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KDE4.2 – mmm, still getting used to it :P

| February 7th, 2009

I was kind of “afraid” of moving from my KDE3.5 to KDE4. You know, this KDE3.5 is the one I’ve been running for the last 3 years, and was working like a charm. Everything in its right place, with my themes, my icons, chinese input, accesskeys, OOohh God, 3 years with the same installation aren’t 3 days :D

But the time comes to everything, and it knocked KDE’s door as well. I was willing to have those fancy widgets in my desktop and also have a taste of the so called semantic-desktop (nice catch indeed). I tried KDE4 beta/rc and kde4.1, and I was very confused on “why have they released something so _unfinished_?”.. and then just got back to my old 3.5.

Today, I finally had the time to put KDE4.2 running in my notebook, and I’m really impressed with KDE’s evolution. It’s getting mature and very usable… works out of the “emerge”, I’d say (Yeah, I use Gentoo), and I feel the time came to me to move on and start using 4.2 :)

Till now everything is fine. Had some troubles with Akonadi server, but got them resolved quickly. I’m afraid I’ll have some hard time to bring all my kdepim configurations back, but this is another story, another post.

So far so good!

Kudos for the KDE team!

Posted on Saturday, February 7th, 2009 at 2:08 pm in apps, english, gentoo, linux | rss feed for comments| Leave a response, or trackback

2 Responses to “KDE4.2 – mmm, still getting used to it :P”

  1. February 8th, 2009 at 12:59 pm Thiago Jung Bauermann Says:

    By coincidence I just upgraded my personal notebook to KDE 4.2 this weekend too, but I had a different experience than you had.

    I already lost count of the number of times that plasma-desktop died on me, network-manager-kde simply *cannot* talk to network-manager 0.7, and amarok 2.0 indexed my music in a completely crazy way (I don’t think “And Your Bird Can Sing” is sung by Enya).

    I already downgraded Amarok to 1.4.x, and seriously considered downgrading the rest of the desktop back to 3.5.x, but I’ll wait a bit in the hope that a 4.2.1 will come out soon…

    Everybody is saying 4.2 is at least good enough for daily use, so perhaps it’s just the Debian packages which are hosed, I don’t know.

  2. February 8th, 2009 at 6:54 pm trustlix Says:

    It might be something with the Debian packages, because I used it for the whole weekend without a crash… Amarok2 is promising, but still lacking many “can’t live without” features – for instance, I couldn’t find a way to fetch covers for the albums on my iPOD…

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