KDE 4 annoyances
So I'm currently using KDE 4.4 at work and 3.5 at home.
I agree with these people (especially the 1st):
http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2010/05/kubuntu-lucid-and-kde-4-reactions.html
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/40388
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/15/kde-4-beauty-only-gets-you-so-far/
A few more annoyances (or ones I want to highlight):
1) I had a bunch of panel icons to launch ssh sessions and xemacs windows on all the servers I deal with, apparently this can't be done in KDE4 (or rather it is a horribly complex workaround). Also you can't actually start konsole up with a specific profile, which doesn't really matter since you can't set a background image
2) The menu editor is horribly broken. I tried to add a new top level sub menu. It kept getting sucked into one of the existing sub menus. Then I discovered that no matter where I moved it or deleted it or what, after I saved changes it appeared in every location I had put it in. Restarting X and rebooting didn't help. Even if the editor claimed I had deleted it, there it was in the menu. I finally found a random forum post (for another distro) that told me where the actual menu file was. I opened it up and OMFG it was a mess. It looks like some sort of XML file and there was a about 50 entries for my new submenu some with a deleted tag, some with a notdeleted tag and all completely in the wrong place. i chopped them all out and won't be editing the menu again.
3) Adding an item to the panel. Does not seem possible unless it is already a widget. It is possible to add an existing menu item to the panel. however as i mentioned in the previous item i won't be editing the menu again so I won't be able to add any of my own items to the panel.
4) while attempting #2 and #3, I some how got an icon on the desktop. I could not get it back on the panel where it belonged. Now I don't know what I did, but it is completely gone from the desktop and the panel. I don't know what it did b/c I had never gotten around to clicking on it.b Also my desktop folder or whatever is now missing too. But that stupid thing in the upper right corner is still there.
5) Wallpapers can't go across screens. Each screen has to have its own wallpaper. This was a nice feature in 3.5.
The real question is when do I throw in the towel and install another desktop environment?
[Edit: Added a link]
I agree with these people (especially the 1st):
http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2010/05/kubuntu-lucid-and-kde-4-reactions.html
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/40388
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/15/kde-4-beauty-only-gets-you-so-far/
A few more annoyances (or ones I want to highlight):
1) I had a bunch of panel icons to launch ssh sessions and xemacs windows on all the servers I deal with, apparently this can't be done in KDE4 (or rather it is a horribly complex workaround). Also you can't actually start konsole up with a specific profile, which doesn't really matter since you can't set a background image
2) The menu editor is horribly broken. I tried to add a new top level sub menu. It kept getting sucked into one of the existing sub menus. Then I discovered that no matter where I moved it or deleted it or what, after I saved changes it appeared in every location I had put it in. Restarting X and rebooting didn't help. Even if the editor claimed I had deleted it, there it was in the menu. I finally found a random forum post (for another distro) that told me where the actual menu file was. I opened it up and OMFG it was a mess. It looks like some sort of XML file and there was a about 50 entries for my new submenu some with a deleted tag, some with a notdeleted tag and all completely in the wrong place. i chopped them all out and won't be editing the menu again.
3) Adding an item to the panel. Does not seem possible unless it is already a widget. It is possible to add an existing menu item to the panel. however as i mentioned in the previous item i won't be editing the menu again so I won't be able to add any of my own items to the panel.
4) while attempting #2 and #3, I some how got an icon on the desktop. I could not get it back on the panel where it belonged. Now I don't know what I did, but it is completely gone from the desktop and the panel. I don't know what it did b/c I had never gotten around to clicking on it.b Also my desktop folder or whatever is now missing too. But that stupid thing in the upper right corner is still there.
5) Wallpapers can't go across screens. Each screen has to have its own wallpaper. This was a nice feature in 3.5.
The real question is when do I throw in the towel and install another desktop environment?
[Edit: Added a link]