Comments on: KDE 4.1 Beta 2 – Not Promising http://greentechgirl.com/open-source/kde-41-beta-2-not-promising/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:18:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: nfolken http://greentechgirl.com/open-source/kde-41-beta-2-not-promising/comment-page-1/#comment-74 nfolken Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:47:51 +0000 http://greentechgirl.com/open-source/kde-41-beta-2-not-promising/#comment-74 I also had a lot of the same frustration with the desktop icons in the transition to a widget desktop. Give the "Folder View" Plasmoid a try. Its a widget that sets aside an area of the screen to show the contents of a folder in a normal folder manner. I just set it up to link to my Desktop folder and then deleted all the widget icons. I also had a lot of the same frustration with the desktop icons in the transition to a widget desktop. Give the “Folder View” Plasmoid a try. Its a widget that sets aside an area of the screen to show the contents of a folder in a normal folder manner. I just set it up to link to my Desktop folder and then deleted all the widget icons.

]]> By: dbrion http://greentechgirl.com/open-source/kde-41-beta-2-not-promising/comment-page-1/#comment-73 dbrion Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:27:26 +0000 http://greentechgirl.com/open-source/kde-41-beta-2-not-promising/#comment-73 The big icons borders and mini-icons are meant for touchscreens (there is no right click) and this way of entering data seems very popular (it is used to buy/change train tickets, in France, by people who could not use a mouse nor a keyboard). I agree that KDE4 does not seem usable to-day, but perhaps it is in the same state as the electrical cars 15 yrs ago (they were more polluting than oil powered ones, as one could not get rid of the lead batteries).... The big icons borders and mini-icons are meant for touchscreens (there is no right click) and this way of entering data seems very popular (it is used to buy/change train tickets, in France, by people who could not use a mouse nor a keyboard).

I agree that KDE4 does not seem usable to-day, but perhaps it is in the same state as the electrical cars 15 yrs ago (they were more polluting than oil powered ones, as one could not get rid of the lead batteries)….

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