On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 20:42 -0400, Eric wrote: > At 07:34 PM 9/29/2008, Claude Jones wrote: > > >>>>> > >I think you really don't understand a basic point, here - KDE 4 > >is not an evolution of KDE from 3, it's a fairly radical re-write > >of much of the code from the ground up. The point being, they > >didn't start with KDE 3.5 and 'evolve' the code to 4; nothing was > >taken out of anything, because they pretty much started afresh. > <<<<< > > Good evening, Claude. > > I understand it perfectly! And if the ability to rearrange icons is > likely to show up in an early release, I'm perfectly happy. But, > such an ability is so basic to just about any desktop that I found it > really odd that it wasn't there. > > (I'm told that you can sort icons within panels. I haven't figured > out how to use panels yet ... and as for the one that comes up by > default in a fresh KDE install, I must have clicked on something > because it's gone and I haven't yet figured out how to get it back.) ---- part of the problem is that the desktop is not a normal storage space and thus by intent, there isn't a normal interaction with the desktop that you are used to. I understand your expectations and I think most people shared those expectations because that is what we are used to. ---- > It would have been nice to have the option of reverting to KDE3 in an > official, supported way... maybe something like "yum groupremove kde" > and "yum groupinstall kde3", until such time as KDE4 becomes more > nearly as feature-rich as KDE3 was. ---- it's already feature rich, it just doesn't have the features that match your expectations. The KDE 4 desktop is what I call a dead zone (verizon take note) and files aren't all that useful on a KDE 4 desktop. The 'folder view' panel in 4.1 is just this side of useless. The truth is that the decision was made by the Fedora-KDE team not to try to implement both KDE 3.5 and KDE 4 on Fedora 9 because doing so would have required a non-standard implementation of one or the other besides the problem of having to maintain twice the number of packages. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
