[Bug 165781] I am unable to do any of the exciting things Arron and other s blogs lead me to believe is in KDE 4

[Bernhard Friedreich]

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------- Additional Comments From friesoft gmail com  2008-07-05 11:45 -------
> I see no Bugs
great

> All the functionality that is currently available in KDE 3 is there
once again great

> Then there’s the task bar at the bottom it’s too big, it’s not resizable
it IS resizeable (unlock the taskbar (right click on it --> unlock widgets), click on the little cashew on the right side of it, a black bar with some icons (center, left, right align will appear), you can make the taskbar smaller (and of course bigger) by dragging the border (just like you do it with windows)

> and it’s not hide able
afaik plasma is capable of it but there's still missing a GUI (correct me if I'm wrong *looking at aaron ^^*

> getting icons onto it is fraught, and the functionality is so limited it’s virtually useless.
with the cashew thingy there appears a button add widgets (scroll through the list and then just simply drag some items from the list to the taskbar
and before you ask: moving is not YET possible (there already exist some patches (maybe for 4.1.x .. don't know)
you can get many more "icons" -- they are called plasmoids if you install the extragear and playground packages -- but be aware: the playground packages may be >>really<< unstable

> Then there’s this thing where can zoom in and Zoom out, it’s available from
> the top RH corner of the desktop. Wow, that is so exciting, it will make the
> desktop wallpaper bigger and smaller.
those are called activities.. there have been many blog entries about it.. it IS really useful if you get used to it.. imagine one activity for developing, another one for playing games (all with different wallpapers, plasmoids)

> All in all I’m very disappointed with KDE4. I was expecting some exciting new
> functionality (based on the obviously overblown rhetoric emanating from KDE
> devs), and all I’ve got so far in an unusable desktop environment.
GIVE IT SOME TIME! it was the same with the KDE3 series (as I've heard) and it's improving with such a rapid speed that you'll be blown away by the upcoming releases. The foundations have been made with 4.0 and 4.1 and now the implementation of these cool technologies can begin (in plasma and many many apps).

> KDE 4.1 Beta 2 is obviously not Beta material, at best I’d place it as Alpha.
Oh no.. not again.. sry.. this has been discussed sooo often.. just believe me: it's absolutely justified!

And now: let the devs do their work and be happy that 4.1 delivers you with all features you need and wait for the following releases to be blown away!

I think this bug can be closed and marked as invalid or resolved.