Is KDE really usable?

[chris]

Am Sonntag, 22. Oktober 2006 18:33 schrieb Iñaki:
> Unfotunatelly I don't see usability improvements in the most important apps
> of KDE (Kontact, Konqueror), just new and "exotic" features that are not
> neccesary for common users who only expect a reliable OS (that KDE can't
> offer now to them).
>
> Of course I'll try to investigate and report all the important bugs I've
> told here, but it was terrible for me when an advantage user had to
> reinstall Gnome because it was impossible to work with KDE. And I saw all
> the proccess, the bugs weren't "newbie" bugs, the problem was KDE, sure.


Hello,

though that doesn't add much to your mail I can say that I, beeing a KDE user 
ever since 3.0, can confirm most of the issues you mentioned.

Especially the crashing of Konqueror and Kontact. It has always been there. It 
got a bit better the last few releases, but with all the rambling of the cool 
new stuff for KDE4 I don't see that improving to an acceptable point in the 
near future.
And to most users it really is not acceptable if applications such important 
as the file manager and PIM suite crash - at all. So I can see how others 
aren't willing to enjoy the rest of KDE for this sole reason.

Everyone who used Konqueror for some serious file management like moving and 
copying larger folder structures from one partition over to another, opening 
all sorts of archives, doing drag and drop between ark an Konqueror and so on 
will at some point run into a crash. Most of those that happen to me (on 
several machines) are related to drag and drop, but I could never really 
point at what was the cause (in order to avoid that in the future).

Hope you manage to report some useful bugs and won't be faced with too much 
denial at that.

Chris