On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Don Delp <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to admit to being a procrastinator, but I feel that I won't be > able to hold off on switching to KDE 4 for much longer. I've been > running Kubuntu 8.04 happily with KDE 3.5, but some applications (eg. > Amarok) are only being updated for KDE4. When I first tried 4, I was > not impressed. Has anyone else made the switch that can tell me that > the water's fine?
I tried 4.0, 4.1 and then 4.2, when each came out. Every version was really messed up for me. When I complained I was told to try Suse (rather than Ubuntu) if I wanted a "good KDE install". Suse is rpm-based, so I never did. > I've stuck to KDE, even though I put GNOME on my wife's computer, > because I like the way it works. I can get by in GNOME, but it feels > dumbed down to me. Things don't seem to have enough right-click > options. Often, keys that I would expect to do something just don't > respond in certain situations. I don't have it in front of me atm, > but I remember having a hard time deleting dead entries from my wife's > Program menu. The way it switched from being right-click driven to > having buttons on the interface and back again to perform tasks seemed > to be very arbitrary. > > I'm also not against other window managers. I've heard nice things > about xfce, but the way it's configured on MythBuntu doesn't thrill > me. I got used to Gnome over time. I had the same issues you describe.. seemed too simplistic. But now a few years later I really value the simplicity. As I get older I'm starting to care less about fancy right-click menus and more about getting things done so I can move on to whatever is next. Gnome seems right for me, right now. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
