[kde-linux] Unpopulated Control-Center window

[Dale]

James Loughner wrote:
> On 12/01/2009 07:00 AM, Dale wrote:
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>> Stan Goodman wrote:
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>>> At 11:07:03 on Tuesday Tuesday 01 December 2009, Dale 
>>> <rdalek1967 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Stan Goodman wrote:
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>>>>> My conclusion from your detailed explanation above is that trying to
>>>>> retain KDE3 on an OS that wants to install only KDE4 is more trouble
>>>>> than it is worth. When I reinstall the oS v11.2, it will almost
>>>>> surely be with GNOME; I do not like KDE4, which is anyway unusable
>>>>> for me because the "new and better" text module has a serious flaw
>>>>> with right-to-left languages (Hebrew and Arabic). No doubt KDE will
>>>>> get around to fixing it, but meantime I wouldn't have a usable
>>>>> system. But I confess that I didn't like KDE4 before I discovered
>>>>> this, and I regard having been pushed into KDE4 as a diktat of a kind
>>>>> which I would have attributed only to Microsoft.
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>>>> You are not alone.  I'm not ready for KDE 4 either, or it is not ready
>>>> for me yet.  Anyway, finding a distro that still has KDE 3.5 will be
>>>> fun.  I downloaded a Madriva DVD but have not had the chance to install
>>>> it yet to see what is included on it.  Would you be interested in
>>>> Mandriva at least until KDE 4 got fixed where it was usable?  I could
>>>> install and at least see if the basics worked or not.
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>>
>>>> :-)  :-)
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>>> Sure. I'll also try GNOME on openSuSE. What I will avoid doing is making a  
>>> second career out of trying to undo KDE's foolishness.
>>>
>>> And no, I don't think it is a matter of either users or KDE4 being ready. 
>>> It's more a reflection of losing sight of convenience and usability, and 
>>> concentrating on bells-and-whistles -- ala Redmond (what a good name for 
>>> a desktop theme).
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>> I am also on the Gentoo lists and some of them have went to Fluxbox.  
>>  From what they have wrote, it has improved a lot but is still really 
>> light.  It may be something you want to look into if Gnome is not what 
>> you want either.
>>
>> For me, KDE 4 still has some things that don't work for me.  It gets 
>> better each time a new update comes out but is still not there.  I will 
>> say this tho, it is different.  You are dead on with that observation.  
>> It's not KDE 3 with improvements or a few tweaks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
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> Odd I got used to it right away. Running Suse 11.2. Took about a day and
> a half. It does thing you could not  possible do in 3.5. I have
> configured 4 "desktops"  One as the traditional desktop, another as my
> home directory, another into my development directory, the last is still
> a blank canvass. I like it though it is definitely different.
>
> Jim
>   

Well, the issues I ran into were discussed here.  There wasn't a way to 
fix them with the current state of KDE 4, not that we could find 
anyway.  I'm not saying that KDE 4 is bad because it is not, it's just 
that some of the "features" I need are not working yet.  As soon as 
those things get sorted out so that I can do my everyday things, I'll 
most likely be on KDE 4. 

I will also say, as I have said before, there is a lot that I like about 
KDE 4.  I'm not sure how well my old puter is going to like it but it 
looks OK to me.  May have to get a newer video card for this ole thing. 

Dale

:-)  :-)