KDE 4.0 verdicts

[allix]

I tried the suse live cd on qemu, its very snappy , the widget tool is very neat, comes with this comic feeder thats nice.
Dolphin is very slick and uncluttered. KolourPaint is nice little painting app, that was pleasant to use.
The system control is a lot better layed out.I could not test out desktop effects as there not supported in qemu.

Overall i am impressed.

[CptnObvious999]

For previous SuSE Live KDE 4 cds it is pretty nice, although there where some annoying bugs. Most were with plasma and Im sure some were caused by the distro not being correctly tweaked to run it. I haven't tried 4.0.0 yet, I will probably grab the latest Kubuntu Hardy release and try running KDE 4.0 instead of 3.5 soon.

[dann]

The most important question, and one that will drive my reviews of all future software and hardware, did it have a Big Ass Analog Clock (BAAC) or as others like to put it a Big Fucking Analog Clock (BFAC). Did it? Did it? I need to know. Because if it did, then I will have to hate it.

Please, if you are going to post your opinions after using KDE 4.0 it is important that you include this information.

[spotslayer]

The most important question, and one that will drive my reviews of all future software and hardware, did it have a Big Ass Analog Clock (BAAC) or as others like to put it a Big Fucking Analog Clock (BFAC). Did it? Did it? I need to know. Because if it did, then I will have to hate it.

Please, if you are going to post your opinions after using KDE 4.0 it is important that you include this information.

Well installed it alongside my KDE3.8 and don't see anything great, yet. Maybe I haven't fooled around with it enough. It is real pretty though. I think more functionality will come with aging.

Dann there is no
"Big Fucking Analog Clock (BFAC)" by default.
But since we know you love it so much it can be added as a desktop widget. I guess Aaron could tell by your tone that you were gonna miss it if it was gone.

David

[Shanghai]

Installed KDE4.0 Last Night (after a six pack of Asahi beers) and it looks Great. I don't know if it was that second six pack of Beers but I just had to put that Big analog clock widget on my Desktop.

[dann]

Hmmm, looks like my crusade against the BAAC is failing; too many people are enjoying this most evil of widgets.

Damn you BAAC!

[snarkout]

Well, my uberquick review is that nothing much has changed in userspace since last time I tried it, which was one of the RCs, but it appears that it will, someday, kick ass.

I think it looks extremely promising, and as much as I dislike kde3-dolphine, I really like kde4-dolphin. Right now, though, IME it is nowhere near ready for full time use, or even prime time really, and I'm aware that this has been discussed to death. I'm just wondering if this hasn't been reverse-googlized - this is still 100% beta as far as I'm concerned, but they're billing it as a 1.0 release.

[Patrick]

Mixed. It looks very promising but there is a bunch of stuff that's not ready for prime time. It seems most of the configurablity is just not there yet. That's good and bad depending on your point of view. I have to to say I'm pretty impressed with the new version of Konqueror. I went to youtube and played a video without having to do anything to enable it. I did find a bug with importing bookmarks and have submitted a bug report for it. FYI, I made this posting from Konqueror.

[spotslayer]

27 kubuntu upgrades this afternoon.

[greggh]

Just tried out KDE 4 with the live Kubuntu CD. The new KDE menu launcher interface at the bottom left, is it called kicker?, really annoys me. Is there any way to set it's behaviour so that when you hover on a menu item that contains more sub-menu items within it, that they pop up to the right like they used to in KDE 3.5? I'm clicking and clicking all over the place to get to specific apps and then clicking and clicking to get back to the parent menus. This is supposed to be an improvement in the interface?

[allix]

The menu launcher is called "the slab" it was developed by opensuse. I have not really played around with the behavour of it, all i know is the 3.5.x launcher is not comming back.

[greggh]

The menu launcher is called "the slab" it was developed by opensuse. I have not really played around with the behavour of it, all i know is the 3.5.x launcher is not comming back.

Well, that is bad news. I absolutely hate the new launcher interface. It also seems that the box when it is open is unnecessarily big.

[Tsuroerusu]

The menu launcher is called "the slab" it was developed by opensuse. I have not really played around with the behavour of it, all i know is the 3.5.x launcher is not comming back.

Actually, it's the GNOME menu that's callled Slab, the one you are referring to is called Kickoff.

The menu launcher is called "the slab" it was developed by opensuse. I have not really played around with the behavour of it, all i know is the 3.5.x launcher is not comming back.

Well, that is bad news. I absolutely hate the new launcher interface. It also seems that the box when it is open is unnecessarily big.

In the KDE 3.5 version you can actually resize the menu like you can make a movie window smaller or bigger by dragging one of the corners, try that and see if you can get it to be smaller.

[greggh]

Thanks for the info and suggestion Tsuroerusu. I'll give it a shot.

[allix]

The menu launcher is called "the slab" it was developed by opensuse. I have not really played around with the behavour of it, all i know is the 3.5.x launcher is not comming back.

Actually, it's the GNOME menu that's callled Slab, the one you are referring to is called Kickoff.

Being a gnome user i should know that