> The big problem for me is SPEED. I think we here know very subjectively the > KDE3.5 flies and KDE4 seems to crawl. There was a very interesting discussion > by Zack Rusin on QT drawing performance: > http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2009/08/2d-in-kde.html > > Solving this problem in a network aware and hardware accelerated way on all > cards, will make a massive difference to KDE4 perception. > Did you read the followup post to that? It looks like the difference is not as big as it seems, and it has many drawbacks. http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-2d-in-kde.html > For me Plasmoids are not vastly useful. I prefer apps in windows to apps on > desktops. I agree! > To be honest I think if Kicker was ported to KDE4 then a lot of > people might be won over. Or a Plasma-lite option. > This was discussed, but nobody came forward to do it. Therefore the community has resorted to filing feature requests on Plasma for kicker-like functions. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il