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Rant: KDE 4

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Wednesday, February 18th 2009, 7:29pm

Rant: KDE 4

I'll appologize in advance for my rudeness but I strongly feel that the KDE folks should know how much KDE4 sucks compared to KDE3...

You know what , I am really fucking sick of KDE 4. Who the fuck cares about window manager animations and transparent windows?! This is my workstation I need it for my work! It has to fucking work. KDE 3 was better for all the things that count, and for that reason alone KDE 4 sucks. On top of that the animations suck, they're slow and don't even look double buffered (restore a window by clicking on its task bar entry). And don't say it's my hardware, I have 12G 8 core system with a quadro fx. Here is brainstorm, restore the functionality from KDE 3! if you do animations make sure they are fast and look right and don't give the user seizures. Don't change major system config placements etc... Don't remove features and change the UI "just cause". You'd think the kde community would pick up on the recent failure of vista and not go down the same path. Why can't we learn from their mistakes ? We have to make them as well ?

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Friday, March 20th 2009, 6:11am

I must sadly agree. I am using Ubuntu 8.10. From the moment when KDE 4 was supplied, I used it for a short time, until my nerves broke down. I am now using Gnome daily - I am not a great Gnome fan, but AT LEAST Gnome is MATURE and feature rich.

Just one bug related to my own usage :

- in Dolphin, if a file contains a `[', if I try to rename it, a great part of its name is erased

- not to mention the ugliness of Dolphin and Konqueror layout in KDE 4 - all these efforts in drawing a very visual KDE 4, and this complete lack of taste in drawing these layouts !

I forgot the other bugs, as as of now I have been using Gnome for a while.

I am just sad for this enormous mess - I will be back to KDE in : 5 or 10 years ?

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Friday, April 3rd 2009, 4:28am

what a joke KDE 4 still sucks ass

you know i've tried not to vent my frustrations with this but KDE 4 sucks KDE 4 reminds me of vista! why does it seem that gnome is following OS X and KDE is trying to be windows if i wanted to use windows i would of bought it i hate it why did you have to change from 3.5 its so much better

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Friday, May 1st 2009, 4:46pm

I have to disaggre, i just installed Mandriva 2009 Spring, i work better then ever, i have i 8mb video card and KDE4 works good on it, i think ubuntu is the problem.

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Thursday, May 21st 2009, 9:16pm

I have to agree with the original post.. KDE 4 lost focus and went in the wrong direction.. it is much less usable now.
I hate the caroonish ui style, i feel like i am in a kindergarten.

One major annoyance i feel whenever i see KDE 4 is the huge amount of wasted space between controls (buttons, menus..etc) and the lack of tidiness. The new control center is just a mess, who said that users would want to click more buttons to get where they want to get (proof: you need to click to go back to the main menu). The old Control Center was nice in presenting a tree-view of all the parts (although i heard that they put that back in 4.2 or 4.3.. I’ll wait when fedora 11 is out to check it out)

The control center is also a good example where you can see the negative effects on tidiness the icons have. The thing is, the text for each icon doesn't wrap (i like this very much, Windows does it perfectly). Wrapping helps keeps the icon+text boxed-in. The user should see aligned boxes at first glance. But with KDE 4, you see a mess of large cartoonish icons with randomly stretched text ruining the whole look..

The plasmoids (or these applets which you can add to the desktop) are a complete waste of time, let alone resources, specially the visual ones (i mean visual space). Add the battery applet (if it has any use) and see the silly large icons with silly large surrounding border. Why?

The new kicker menu is also a disaster. Yes i can switch back the classical one, but why introduce a worse one in the first place? The main problem of it is that you will almost certainly loose yourself in it and will have to click a load of clicks back to the "root" menu. I had a look at how Vista does it, and it is neat.. Vista has some sort of a tree showing what you need to see, but still letting you know where you are.

Don't get me wrong though, i am a KDE fan, but not 4, at least not yet

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