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Well this is true, but not without good reason.

For a power-user K has all the depth and configurability you will ever need. Many things are behind the scenes waiting to be used, and everything can be changed, including that K individually if you get proficient enough.

check out kde-look.org for styles. I used to like Baghira (Mac-like), but now I like darker styles to emphasize the work and not the frames.

Yeah, but what does that mean? Everyone has a different idea.

Personally I think the style needs to be much tighter and sharper, not this Plastik schite. And the app naming is complained about alot, but nothing changes.

I am just happy that it is as object-oriented as it is, since almost no one else does this. Wish it were more so, to really harness the power of this advanced technology.

KDE4.0.0 is FAST! Blazing fast! I intend on installing it on my laptop this weekend. It's been chugging under Kubuntu Gutsy. Other than some issues with the new KMenu I'm really liking it!

As for the names of programs starting with K. Believe me it's a NICE thing because it shows that it works with KDE. This may not be as much of an issue with KDE4, I read something about how Gnome apps will work better now. But currently at least, knowing that a program has been designed to work with KDE is big confidence builder.

All in all the new desktop looks fantastic, runs incredibly fast and seems solid so far.. in all my couple of hours running it.. I haven't run into anything that won't run yet so that's nice.

I had a real pain getting the fonts in apps to be large enough to read. A setting in appearnce forcing the fonts to 96dpi fixed that.

KDE4 is my new desktop! And I will be doing production with it so I'm sure I'll expose some bugs.

Kev

Congratulations you made KDE like Vista. Looks ok, but not piratical will stick with Gnome.

I just installed on a 300+ AMD XP with 2 gigs of ram and it craws. KDE 3.5 was faster and Gnome 2.6.20 runs rings around KDE 4

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Originally posted by maddog
I just installed on a 300+ AMD XP with 2 gigs of ram and it craws. KDE 3.5 was faster and Gnome 2.6.20 runs rings around KDE 4

How did you achieve that? I have a far inferior computer (and 512 MB ram), was running debug betas of KDE 4 along with KDE 3 in another session, and it seemed quite ok, not a lot slower than KDE 3 programs, and the redrawing seemed even faster.

should be 3000+ xp AMD, sorry.

Had so switch back to Gnome to get things done. In the file manager I could not right click and create a folder and there was no option in the menu list. I was also trying to move files from one folder to another and seemed like a pain. I used KDE on and off since mandrake 6. I have to say that Gnome is quick and easy and more powerful to use.

I am very ipressed with KDE4 , developers did made great job this time...It looks polished , it looks very professional and fresh...I think we needed change from kde 3.5 or gnome , it was 90's look and feel . 3.5 and gnome looks like win 95 ( colors of dialog boxes/windows is old style) , now finaly we have something new...
Sure there are stil many things to do...it is first version after all , it is not suposed to be perfect already...but it will be for sure after couple more releases...

Thanx KDE team for this great change and amazing future-posibilities

Best regards

Miki

I installed KDE 4.0 via opensuse and was horrified. What were these people thinking ?

Once they drop support for KDE 3.5, I'll move on to Gnome.

Well its as they say it is .. a dot zero release. Its all shiny and stuff but not quiet there yet. For instance I couldn't find a way to change the taskbar's default thickness. I know it will be around there somewhere but not accessible -> never will be used. I have over the years come to literally hate gnome, coz it hides more than it shows. I like KDE 3.x because kControl gives me just that control. Also the Vista like theme may or may not work. I personally dont have a problem with it. I'll keep my 3.x for now and wait for 4.1 or something.

I think KDE 4 may disappoint some long date KDE users for some features that were lost, transformed, replaced or still don't work.
In my case, since I am so lazy to read a help reference, it took me some time to discover that the columns feature in Dolphin. It does similar task that the tree feature in Konqueror but in a more visual-friendly way.
The tree feature allowed to be show more information about a file and more directories to be opened but you have to do much scroll work in order to see all that.
The columns allow you to open directories in more levels without clearness loss. I think it is a sample that summarize the differences between KDE 4 and 3.3.x right now: more easiness for sight but less functionality.

there must be a way to get the color of the taskmanager (as no panel seen) to our likings.
all looking blue is no good at all. for tired eyes from windows xp win2k vista and what ever.
i installed this minimal so to say kde-4.0.0 in gentoo.
the screenshot corresponds only to the first screen .
all other things like control center are different.
it takes lot of study to use this new desktop. no feel of kde.