On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 15:58 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 15:49, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > >> [Incidentally, has the Control Center disappeared in Fedora-9, or is > > >> F=>Applications=>Settings=>System Settings > > >> a replacement for it?] > > > > > > Yes it is. I don't know whether other things will be added to it, > > > though. > > > > While I like the Windows-like layout, > > the individual settings, eg Desktop, seem much feebler than before. > > > > Actually, I find a lot of the settings in KDE-4 very strange. > > It is as though a completely new set of people developed KDE-4 > > without ever looking at KDE-3. > > Many of the options that used to be offered > > seem to have disappeared, for no apparent reason. > > > > > For your settings, have you looked at the various files > > > in .kde/share/config/ ? > > > > Thanks for the suggestion, > > but I didn't find anything relevant to my (minor) problem, > > that while some choices, eg Konsole in Desktop 2, persist through re-boots, > > others, eg Konsole in Desktop 1, do not. > > It's hard to work out whether it's our ineptitude with the new system or just > that the thing we are looking for hasn't arrived yet :-) ---- there are a number of features that are simply missing on KDE-4...I suppose it was the price of progress. The biggest thing that bothers me is the Desktop itself... - you can't delete files directly from the desktop, you have to use Dolphin - you can't jump to files on the desktop by pressing the first letter on the keyboard. - desktop icon alignment options are weak. Another thing and I'm not certain that it's KDE-4 but I think it is...is that starting applications from the taskbar isn't reliable and neither is switching between applications by clicking on their icons in the taskbar. I have had a few moments of seemingly hanging when switching applications via the taskbar. At those moments, X and Plasma seem to be using excessive cycles and have even had to force an X quit several times since installing Fedora 9. Yes, there are some minor annoyances...as Tim points out, I don't get the multiple tabbed Konsole restored but only 1 instance with 1 tab when re-entering my Desktop. To Tim...it's not that things are feebler or have disappeared for any reason...there actually is a reason and that the benefits of the re-write of KDE aren't apparent yet and so if you expected to see progress at this point, you will be disappointed. I am however, keeping the faith. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
