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Before we start let me say that I am glad that ppl are choosing to use KDE and get the opportunity to configure KDE to do whatever they wish, but...

Is anyone else sick and tired of the OSX menu bar? Anyone tired of the "dude I love that transparent OSX bar thing that resizes after you go over the icons... KDE 3.2 need to have that." moronic junior-high filth that spouts forth from those with 0 understanding of system usability.

There is lots of work going to-wards getting a similarly functioning bar for KDE using the SuperKaramba interface. And no offense to anyone who is using it but the OSX menu bar has to be the least functional, least intuitive, and most resource intensive piece of c**p I have ever seen.

SuperKaramba itself is very nice; embedding rss feeds, system management tools, and resource indicators directly into the desktop lend to all kinds of wonderfully useful options.

Anytime I hear about how "much more functional" the OSX desktop is, I immediately know that the person talking lacks any real understanding of the functionality of KDE or the LACK thereof in OSX. OSX is useful because of the proprietary applications it runs... not because of the horrendously useless OSX interface. So why (if *nix has such a bad reputation for being less-than-fully-functional within the gui) are we working against what makes KDE so useful. Kicker is 100x more functional, useful, consistent, and even flexible than the OSX bar. Hell, at least slicker contains functionality improvements... OSX bar in Karamba does not. It is all form and NO substance.

Yes I know that its a "my cool OSX bar" thing, and that ppl are going to work on what they are interested in. And they have the right in the OS community to do so. If you want to use it.. then fine, use it. Just don't keep asking to replace kicker with that worthless piece of s**t.