[SGVLUG] SGVLUG Digest, Vol 180, Issue 7

[Alan Gruskoff]

*I did initially have some confusion going from KDE 3 to KDE4 while 
installing openSUSE 11.1. I like KDE and am one of those that always 
wants the lastest version.  I just kept telling the Software Updater to 
get KDE 4 things and it took care of making everything match. The 
everyday patches/updates Update module seems to work pretty well in SUSE 
11.1.

I will say I do NOT care for the Plasma Workspace on the KDE 4 Desktop. 
The widgets get in the way and dont do much. I think some of the KDEs 
got OS X envy. They also changed the Desktop folder to be unusable 
directly as a file system. Desktop objects are no longer files but icons 
that don not show up in a file manager. You can no longer drop a file on 
the desktop as a file, nor Drag&Drop a Desktop icon, nor Right-Click to 
"Open With" or Copy. They really took a huge step backwards with this 
Plasma Desktop.

Alan Gruskoff*
> It seemed to work at first, but after I logged in with
> KDE 4 instead of KDE 3, and /trying/ to add an "applet" [which I
> couldn't configure], I somehow managed to kill off the "greeter" applet,
> so I couldn't log in "graphically" [I could still log in as a normal
> keyboard session and run "startx", but that only got me a kde3 desktop,
> not kde4.]