Oh man...I installed kde3 beta 2 from cooker (new rpms) and it works but it does have a few issues. Man, the default look for menus is butt-ugly and designed like it is for a blind retard (Kmenu in particular).
Some app windows also tend to be bigger than the screen and guess what? You can no longer move the window up or down by hitting the Alt key and dragging via the cursor. I don't know HOW to move windows around anymore except to click and drag from the titlebar which is useless if you are trying to bring the bottom of a window into view - and to make it worse, apparently you cannot resize the windows either. I was trying to resize the kmail addressbook window so I could see/use the buttons at the bottom of the window but it is impossible. I cannot resize the window to make it fit, and I cannot drag it up to bring the buttons into view. I also used to have a kmail kab addressbook and just as I read in a review last week, the new kmail cannot import it - it SAYS it can but when trying, it cannot find it anywhere so it might as well not exist. Kmail's look is also f*cked over and UGLY. I LIKED the old kmail fancy header design. Know what the new fancy headers design is? Just a plain, ugly two-color date-time and from window. No more cool KDE gear or even some other fancy graphic. I also am not able to get the kmail Subject, Sender, Date, etc lists to antialias even though I can get the message text to antialias. No matter what font I select (the beautiful arial) it remains nasty-jaggy-non-antialiased. For the moment, I also lost sound with the new kde3. Before, it was broken for me too (KDE 2.2.2) but I could get it to work by restarting artsd after logging in. I've tried that in KDE 3 and there are NO error messages anywhere but...no sound at all. The soundcard IS identified and loaded properly, however. This one might just be a continuing f*ckup that kde/artsd has with my IBM ThinkPad (esd likes it fine). Well, I haven't yet found any problems beyond what I listed...Oh yeah, KDM is gone, kapput, no more, no worky. I am stuck with the narly/nasty gdm. And it wont start kde 3 even though it is listed in its sessions menu (what a clunker gdm is!). I will be trying to fix it here by creating a symlink from the new "startkde3" to "starkde" and see if that satisfies it. For now I have to start kde3 from a CLI. Be warned, thus I send all this. praedor
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