Re: KDE4 vs. GNOME (please no religion :-)

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 On Sunday 06 July 2008, Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> > Obviously, this is just your opinion vs mine, but I don't see how KDE is 
> > starting to be more "Screwed up"? Works great for me. Do you mean the 
> > desktop functionality and embedded apps, like systemsettings (kcontrol in 
> > old parlance) plasma, etc? If you mean other apps, which ones? Any 
> > missing functionality in this transition period is filled by running KDE3 
> > and 4 apps together. Works nicely. 4.1 is great, and getting better every 
> > day. KDE 3.5.0 even, with k3b, amarok and Konsole ranks right up there 
> > with other indispensable things such as iced tea and sushi. 
> > 
> > Certainly, nobody is pushing you to use the newer KDE 4.x, right? You can 
> > stick with the same ole 3.x and your apps for a year or more and still be 
> > productive as you ever were... 
> 
> A couple of things that are different between KDE4 and KDE3 is how one 
> sets various options. For instance, in KDE3 I was able to configure the 
> task bar such that when is got crowded, it would stack multiple 
> instances in one slot. In KDE4, there are only 3 task manager settings: 
> Show Tooltips 
> Show only tasks from the current desktop 
> Show only tasks from the current screen.