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I was thinking of interface.

what kind of deep changes to the interface are needed and not done in kde4 as it would appear at this moment?

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what kind of deep changes to the interface are needed and not done in kde4 as it would appear at this moment?

Well I'm just an user among the crowd and my opinion may not be very important so I'm not sure this or that is needed but I would have expected kde4 to 'start' gettin rid of, i.e., the 'multiple toolbars syndrom' and think of other ways to do things.

I'd like to see at least 2 things in KDE 4:

1. "real" transparency in Konsole (to allow composite WMs like Beryl to give them transparency effects without losing the text)

2. The option to individually stretch icons on the desktop (like Gnome allows) This makes it VERY easy to organize the desktop.

BTW I'm currently using Gnome (don't ask ) and, right now, the icon thing is the only part I like.

Keep up the good work, I look forward to KDE 4 (coming soon, right?)

Oh yeah, one more thing:

For video files, right now a nice thumbnail is generated showing a frame from that video. It would be VERY helpful to be able to set that frame (call it the "icon frame" or "preview frame" or something) by right clicking the file and dragging a slider or typing in the frame number. I have some TV shows that I've recorded that all just show the opening title.

(OK, I guess it's two things)

Mac OS X has a handy "column view" for the finder (in addition to list and icon views). It takes just one click to open folders, and you can see the last few places you've been. I think KDE should have this (in Dolphin, or Konqueror -- whichever you use).

cheers!

I only switched to linux, from windows not long ago, after researching online it seemed that KDE was the popular way to go so that is what I went with, haven't tried gnome. But there are a few things that annoy me with kde, maybe they can already be done, I am not sure, but i personally like to not have programs on my computer that I don't want there, and remove things that I wont use, however it seems impossible to do this with kmail, if I want to use a different e-mail client it seems I have to keep kmail installed, and that is something I hate. I would like to see the ability to only install what I need, not install kde programs that are not needed.

I would also like to see a better e-mail client, kmail to me is just nasty. E-mail is one of the main things I do on my computer, and kmail just sems so plain and ugly. I look towards apple's next release of their mail client as what I would like to see on linux. And I personally believe these are things that the linux community needs to look at, if you want to convince more people to come over from windows. So perhaps in the next kde release a better e-mail client, looking at what the features are in the next apple email client k-mail looks old and stale.

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[ I am not sure, but i personally like to not have programs on my computer that I don't want there, and remove things that I wont use, however it seems impossible to do this with kmail, if I want to use a different e-mail client it seems I have to keep kmail installed, and that is something I hate.

You don't need to keep kmail installed on your system if you don't want to use it.
kmail is part of the kdepim package.
Some linux distribution deliver the kdepim package as a whole, others split them up and package the application seperatly.

For example opensuse bundles kmail with korganizer, kontact, knode, kleopatra and a bunch of small pim and groupware utilities.
That package creates kontact: the kde answer to outlook and evolution.

All components of kontact can be used seperatly, so that's why you can start kmail as a single email client.

if you can live without kontact, of live without the contents of the whole kdepim package, you can delete it.
Only thing you need for a basic kdedesktop is kdelibs and kdebase.

I think the days when we needed cutesy Bonzi Buddies, Paper-clips and Dragons on our desktop is more or less over.

My suggestion is: Kill Konqui for Kde 4
... or at least stick him away in some package where kids etc. can download him if they feel the need




ps. sorry 'bout the double post

the previews of kde4 are exactly what i want, turning kde more dynamic and responsive, okular, separating Konqueror and dolphin etc...

testing E17, since 2 weeks (i'm a KDE user from 4 years), I noticed some weak points of KDE (note: testing Gnome, i don't feel this)

2 or 3 things are important, i think.

- turn KDE faster, but really faster to charge!

- the desktop must be very flexible: the taskbar and panel are good things, but the shelves of E17 are more powerfull. And I'm not talking about eye-candy, but realy an optimisation of the work-space, using a lot of empty spaces of the windows...

- for eye-candy or not a GUI soft is necessary to make themes, and the instalation of themes must be easier and independant of distribution: just put the theme on a folder and that's it.

yes yes I know... compiz and beryl are separate packages, external to kde *sighs*

But seriously, people WANT that. We're in the year of VISTA (yeah yeah), the nice Mac OS,
Xgl, compiz and beryl, super video cards. 3D desktops are here and are cool and people want them - and people *do not* want to download external packages.

Why would I want to use something that does basically the *same* thing as other packages, but looks worse? Up to now the main reason I am using KDE (since version 2 by the way) is because it's QT based - and I use QT a lot. But you know what? I can use QT somewhere else.

Let's face it, people want a button: "enable 3D effects".
And let's face it: it's going to be a disaster if you can't provide that.


mauri

good news, kwin of kde4 has some preliminary support for 3D-effects.
see youtube for some example videos

Hello!
Maybe we will can do the tool, what can mount the ISO CD images?
I think, the human will do right click on the *.ISO file icon, in the menu will be open the menu "mount the CD image to /home/user/MountedImages".

I don't know if it's within the scope of the KDE 4 project, but I would very much like to synchronize my Windows Mobile PDA with KDE-PIM.

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Originally posted by Boron
Hello!
Maybe we will can do the tool, what can mount the ISO CD images?

Look at
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/MountISO?content=11577
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Hi all,

What I would like to see in the next iteration of KDE is a more powerful Klipper. I have moved from Win2K to Kubuntu and am in the process of hunting for programs to replace what I used in Windows. It's nice to have Klipper (as opposed to nothing) but it needs to be much more powerful. I used to use a program called ClipMate in Win2K. It is an extremely powerful clipboard replacement utility. It is tied into a database under which you can create collections of clips. It has built in capabilities to edit clips via it's own editor and to strip characters or strip formatting from clips - to name just a few one-click operations. It has many powerful tools you can use to manipulate clips. There is a feature called powerpaste that allows you to choose a range of clips and consecutively paste them. All you have to do is define the clips and the direction in which you want to move through the list and start pasting. The tool moves from one clip to the next and pastes the next clip each time you use the command. You can append to clips, give them descriptive names, organize them into meaningful categories, glue clips together, explode them into parts using configurable delimiters, explode and powerpaste combined - and that's just the stuff I use most. There is more functionality that I haven't even explored. It sure would be nice if Klipper grew into a more powerful utility with these capabilities - and any others you nice developers could think of.

Thanks...

I agree that KDE should look better, just a simple look though.

However, i do not agree that we should review Mac OS X's style. I believe that KDE should have a completely unique look and should not mimic windows or mac in any way.

I've built myself a cluster and I find that KDE 3.5.6 does not migrate well from the main node to the rest of the cluster. Digging through Google, I find that this is a well know problem and I totally understand the reasons why...

My request for information concerns KDE 4.0. Is the up coming 4.0 release anymore cluster friendly than current versions? There's a real performance gain, running threaded applications on a cluster... KDE could be one of them.

Any KDE developers here know?

Thank you, in advance, Jerry

What I'd like to see is a much improved PalmOS conduit system. And not just the user interface, but the performance of pretty much all of the conduits. kPilot and pilot-link just don't work. I think I read a while back that this was actually going to happen, but I haven't seen much chatter on the subject lately, so those are my 5 cents.

Good news, the kpilot conduit system got accepted by the google summer of code, aiming at improving them for kde4.

KDE should not look like MS Windows. It's sad, but they are very similar

It would be great if KDE4 had a new open/savefile dialog!