???????? Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:09:08 +0300, Joseph Thames <beartham at gmail.com>:
> Why does this KDE4 version of Konsole not have search and history save > capabilities, like the KDE 3.5 version did? I have all these desktop > Icons > in KDE3.5 that invoke, size, and color Konsole windows when invoked by > Icons. Am I going to have to rebuild them using Gnome Terminal? Use profiles for this. http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-baseapps/konsole/profiles.html > Why in KDE4 can I not create desktop icon launchers when logged in as > root? > I could do that in KDE 3.5, enabling me to configure the desktop of my > other user accounts. Do not know how this things are connected, but use /etc/skel, directly user folders in /home or Kiosk to configure things for all users. > Why is there no window-list applet in KDE4, like in KDE 3.5? You have a > lot > of cute useless applets that nobody needs or wants, and the vital one for > many-desktop users in missing. Sorry, but it was here all the time. Just add the corresponding widget to any panel or desktop. Tutorial on how to add a widget: http://userbase.kde.org/images.userbase/f/f0/Plasma_howto-widget-panel-add-45.gif > I don't understand why you guys think KDE4 is better than KDE 3.5, and > you > can foist it on a user community with no backward compatibility? Its > about > functionality not cosmetics. You have foisted all this pretty plasma > garbage on us but your functionality is marching backwards. No comments. See above. > I have been using KDE for 15 years, on Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Centos. > I > first ran into KDE4 on Kubuntu 9.04, and found it bleeding-edge junk. So > I > went to Centos 5.5 which came with KDE 3.5. Now I just opened a new VPS > with Centos 6.2, and you got me with your KDE4 junk again. Three years > later and still no windows-list applet. See above. > Is there any wonder that there are over 200 balkanized strains of Linux? > Here is the reason! All you creatively-addicted kids don't know when to > stop changing things because you don't have to live with the > consequences. > Haven't you ever heard the adage: If it ain't broke don't fix it? You > should take the lesson of Emacs, which I started using in 1986. Now it > has > become such an incomprehensible pile of shit, that it can only be used > carefully in GUI mode. I think its menus were written by aliens. You should tell it to Mark, Steve or Tim. ;) > Nevertheless, I am still loyal to KDE, as I made the jump from Gnome > when I > moved from Unix to Linux long ago. So help me please! Hope this helps. Best regards, Yuri
