Duncan schrieb: > Meanwhile, kde4.3.0 still has issues with xinerama (what SB calls > "big screen") mode in some cases (including mine), too.
If I would mean xinerama I would say so. Maybe I am pedantic but xinerama is only a deprecated extension of the X-server, that I never had installed because I didn't need it here because I never even want to stretch my desktop to more then one physical monitor or want to move programms from one display to another by drag and drop. I see that it can be usefull but that what I want is usefull and needed too. > But I've seen several mentions that the problem has been fixed in > trunk, for 4.4, and the fix may or may not make it into 4.3.x. I tested this patch and for my setup without xinerama or xrandr it works like I have it under kde3. One screen with kde on the monitor, one screen only with the black X root window on the TV. With that I wait for kde 4.4 (or 4.3.1 if it gets backported) to give kde a fifth chance. > 4.3 might actually be able to do this now. Each 4.X release has > VASTLY improved plasma, so far, and in this area 4.2 was finally > becoming semi- usable and 4.3 is actually very reasonable, now. If > small is what you want, 4.3 really does allow small now. I have one > panel set as small as it'll allow, looks like 12 px high (horizonal > panel). As 4.3 is still unuseable for me because of the "two different sized screens on one"-bug I mentioned before I can't test that right now and have to wait for kde 4.4. But the live-builds I tried to test the patch had the same problems with scaling icons on small bars. > IIRC the minimum in kicker was 24 px? Yes it is and 24px would be absolutly fine for me but here it didn't work, as a lot of the icons don't scale if reduced to smaller than 40px. They get cut and I have only have half icons. > But I finally got so fed up with amarok I found a different solution. > They killed all the functionality I actually used, while adding a > bunch of junk I'm not interested in. That is exact my point. Hurray a lot of new fancy dingelings but lack of needed and used functions like generic usb audioplayer support. > Have they gotten the winamp/xmms skinnable mini-player back yet? Not the last time I looked into it (a few days after 4.3 was out). > And I never /did/ use all that fancy scoring and etc. functionality. They put so much new stuff in there, why not a import function for the old amarok 1.4 database? I mean one that works and not only imports 10 or so records. > Thus, they can go their way and I'll go mine. I would do that too, but there is no player that fits my needs as much as it amarok 1.4 does and so I think that I use it even if I switch when kde 4.4 is out. I have 8GB RAM so the bloat that comes with it can be absorbed. > I decided there were simply better options available. Could you name a few? What I miss in kde 4.x so far is the run command kicker applet that I had in kde3 as my main way of starting apps. In kde4 I have to use the shortcut to get krunner (is it the name?) and type it there. And I don't like krunner. I don't want any suggestions, I know what I am about to start, thank you. Oh and I miss the weather applet, and the kworldclock background image and… and… and… Can't they just add a feature so that kde4 looks and feels and behaves as kde3 did? Yes I know that it is a dream, but sometimes dreams really come true. Greetings Sebastian
