[gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Built KDE4 last night, it took about 4.5 hours total and built without 
failures. To be safe, I created a new user for testing purposes and 
logged out of my own account. I use entrance as my dm and I find an 
entry for kde-4 in the list of sessions available. So far so good.

First impression: kde4 starts up fast. I had gotten used to waiting up 
to 30 seconds for the splash screen to get through everything it needs 
to.

Konsole works, both 3.5 and 4.0 I don;t get the slow scrolling issue 
another user reported.
Konqueror works, now I have to recreate my custom settings that I have 
grown used to.
Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component.
kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway?
kopete, amarok all work.

The oxygen theme is a vast improvement over Plastik.
I'm still undecided about the default menu, it looks a little in the 
style of XP which I can't stand. I know it''s not the same and maybe 
just a knee-jerk so I'm holding off before coming to an opinion.

All in all, a very nice point-0 point-0 release. After using it for a 
few hours, I can understand what all the hype was about :-)


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Alan McKinnon
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