On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 14:41, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 November 2009 22:04:58 Richard wrote: > > I think that thoughts about KDE (new version) are being shared > among a > > lot of users, and i'm one of them, i like KDE, and almost cant > handle to > > work on gnome, but this new KDE taste made me drop Linux for > the last > > months and i really has not being using linux almost since KDE > 4 > > appeared as the non-optional KDE desktop. > > > > KDE 3.5 was workmanlike. KDE 4 is very hard to work with IMO. > I upgraded to Slackware 13 just to get QT4 which is required by > recent versions of Slackware. But I really could not abide KDE4. It > is strange, slow, clumsy, and buggy. In this case four strikes and > you're out. So I changed my gui starter program from kdm to xdm > and made XFCE the default. > I suggest you get KDE 4.3.3 (and dependencies - check the Slackware changelog) from Slackware-current. It is considerably faster and more usable than what is included in 13. > > Now I have the best of both worlds. I have an interface that is as > easy to use and almost as easy to customize (put icons for > frequently used programs on the bottom kicker bar) as KDE 3.5. > All the KDE 4 programs still work AFAIKT. The only important thing > I lost was Kpdf. Okular is OK as a pdf viewer but doesn't have a > print capability. Also I substituted Konsole for Terminal. And with > some grief I went back to LPRNG and got rid of Cups for printing. > > It is however saddening to note that I made all these changes just > to bring Slackware 13 up to the capability of Slackware 12.2. I > wonder if moving Scribus from QT3 to QT4 was worth all this fuss. > > Not every change is an improvement. KDE4 is a Vista class > mistake, IMO. Just say no. > The difference between KDE4 and Vista is that KDE4 is a work in progress, and after every update it works faster and better, and you get a clearer picture of what the developers are hoping to achieve. Vista is a final product - or at best a step towards Windows 7 (but you have to pay for the update!) > > -- > John Culleton > "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20091203/4ef9c444/attachment.htm>
