{"id":11513,"date":"2009-02-20T03:36:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T01:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11513"},"modified":"2009-02-20T03:36:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T01:36:06","slug":"another-look-at-kde-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/20\/another-look-at-kde-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Another look at KDE 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Last time <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/24\/there-is-hope-for-kde-4\/\">I wrote about KDE 4<\/a>, I said that it wasn&#8217;t very usable for me.\u00a0 Recenlty, the much praised upgrade to KDE 4.2 became available via Fedora updates.\u00a0 So I got it and switched to KDE for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say?\u00a0 Quite an improvement indeed.\u00a0 Mostly stable, with only a few issues, which are nicely balanced out by nice desktop effects, overall graphics, and plasmoids.\u00a0 A few things moved around and I had to look for them (such as keyboard shortcuts for switching between desktops), but overall it was a pleasant experience.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I back to Gnome for now?\u00a0 Because of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>couldn&#8217;t manage to make KDE 4.2 work properly with two monitors (major issue)<\/li>\n<li>got a bit annoyed by KDE 4.2 not waking up properly from suspend\u00a0 (not always, but often enough)<\/li>\n<li>also got annoyed by it not always coming back properly from screensaver mode<\/li>\n<li>couldn&#8217;t find graphical configuration for power managment (my laptop kept suspending when idle for 5 minutes with no power plugged in)<\/li>\n<li>a few other minor things here and there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be back to KDE very soon.\u00a0 The progress between KDE 4 and KDE 4.2 is huge and if it goes like this, then I won&#8217;t have to wait long.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Last time I wrote about KDE 4, I said that it wasn&#8217;t very usable for me.\u00a0 Recenlty, the much praised upgrade to KDE 4.2 became available via Fedora updates.\u00a0 So I got it and switched to KDE for a couple of days. 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