On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 21:14 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> 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. > > > You said it better than I did. > > I don't "get" KDE4. The big thing I missed from KDE3 was a desktop with > real folders on it that I could drag and drop to my heart's content. > KDE has "folder view" that one can use to display a folder and one can > put the icon for a folder on the desktop, but I don't see how that is > better than what we had with KDE3. > > All I see so far is that KDE4 is different. I don't get how it is > better. > > The management and control of the desktop area is what I don't > understand. Its like we added a layer of complexity (ie using folder > view and having to use an icon on the desktop to represent the folder) > and I am not following why its better. I don't see anything we couldn't > have done in KDE3 if we would have added widgets to it. > > Why did they not allow the user to have a traditional desktop that > displayed the entire contents of the Desktop folder ? > > Thanks Apparently, the people writing the code came to the conclusion that things were becoming a huge mess, and took the opportunity of moving to Qt4 to rewrite a lot of the stuff they saw as crap. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
