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Quoted from "bonecollector" Quoted from "attila_66" Hello, What i want is very simple!! I want my desktop back as storage area for quick access and frequently used items. Thanks. You can use "Desktop Folder" widget as storage area at your desktop. Folderview actually is pretty cool. Most of what I've seen in Plasma widgets is just glorified applets, but folderview really does suggest some intriguing possibilities. Folderview takes advantage of one of the most powerful preexisting aspects of KDE...
I've read that eventually, you will be able to disable plasma in KDE4, so maybe that will resolve this for you. BUt please read this, especially the first part: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/talking-bluntly.html I think you should probably consider sticking with KDE3, as I have. KDE3 is still supported, and will be supported for years. If you're like me, you've felt a pressure to migrate, because KDE4 is all around and everybody keeps talking about how great it is, and you go to the KDE sit...
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/talking-bluntly.html It might have prevented me making a public spectacle of myself. Ironically, if a spambot hadn't revived an old thread, I would have never seen it, This resolved all my anxieties about the future of KDE3, and answers a lot of concerns. This is what should have been offered in response to Mr Nichols' "It's time for a fork" article. This information should be on KDE's website, and not just on Aaron's blog. In lieu of that, I think that everybo...
Quoted from "markc" I agree with most of your suggestions about a fork of KDE3, and just for the sake of revitalizing the 3.5 era konqueror would in itself be good enough justification. The point you make about a fork diminishing the bad feeling from some folks about the path of KDE4 could be spot on. Most people seem to be happy with the direction of KDE4 but there is OBVIOUSLY a subset of KDE users who are not happy with KDE4, regardless how politically incorrect it may be to suggest such a t...
Quoted from "zeno0771" Quoted from "Ash" Hi First i want to apologise - for opening this in the KDE 4 forum. I did it because it seems to be the only forum people i am looking for are reading. I want to make a fork of KDE 3.5 - basically give it new name and take it forward into the future with the pros it has over other desktops (including KDE 4) I am looking for devs. People who basically like the idea and who would like to contribute. To make a good desktop we need good work and motivation. ...
It's ironic, but not all that surprising, that one of the first things I did was to install opensuse 11,0, so I could run KDE 4.1.1 without losing access to Konqueror 3.5. Making the decision means that all of my feelings about KDE4 have been resolved. in my mind, KAL (konqueror/liberator) isn't their responsibility anymore, so I don't have to hate them. And that's good, because I always knoew hating them was wrong. Using KDE 4.1.1 doesn't depress and anger me any more. I'm planning on using Twi...
Okay, that was mostly BS. The truth is far simpler. The KDE team is doing a great job, and there's a strong consense that they're producing a great desktop. But there's no sign that anyone at KDE cares about Konqueror, an application that I am devoted to. New Konqueror releases aren't even announced at konqueror.org any more. No one is interested enough to do it. There's no real obligation that I know of for anyone at KDE to care about Konqueror, but I'm going to do everything in my power to mak...
Okay, now I've been playing with KDE 4.1.1, and it's pretty clear. Konqueror no longer has a filter bar. Dolphin has a filterbar. You can't mount devices from Konqueror any more, but you can mount them from Dolphin. Borttom line, I can't use Konqueror any more without Dolphin. To me, this means that KDE is pretty intent on murdering Konqueror as a file manager. They say they aren't, but their words and their actions tell two different stories. Until full functionality is restored to Konqueor, I ...
Quoted from "thetrivialstuff" What exactly is awesome about Dolphin compared to Konqueror 3? (When I say "Dolphin" in the list below, I'm also largely referring to Konqueror 4, because it uses a lot of the same crippled components as Dolphin. When I say Konqueror, I mean Konqueror 3.5) Some of my gripes with Dolphin so far: - Konqueror could split the view as many times as you wanted, horizontally and vertically. Dolphin is limited to one vertical split. - In Konqueror, it's possible to switch ...
I know that I'm being irrational and I hate KDE4 way too much. well, my crisis got considerably easier when I decided to dual boot a KDE3 system (Debian stable "Etch")with a KDE4 (Debian Unstable "Sid" )system. I can check out KDE4 without being dependent on KDE4, and without compromising the integrity of my KDE3 install. And I'm finding things that I like about KDE4. You always discover the things that you can't do with new software before you discover the things you can do. Still, until you gu...
