[ale] Goodbye KDE 4!

[James Sumners]

My grandfather's machine used KDE 3 until recently. He died on
December 19, after which I decided to update his computer since
visiting family were using it. Along with the system update came KDE
4. Boy am I glad I didn't let KDE 4 get installed when he was still
using that machine. It was a radical change, and not for the better.
_I_ got so frustrated with it that I removed KDE and installed XFCE 4.

That seems to be the trend. Torvalds left KDE 4 for GNOME recently as well[1]:
"I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I
switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do
what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is
painful for users and they can choose to use something else."

[1] -- http://tinyurl.com/c35dnx

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Jim Philips <philips_jim at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> As a loyal KDE fan since the 2.0 days, it was hard for me to migrate to
> Gnome. But two things drove me crazy:
>
> 1. The database, Akonadi, for storing contacts and other PIM data, is
> just riddled with annoying bugs. I got authentication dialogs every time
> I opened Kontact. Even though the dialog boxes had a "Remember Password"
> button, it never served its purpose. There is an open bug on the way
> Akonadi handles IMAP settings, but I don't know when it will be fixed.
> Several times, my IMAP settings simply disappeared and had to be
> re-entered.
>
> 2. KDE 4 doesn't work well with newer nVidia cards. I have seen the
> reports on this and it really is more nVidia's fault than KDE's. But I
> got a little tired of my whole system slowing down every time I loaded a
> new Web page. There are some tweaks that will mitigate the performance
> problems, but Gnome positively flies on comparison with KDE in carrying
> out the same tasks.
>
> Anyway, if you're running KDE 4, watch out for these two things. Many
> people are irritated by other issues with KDE 4, but I was prepared to
> live with it until recently.



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