After KDE 4.1 release: GHNS and other issues

[Daniel Winter]

Hello,

first thank you all for your impressive work the last months. 

After the 4.1 release I read a lot of reviews on differrent english and german 
websites. As you propably already knows: Most of them are really positive 
about plasma.

But I also read a lot of reader comments to the reviews. And was the first 
hours after release arround in #kde to answer questions of new kde 4(.1) 
users.

Most of the questions are plasma releated:

1. A lot of users have problems to figure out all config features. (move applets 
seam to be a problem for a lot of users, I even read two professional reviews 
where the author was not happy because he couldn't move applets).  

And some didn't even find a way to resize the panel. lock/unlock is also not 
easy to understand if you are not used to it. 

I know you are aware of this issues and a welcome applet is planed which 
explains such things to new users.  

What about some quick solution for 4.1.1? A short (about 2 minutes) video on 
the desktop which shows resizing and moving? Or Konqueror opens a local html 
on the first start which some static html page with some screenshots with a 
short text which shows moving, resizing, locking unlocking...  I think that 
could hlep users to find out about that features. 

2. GHNS:

That is an other very common questions in comment posts to reviews or 
yesterday in #kde.

"I tried to install a applet with the "get new applets from internet" 
function. It says installed but I can not find it"

I know you are aware of this problem. But this not working downalods which are 
saying installed anyway make a bad first impression. It shows all this nice 
applets, you try to install them and it just doesn't work.  

Would it be possible to get in contact with the kde-apps.org people and work 
togethter with them to remove those non working binary/c++ source loading 
applets from the ghns "feed" for install applets?

Answering the users: "Well that feature doesn't work yet,  go to kde-apps.org 
download the source there, compile it and install it on your own and don'T 
forget to run kbuildsyscoca4  or look out for packages for your distro for 
theses applets" is no real fun and is somehow a disappointement to those 
users.

Will there be a fix in the timeframe of kde 4.1 if not it may be the best to 
disable that feature for 4.1.1?

Just a few thoughts

DanielW