My experience with 2.1 Beta 2 has been a lot more positive.
I'm sure that themes will be functional in the final release and I can live
without them until then. From recent posts on KDE.News it sounds like
graphical polish is being applied right now...
http://dot.kde.org/981832647/
Konqueror has been very stable and shows lots of improvement from earlier
versions (a new and very good bookmark editor, more control over fonts,
better page rendering, etc.). I have never experienced the "blank KControl
thing" although there's been lots of talk about it here. (I'm not disagreeing
with you, but perhaps it's not a problem everyone would experience.)
In terms of overall stability, KDE 2.1 Beta 2 is the most stable KDE I've
used and considering how quickly this release has come on the heels of 2.0
that's an impressive accomplishment. Here's an article which sets this in
perspective...
http://www.linuxtoday.com.au/r/article/jsp/sid/595874
I'm looking forward to the final release.
M.
On Sunday 11 February 2001 13:11, Vic wrote:
> Hello from the States.
>
> I would like to offer my review for kde2.1beta 2
>
> I for the most part liked all the new features, altho
> some of them were broken, such as the blank kcontrol
> thing, rendering it useless in root account.
>
> I also liked the new config menu for Konqueror
> but the user agent editor was broken would not
> save the settings that you put in.
>
> I lost the theme from Kde2 where the close X box was on the
> left, where I wanted it, and in the beta2 I could not
> find this theme anymore all the themes were with
> the close box on the right which I did not want,
> just preference, not crippling by any means, but
> a strong preference.
>
> The theme manager altho functional, was slightly
> impaired due to the fact that you cannot add any
> themes to it, nor find the original theme that
> kde2 had by default.
>
> It did sort of fix the Konq crashing, but the knotifeir
> was broken, kept crashing causing the crash
> notifiyer to keep coming up and be irritating.
>
> Over all kde2.1beta2 was a nice update of features,
> but at this time I do not feel it is for me to stick with
> this and I went back to kde2 original.
>
> I look forward to other's reviews of this beta
> and to hear from them about the next review,
> I might hold off on updating to any betas until
> I hear from other people first, as I should not
> have messed with my main machine, but I still
> thank Chris for making them into rpm form
> and I thank KDE for trying.
>
> Thanks
>
> Vic
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
