Warp wrote:

> nemesis <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom> wrote:
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> > Then I tried the 11.2 KDE liveCD.  I generally haven't liked KDE, but
>> > KDE4 is relatively new and I wanted to give it a fair shake.  Nice
>> > environment - I actually kinda liked it.
> 
>> yeah, I'm willing to try it too.  It's certainly the most modern GUI
>> environment on Linux right now.  But surely GTK and Gnome will catch
>> up...
> 
>   I tried KDE4 (it's quite easy to switch between window managers by
> simply logging out, selecting the other window manager in the login screen
> and then logging in again), but didn't quite like it compared to KDE3.
> 
>   For one, it's not possible to set the taskbar to autohide (I really
>   can't
> understand why). For another, it's not possible to configure virtual
> desktop switching to the mouse wheel (when used on the background).
> 
>   It was some time that I tried it, though. I don't know if they have
>   fixed
> those problems.
 
These were some of my exact worst problems with KDE4 too. At least the 
version that shipped with Fedora 10 really really sucked compared to the 3.x 
(3.5?) KDE that came with FC6 - which I still use at work.

The KDE4 version that came with FC11 is a bit better though, but I think it 
still has to evolve more before being at the usability level of KDE 3.5.
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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