KDE 4 problems highlight shift from community users to consumers
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 71.161.157.9]
on July 16, 2008 08:30 PM
Obviously for it succeed the new version must not have less functionality than that which is replaces.
examples which I do hope will be resolved:
- places in Dolphin are not bookmarks (bk's should be available everywhere)
- should be able to select somewhere Dolphin or Kong as default fm (if there I'm missing it)
- new control center - is hard to find the bin name, layout is confusing and copied from *buntu and search is not fully funtional (devs should look at 3.5.x's or advanced search in ccsm)
- much is not yet working or available in Konq such as previews when hovering, mp3 meta data in properties, open a bookmarks folder in background tabs, imbedded find, etc
- plasma and panels still missing too much such as hovering previews, quick start, moving of widgets in panel, hiding in system tray, should be a widget that will run 3.5.x applets
- icon on desktop, personally don't care but this seems pure discretionary on the developers part
But what bothers me most is that I don't think the user community has been communicated with very well. What we should expect in 4.1, 4.2, etc or what the diff. are in the beta's and rc's, what doesn't yet work, what functionality won't be ported. I know the commit digest exists but it's more towards svn than what actually shipped.
I'm using 4.1 and it and kwin are stable and I'm convinced that eventually it'll be there but I just don't feel that the community is being involved/communicated to (but then again I might not know were to look).
Finally I do thank the devs cause what they've done is impressive
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KDE 4 problems highlight shift from community users to consumers
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.161.157.9] on July 16, 2008 08:30 PMexamples which I do hope will be resolved:
- places in Dolphin are not bookmarks (bk's should be available everywhere)
- should be able to select somewhere Dolphin or Kong as default fm (if there I'm missing it)
- new control center - is hard to find the bin name, layout is confusing and copied from *buntu and search is not fully funtional (devs should look at 3.5.x's or advanced search in ccsm)
- much is not yet working or available in Konq such as previews when hovering, mp3 meta data in properties, open a bookmarks folder in background tabs, imbedded find, etc
- plasma and panels still missing too much such as hovering previews, quick start, moving of widgets in panel, hiding in system tray, should be a widget that will run 3.5.x applets
- icon on desktop, personally don't care but this seems pure discretionary on the developers part
But what bothers me most is that I don't think the user community has been communicated with very well. What we should expect in 4.1, 4.2, etc or what the diff. are in the beta's and rc's, what doesn't yet work, what functionality won't be ported. I know the commit digest exists but it's more towards svn than what actually shipped.
I'm using 4.1 and it and kwin are stable and I'm convinced that eventually it'll be there but I just don't feel that the community is being involved/communicated to (but then again I might not know were to look).
Finally I do thank the devs cause what they've done is impressive
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