On Thursday 24 April 2008 14:24, Mike C wrote: > Mary Ellen Foster <foster <at> in.tum.de> writes: > > NB: doesn't seem to work with the taskbar, and it's difficult to find > > the right place to click on the systray. > > I guess that the Fedora KDE team has to work within the code provided by > the KDE developers and KDE4 is very much in development right now. > > I too find that the current state of KDE4 is far from ideal, and > functionality currently is way behind what I have been used to KDE3.5 in > F8. However I think it has been stated a number of times that a really good > level of KDE4 user provision is not really anticipated until version 4.1 > which is not due until around July IIRC. > > I guess the best approach for people testing KDE4 would be to file bugs > at > http://bugs.kde.org/ > and hope that things get fixed upstream which will make the lives of the > Fedora KDE developers a whole lot easier. > Many things will be already work in progress, but doing that does tell them which things the users find most urgently in need of fixing :-) > Having said that things have improved quite a bit with recent rawhide > rpms for KDE though there is clearly still a lot to get working properly. > This does worry me somewhat in that when F9 is released then users new > to KDE might not be particularly impressed with it, even though > potentially KDE4 could be made to work beautifully once development gets > through version 4.1 and into 4.2 ... other may feel differently of course! Agreed. I feel I'm going to have to say 'give it a chance' quite a lot of times. OTOH, it's perfectly possible to either use the 'Classic' menu or even to have both. I use both so that I can keep an eye on what's happening to dolphin, but still use Classic if I need to find something in a hurry. Anne -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list