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What KDE 4 needs is better organization for themes:
gnome is nice because you can just click a few buttons and install a theme, with kde, you're stuck with compressed folder that can sometimes be installed with ./configure, make..... It is also strange that KDE has so many separate places for controlling the themes, its nice when your used to it, but not really.. Every kcontrol module for themes should have a button to install more themes, and one of those Get New Hot Stuff buttons that kdesktop and superkaramba have -- That dialogue should be updated too for searching

Also, all themes, regardless of purpose, should be put in a *.ksomething file, which should be like koffices files, and just be a compressed folder with a different extension, and xml files inside to identify what it is, and should launch a program that lets you choose what parts of it too install, and which parts of it to load immediatly once clicked

One thing that makes windows nice is that you could easily update it (ignoring how often u reboot). KDE releases a 3.5.* really often, and I still don't know how to update mine. Kpackage is useless for installing anything that came on your OS's install DVD..

KDE should also follow metatheme's example, and make it support themes from Windows XP. Sure, everyone hates windows, but there are some kool themes for XP not made by MS. KDE should also support every possible theme (from Gnome, Mac, Stardock, Beryl) and theme everything from wine to gnome. Kwin also needs to grow up to beat Beryl and Compiz.

Also, when I first used KDE, those big tabs and buttons looked awful, now they look great, possibly because I'm just used to it. But KDE must look awful for people switching from Windows with those huge tabs and buttons -- the big buttons also distort things that looked proper in Firefox, look at google.com for example

All a button that says 'install new theme' would have to do is call up ark to extract the theme file to a temp directory, then copy the proper files to somewhere in $HOME/.kde --- its certainly capable of that.

Also KDE should have dialogues for configuring non-kde things like the bootloader (grub) or the screen shown while starting up/shutting down

I tried. openSuse is far better than Kubuntu. Well, at least opensuse 10.1, they tried to take away my Run Command button in the new start menu of 10.2...

If theming the bootloader and startup screen is linux specific, then they could always make the dialogues vanish in non-linux stuff -- its not that big of a deal, but it'd just be nice to have the theme section able to theme every aspect of my computer

with opensource, who isn't a third party?

There is a weather plugin, you just have to right click, add to panel, and find it.
Beryl is not a kde app, and won't be included with kde.
Depending on the distro you chose, most these things are there by default
You can edit konquerors shortcuts so the back button does that
A minimize all windows button is there by default (seriously now, what distro?)
When you first run kde, you could always have chose the windows shortcuts and actions instead of something else -- which would fix the doulbe clicking header thing, or just change it in the settings now
Removing the virtual desktops thing is easy.. how could it get easier?
File>new submenu is perfect, it should never change

That would be nice to have too.

I was thinking of the craziest most unnused idea for desktops. I wonder if it would be possible to make a literal 3D desktop that makes use of those 3D glasses you see in movies.. That would be kool with a K.

thats pretty kool, i thought this was a duplicate of compiz/beryl when i first saw it. That looks amazing