The widget style I like to use is gone.  The ones provided are not
 > very similar.
 > * The window decorations I like to use are gone.  The ones provided are
 > not very similar.
 > * Kpersonalizer is gone.  I liked this util very much, as it allowed me
 > in one fell swoop to set all my shortcut keys to emulate Windows.
 > Without it I need to manually set all my shortcut keys.
 >
 > And that's just what I was able to come up with in a 1-hour test drive.
 >
 > Bottom line:  I was faced with the prospect of many hours of tweaking
 > just to get my desktop back to the way I like it.  And there didn't seem
 > to be any compelling benefits to KDE4 to offset this aggravation set.
 >
 > I'm more than open to hearing counter-arguments as to why someone thinks
 > it's worth the switch.
 >
 > DR


DR