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RTFT. Read the thread.

 

KDE4 is not complete, and the interface is NOT representative of the final interface.

 

The KDE4 release was to announce a stable _FOUNDATION_ -- the libraries and technology that KDE4 is built upon.

 

While I think they have versioned it differently, or named the release better, that's the way it is. the KDE4 desktop itself is NOT stable or ready for use.

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For the record, Archlinux has an unofficial modded KDE branch, named kdemod, which alongside KDE3, offers very fresh, bleeding edge KDE4 packages- you can hardly find something newer in any other distro.

They are working fairly decently, and without serious crashes. Factly, it's the only desktop I have currently installed aside from my main one (XFCE4 that is).

All that said, you cannot use ArchLinux, or KDE4, without getting your feet wet. Bleeding edge comes at a price.

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Well - by installing a few distros I got the linux bug back. So far Im on Mandriva. My .02

 

First boot

This thing is slick. I had nvidia drivers installed and compiz on first boot. Man that rocked.

 

KDE3

very nice - just like the rest of the KDE distros.

 

MCC

Very nice "Control Panel" that a lazy man like myself likes.

 

I installed KDE4. Thats when the pain started. Took me a while to figure out how to install it - until I read somewhere on the forum what package to install. Like others have said on this thread its a KDE4 problem and not a distro issue. KDE4 is junk IMO for the current status. I have high hopes though.

 

I booted to KDE4 - hit that widget button on the top right and selected pager widget. Moved the pager to the top of the screen. Then I browsed to the konsole app from the menu - rightclick on placed it on the taskbar.

 

logout out > logged back in. None of the work I just did saved. It was a default KDE4 screen. Seems Mandy KDE4 also don't save me stuff :(

 

Also I dont use xinerama for my dual screens. Each screen has its own taskbar / menus. Works great in KDE3 but left screen nogo in KDE4 (again).

 

I have another issue the mandy but thats for another thread.

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