Thesupermadman (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Besides Plasma and KWin, I've not noticed many - if any - differences between KDE 3 and KDE 4 applications, and the ones I do notice are the things that exist in KDE 4 that don't in KDE 3. What can you find so intensly annoying that's driving you away from it? Why aren't you reporting it in a bug report, or checking if it's already been fixed in a later release?

Thesupermadman (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What do you mean? You CAN still use it as you did. Most people carry on saying the Folder View widget lets you use the icons as you did in the past, but I've also found that just drag-dropping an application icon to the desktop works just fine as well.You CAN use it as you used to, but for people who want a desktop capable of more, then this is a huge step (in fact, it's a huge step anyway).

Membrane556 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Call me old fashion but I prefer functionality over eye candy.If doesn't feel comfortable and intuitive to use I don't care how pretty it is it has to go.KDE 4.X just does not feel like a polished product and WTF with changing how I use my desktop it's like going back to win 3.x but with eye candy sorry you fail.

Membrane556 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Last time I used KDE 4.x I replaced it with gnome after just 15 minutes just to get things done WTF were the KDE devs smoking when they made their decisions.I used KDE 3 quite a bit but 4 is trash and I will not use it ever and will instead use gnome,xfce,and fwm95.

Keruaran (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Last time I had KDE4 on my system I just couldn't use Kwin's composite effects, it just wasn't usable. But I just installed Kubuntu 8.10 on my system yesterday and it was surprisingly smooth with the latest Nvidia drivers. Kwin's composite effects were surprisingly nimble and "felt" light and fast. So a big improvement there. There are minor glitches yes, but all fixable and not deal breakers. The new KDE4 apps are looking great too.

Dojan5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

S3 Savage 4 Inc. 32MB.Nope, I can only run Metacity

1MARCKO1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

nope, I'm sure you can run xcommgr :P Technology can't stop developing for the ones that has old hardware (my graphic card it's bad, and yet, it runs kwin/compiz).

Dojan5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

But wouldn't that drop the support for the only composite manager I can run?

augustofretes (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You forgot one word: YET, it doesn't add them yet.

Dojan5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

No they don't.Metacity doesn't add all those effects like 3D cube etc. It only makes some compositing needed applications work and adds shadows under the windows. I can't use Compiz, but I can use Metacity.