Allo, Allo:
I am a longtime Kubuntu user who is having concerns about upgrading to KDE4. The reason is that my scrapbook has thousands of images that I use as wallpaper in 3.5.9. These refresh every minute. My screensaver also uses my scrapbook on a one minute refresh.
The problem revolves around the new KDE4 no longer using desktop icons. They are bundled into a folder on the desktop. This folder centralises the desktop icons and covers up too much of one area on the screen for my liking. My 3.5.9 desktop icons are spread out over the real estate and do not cause a viewing problem.
My research suggests that KDE4 can expand a folder to cover the screen so it appears that the icons are on the desktop but no background is available. In theory, this will be developed in KDE4.2 but I do not know what will be developed. This caused me to leave MS Windows because MS kept making it more difficult to customise the program. I am afraid that this will happen to KDE. The more complicated the code becomes, the less flexibility the user has to customise or configure the program.
For me this is a show stopper if a work around is not found!
The random minute views of my photos going back eight years is fantastic. With the old 35mm slides, I would view them once a week, then once a month, then once year and then forget about them.
Can anyone give me any information about the slideshow problem so that I can make a more informed decision?
Thanks for the help, ladies and gentleman.
I am a longtime Kubuntu user who is having concerns about upgrading to KDE4. The reason is that my scrapbook has thousands of images that I use as wallpaper in 3.5.9. These refresh every minute. My screensaver also uses my scrapbook on a one minute refresh.
The problem revolves around the new KDE4 no longer using desktop icons. They are bundled into a folder on the desktop. This folder centralises the desktop icons and covers up too much of one area on the screen for my liking. My 3.5.9 desktop icons are spread out over the real estate and do not cause a viewing problem.
My research suggests that KDE4 can expand a folder to cover the screen so it appears that the icons are on the desktop but no background is available. In theory, this will be developed in KDE4.2 but I do not know what will be developed. This caused me to leave MS Windows because MS kept making it more difficult to customise the program. I am afraid that this will happen to KDE. The more complicated the code becomes, the less flexibility the user has to customise or configure the program.
For me this is a show stopper if a work around is not found!
The random minute views of my photos going back eight years is fantastic. With the old 35mm slides, I would view them once a week, then once a month, then once year and then forget about them.
Can anyone give me any information about the slideshow problem so that I can make a more informed decision?
Thanks for the help, ladies and gentleman.
.The complaints have been that KDE4.0 doesn't have all the functionality that KDE3.5.9 has. But that lack of functionality is not the "vision" that was mentioned here. Those absent features are absent because KDE4 is a big effort, and the initial release was more about preparing the groundwork for upcoming versions of KDE4. They are not absent because KDE-devels decided that "the future KDE will have less functionality than 3.5 has". It was due to the fact that implementing all those features would have been too much, considering the manpower, resources and time. But they will make their comeback.
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