On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 20:42 -0400, Eric wrote:
At 07:34 PM 9/29/2008, Claude Jones wrote:
>>>>>
>I think you really don't understand a basic point, here - KDE 4
>is not an evolution of KDE from 3, it's a fairly radical re-write
>of much of the code from the ground up. The point being, they
>didn't start with KDE 3.5 and 'evolve' the code to 4; nothing was
>taken out of anything, because they pretty much started afresh.
<<<<<
Good evening, Claude.
I understand it perfectly! And if the ability to rearrange icons is
likely to show up in an early release, I'm perfectly happy. But,
such an ability is so basic to just about any desktop that I found it
really odd that it wasn't there.
(I'm told that you can sort icons within panels. I haven't figured
out how to use panels yet ... and as for the one that comes up by
default in a fresh KDE install, I must have clicked on something
because it's gone and I haven't yet figured out how to get it back.)
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part of the problem is that the desktop is not a normal storage space
and thus by intent, there isn't a normal interaction with the desktop
that you are used to.
I understand your expectations and I think most people shared those
expectations because that is what we are used to.
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It would have been nice to have the option of reverting to KDE3 in an
official, supported way... maybe something like "yum groupremove kde"
and "yum groupinstall kde3", until such time as KDE4 becomes more
nearly as feature-rich as KDE3 was.
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it's already feature rich, it just doesn't have the features that match
your expectations. The KDE 4 desktop is what I call a dead zone (verizon
take note) and files aren't all that useful on a KDE 4 desktop. The
'folder view' panel in 4.1 is just this side of useless.
The truth is that the decision was made by the Fedora-KDE team not to try to implement
both KDE 3.5 and KDE 4 on Fedora 9 because doing so would have required a non-standard
implementation of one or the other besides the problem of having to maintain twice the
number of packages.
Craig