Fw: kde4.2 - my feedback

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Well, some of those points are actually true but easily
workaroundable. (this word exists?),
for the launcher, you can try another approach, it calls Lancelot, is
a menu with a `no-click` philosophy.
the size of the virtual desktops applet is configurable, depending on
the size of your taskbar ( or if it`s on your desktop, plasma will let
you redimension it normally. )

Tomaz

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Mo Ali <dodi666 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullrich at loop.de>
> To: kde-quality at kde.org
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:37:28 AM
> Subject: kde4.2 - my feedback
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> Dear developers,
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> I just tested kde4.2, using debian-live cd. This is my first feedback with my
> very, very personal impressions.
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> Tested on a Acer Aspire 9300 WLMI, dual-cpu with 2x1,8GHZ, 2GB RAM, Nvidia
> Graphics card with 512MB (7300Go).
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> Starting:
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> First, I liked the new splashscreen. Looks very fine. After the first icon
> appeared, nothing seem to happen (about 30 - 45 seconds), then suddenly it
> went on, and kde started. I saw no wizard, for the first configuration, but
> this might be normal, as it is a live cd.
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> Settings:
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> Of course the first thing, I wanted to change, were the personal settings.
> Keyboard and language are the most important thing. As German (my native
> language) was not available, I could not set it, but this was normal. It was
> just a live-cd.
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> Setting for my keyboard was fine (in my case it is Acer Laptop).
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> Critics
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> Look and Feel:
> First I took a look at the launcher. At the first glance it seemed good
> structured. When working with the launcher, I was happy, to see, that at
> every start of the launcher, you now always begin with the starting points of
> the menu, and no more with that point, you have ended at the last time. Nice!
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> Clicking on a menu like "graphics" let me see and choose the application, but,
> when hovering back to the left, I expected, to get automatically back to the
> menu choices (graphics, multtimedia and so on), but nothing happend. I have
> to click at the left on the "back" arrow to get back.
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> Hovering over the tab-icons did me neither bring back, too, nor back top the
> starting points.
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> This behaviour is a pain in the ass.
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> Please let me explain out of my view, why:
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> At KDE3.X it is that way: When I am looking for an application, and I do not
> exactly know, where I find it (for example a graphics application might
> either be in "Graphics" or "Multimedia"), but I know its name, I can hover
> over the menues, and as the submenus appear, I just can see and find my
> required application very fast. With KDE4 this is no more possible, I have to
> click into every menu, click back, click into, click back, click into... A
> paine in the ass, really (sorry for that)
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> I wish for me an option, to open submenus by hovering over the menus. This is
> really missing! I saw, you can activate and deactivate this for the tab-icons
> in the applauncher settings, but I found nothing for the menues itself.
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> Taskbar
> Another point, I am not fond of is the taskbar. Not the taskbar itself, but I
> dislike the very small areas for the virtual desktops. As I am very often
> switching among the desktops, IMO the buttons should be much bigger. It was
> o.k., as it was in KDE3.
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> Logout:
> Logging out did not work. Although I configured it in that way, to show all
> options and pressing "Logout"-button, to shutdown the machine, this did not
> work. Either the machine could be shut down (KDE4 always restartet), nor I
> could choose the option "shut down" in the logout window. This might be a
> bug!
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> General:
> I like the new optical style. It looks very modern and KDE4 seem to run faster
> on my machine than KDE3. Applications I use (i.e. kmail) are fine, I found no
> problems. In comparison to KDE3 (and I am using KDE since version 1.x), IMO
> KDE4 has got marked lesser usability than KDE3! KDE3 is more usable to
> unexperienced people than KDE4. Changing the points, I described above, might
> improve the system significantly.
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> My description and critics are my very personal view and may be not important
> for the folks at all, so please don't anger with me, but I hope it will help,
> to improve the system at all.
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> I know, this is a lot of work! Thanks for this!!!!
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> Best regards
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> Hans
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