Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > >> I got KDE 4.2.1 installed with only a couple of bugs along the way. >> I'm not impressed: there's some eye-candy, but usability is reduced. >> There's a very limited choice of desktop backgrounds: >> I like the 'No picture, pavement' choice in 3.5.10 with different colors, >> but there's nothing similar in 4.2.1 . >> I did something unexpected & froze a new panel -- 1 CPU at 100 % -- >> & managed to get back to "normal" only by deleting ~/.kde4/share . >> Dolphin is pathetic compared with Thunar, let alone Krusader >> (I've never tried Konqueror as a file manager). >> I can't try the new Gwenview, as some of the new files clash with the old >> & I'm certainly not unmerging the KDE 3 version. >> >> I've gone back to 3.5.10 more or less, but am stuck with 4.2.1's desktop: >> the background, R-click menu & 4.2.1 panel are still there & working >> (no, trying to change it with the 3.5.10 CC has no effect). >> Can anyone suggest what I have to delete to get all of 3.5.10 restored ? >> >> I have a lot of respect for KDE developers over the past few years, >> but they've badly underestimated the size of their task for KDE 4 . >> >> Perhaps I should try Xfce 4.6 with some KDE 4 apps ... (smile) >> > > I would suggest totally getting rid of everything KDE3 related before > trying to go KDE4... I also had lots of problems and conflicts with > both installed. Once I got rid of all traces of KDE3 and started > "fresh" with KDE4, it has been working well.
I suspect using the kdeprefix USE flag would fix a lot of that. Dale :-) :-)
