Thanks for your reply Shawn. I'll try your suggestions but I'm not sure I can adjust to "modern approaches".
Robin On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > I respectfully need to disagree with your assessment of KDE 4.3+. It would > seem you are expecting the "old" way of doing things in a new system. If > you prefer the old way, KDE 3.5 is still available and supported. KDE 4.x > was a conscious departure from those old ways (at a code level) to > facilitate modern approaches and pave the way for easier, more focused usage > while still keeping the flexibility. I think they have succeeded, but it > does mean some of the old apps are no longer the best tool to be using in a > KDE 4.x environment. > > The specific issues you mentioned are mostly addressed via applications > other than Konqeror. Dolphin for file management, and Gwenview for the > image viewer. Take a look at the various options for both and you'll find > everything you are looking for, I think. Regarding the task bar, it is not > intended to be an application launcher, but you can make it do that if you > want (add a folder view icon, and put your shortcut icons in that folder...) > > KDE is not on a 6 month release cycle like Ubuntu is. So there is a > disconnect between what version gets included with the more recent *buntu. > Not to mention that Kubuntu seems to be the unwanted step-child of Ubuntu, > and does not get the attention it should. But that is still not a KDE > issue. > > (all said in a discussion tone. I do respect your opinion and views.) > > Shawn > > > Richard Carter wrote: > >> In my somewhat limited experience the choice between kde and gnome depends >> entirely on the version of kde. A long time ago I settled on kde mostly >> because konqueror was a great file manager. I also found the task bar easy >> to manage.That's still the case for konqueror ver 3.5.9 with kde ver 3.5.10 >> running on my debian desk top. >> But I find kde ver 4.4 on my kubuntu lap top to be quite poor. Konqueror >> has been emasculated. It's difficult to move/copy blocks of files, there is >> no longer an image view, the forward and back arrows don't work and there is >> no longer a "settings" menu. The task bar is also much less useful with kde >> 4.4: it's not possible to add icons, especially for non-kde applications >> >> Perhaps the practise of bringing out a new version of kubuntu every six >> months is a mistake. >> >> Robin Carter >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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