KDE 4.5 - Desktop files

[B.W.H. van Beest]

Your grumbling well resonates with my impressions. Indeed hours I have
spent to get my desktops the I want.
I still don;t understand what an "activity" really means, or what
advantage it gives.
For me, it is important to have different desktops, with different
backgrounds. And it is important to switch between them with only 1
action (like mouse wheel scroll).
That can all be done with 1 activity, so I found out. So I'm missing the
clue of the whole new KDE plasma thing.

Out of curiosity I occasionally click on the top right thing to see a
menu popping up which gives me no clue why I would ever want to use this
menu.

Having said all this, with KDE4.5 I found that the time has finally come
to definitively leave KDE3.5. I tried all the earlier ones and was
disappointed again and again by the lack of usability. This is changing
now, and I am looking forward to a next release, hoping that the (still
many) inconveniences are further reduced.

Regards,
Bertwim 



On 10/08/2010 06:25 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
> RE: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=128191126325161&w=2
>
> Wherein the wonderfulness of the flexibility of plasma is extolled:
>
> For folks that do not want to devote their precious time to
> exploring wizbang flexibility but do want some amount of flexibility,
> all those features are of little value.
>
> I configured one wallpaper per desktop so it would be easy to tell
> the current desk top.  I had to learn all about this plasma thingey
> because without a full understanding, you only had one "activity"
> (wtf?) so only one wallpaper.
>
> I have always used a very short right-click menu to select programs
> I use a lot (viz. konsole).  Nope.  Can't do that any more.  Yes,
> I know that everything is configurable, but the "standard menu"
> is not.  You can select or deselect certain things, but you cannot
> add to it.  So, I am sure there is a way, but I do not have hours
> and hours to go exploring featuritis run amok to fix something that
> used to be obvious and easy to do.
>
> And do not get me started on konsole remembering the size of
> the last window of any sort and snapping to that size. *That*
> is fixed now, but that *was* worth the hours of effort it took
> to stop that completely horrible misfeature.
>
> Please, for God's sake, make new wizbang thingies optional and
> stop obscuring things that people rely on.  Thank you.
>
> Sorry.  I'm not always a grump.  I just wanted my right-click-for-konsole
> back.
> ___________________________________________________
> This message is from the kde mailing list.
> Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
>
>   
___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.