Quoted from "KDE-user" It is good to live in a free world. I will start complaining when KDE forces me to use something that I do not like . KDE 4 allows to change the settings of the default file manager: Main Menu > Favorites > System Settings > Advance Tab > File Associations > inode (expand) On "directory": set to Konqueror , remove Dolphin On "directory-lock" set to Konqueror , remove Dolphin Then, go to KDE Menu Editor and add Konqueror in the System Menu as a file manager application . (...
Okay Ash, now before I was still seething from today's encounter with KDE 4.1.1. But in a more considered frame of mind, I would caution you against rushing into a forking project too quickly. KDE3 may be in long term danger, but KDE3 still lives. The latest release was just a few weeks ago. I'm sure somebody's going to fork KDE3, and when it happens, KDE may, quite understandably, decide their work on KDE3 is done, and withdraw support, so if the fork fails, we could all be high and dry. While ...
Quoted from "blackbelt_jones" OH THANK GOD! I've been trying to set up KDE 4.1.1, and my head is about to explode. So what can non-developers do to help? Quoted from "Zvezdichko" Errr... do you really believe that your project will ever take off ? There's no way of knowing, without trying, but I think that any attempt to fork KDE 3 should start modestly, and be more about maintanance than development. This aspect of free software is essentially a force of nature, and it is not for you or I any ...
I used to have a love/hate relationship with KDE4, but right now I don't have any relationship with it at all. I suppose I'll be back. I really think that in the end, they'll fix Konqueror, and that's really all that matters to me. I discovered lots of cool possibilities with KDE4, but the funny thing is that I was able to take most of them verbatim back to KDE 3. What tripped me up was that I was so used to being wrong about this sort of thing that I was expecting to change my mind in the end. ...
It may be the slowness my old computer, but those "handles" that sprout up on either side of the widgets are elusive. They spring up when I approach the wiget with the cursor, but they disappear as I get closer. I can get writer's cramp chasing them around. Personally, I'd like it better if all the handles simply popped out when the Desktop was unlocked, and were pulled in again when the desktop was locked. It feels like the autodetection itself slows things down a little.
Quoted from "SteveMcQwark" I had to rewrite this post several times because I am having trouble figuring out how to react to the cases of ideological supremacy and hypocrisy that have shown up in this thread. For a board about brainstorming, it doesn't make sense to have so many people simply condemning ideas simply because they aren't exactly the same as what already exists. Nobody is forcing the adoption of KDE 4. However, those who say that the new features should be removed in order to simp...
Quoted from "gnexus" Other than Dolphin I am quite happy with KDE 4, and think it is a major improvement. However, without the functionality of Konqueror 3, and the inability to port it into Fedora 9, I am unable to use the rest of KDE 4. Yeah, I agree, but let's wait and see. Dolphin is their baby. I can understand how restoring Konqueror is not the priority, but I would expect them to get to it eventually. I've gone back to KDE3, and I love it more than ever. I don't care much for Plasma, it'...
Short answer: If I could only have one computer, give me Ubuntu with KDE installed. I actually install Ubuntu with Gnome, then install KDE, because the resulting version of Konqueror is more complete than I get with Kubuntu. Then I run KDE apps with Fluxbox. More complete answer: I have two old computers, which I purchased for a total of 130 dollars, and recently I have set them up to have a debian-based distro running on one, and a slackware-based distro running on the other. Debian-based distr...
Quoted from "thetrivialstuff" What exactly is awesome about Dolphin compared to Konqueror 3? Oh God, Nothing! Please don't interpret anything that I say to mean that Konqueror 3 doesn't kick Dolphin's... uh, tail! Actually, it's a little embarassing, but I would like to withdraw from the "I was wrong about KDE4" thread. I no longer think I was wrong. After two to three weeks, I went back to using KDE3.
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.10.php Hooray for the same old thing! I haven't installed it yet, but just knowing it's there makes me feel safe and comfortable. I'm going to try to scrape together a modest contribution to show my apprectiation, and I hope other KDE3 fans will consider doing the same. Many thanks!
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