On Saturday 04 October 2008 18:32, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There is and has been a lot of grumbling about KDE4 from a number of > > people including myself. On the other hand, some people think its > > great. > > > > I can't help but wonder if I am missing something on how its supposed to > > be used. Is there a guide or website that has a little tutorial > > somewhere ? > > What exactly are you trying to do that you can't do? How about auto-hiding the panel? It takes precious space on my 12" notebook screen. :-) But I believe the OP's question is more on the lines of "what can KDE4 do that KDE3 cannot", ie. what is the precise benefit of this major rewrite of the code and a paradigm shift? I was tempted to ask this myself, but Linuxguy beat me to it. :-) It is obvious that KDE4 is meant to be used with a different mindset (no icons on the desktop, desktop is not a folder, everything you can see is a window or a widget, etc...), but the question is actually *why* is it different and *how* is one supposed to think in order to make optimum usage of it. I believe some users are trying to forcibly configure it to behave like KDE3, and are frustrated by the process and the results. The "why" question is obvious somehow... Note, I did some reading on the sugested websites that explain this in some sense, but I still fail to see the actual benefit of this paradigm shift. So I'd be grateful if someone explained this in a nutshell, and I believe this is what OP also wants. I also like it and use it on a daily basis, but somehow feel that I am missing the idea of how it is intended to be used. Best, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
