From: Chris on
Chris Whelan wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:44:41 +0000, Folderol wrote:
>
> [...]
> Now the stability of KDE4 is more realistically stable I'm trying
> to get to like it. I'm still finding some things I don't like, and
> the changes to Amarok have ruined it!

Agreed! Those huge buttons look awful....

Amarok is my favourite app in KDE and it's shocking update in KDE4 is
definitely not encouraging me to upgrade.

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From: Chris on
Folderol wrote:

> Or does anyone else think that many of the latest versions of
> common applications are much harder to use than before?
> kwrite
> krename
> k3b
> Are the first few that spring to mind :(

I think the 'k' is a giveaway. KDE4 is a big change across the board,
some apps will have 'got it' and other won't have. YMMV. ;)


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From: Frank Peelo on
Simon J. Rowe wrote:
> Folderol wrote:
>
>> Or does anyone else think that many of the latest versions of common
>> applications are much harder to use than before?
>> kwrite
>> krename
>> k3b
>> Are the first few that spring to mind :(
>
> No, amarok 2 is completely useless and almost unusable compared with 1.4. I
> can't say I've had any problems with k3b though.

I seem to recall, at one time, making an audio CD with k3b. I wanted to
play a podcast in the car. The podcast was well over half an hour. k3b
was able to split it into tracks of 5 minutes or so, to make navigation
easier.

I can't find that option any more! Is it gone, or just hidden? I'm
almost certain it was k3b... I don't do that sort of thing often, so my
memory may be failing. Maybe it was another app?

(Still using 2008.1 with kde 3.5)

Frank
From: Frank Peelo on
Chris Whelan wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:44:41 +0000, Folderol wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> The latest version of k3b doesn't seem to have the bottom layout of
>> quick entries for CD & DVD image files, and hunting for these through
>> the menus is less than intuitive (to put it mildly).
>
> As with earlier versions of K3b, you just right-click on the lower area
> and select what you want to appear from an Add Button menu.

Eek! That's really arcane! You sure there's nothing less unintuitive
available? How about File|New Project?

Frank
From: Frank Peelo on
alexd wrote:
> Meanwhile, at the uk.comp.os.linux Job Justification Hearings, Folderol chose
> the tried and tested strategy of:
>
>> kwrite now uses a small dialogue box at the bottom of the page for
>> things like 'find' entries, so you seem to keep having to scan up and
>> down.
>
> Have to disagree with you there - I can't stand popup windows!

Yes, I'm surprised more editors don't do it this way. I bought EditPad
Pro, years ago, on Windows, and it uses this idea. So you don't have a
dialogue box hiding the text that you're trying to search, getting in
the way. Far better to have it out of the way at the bottom. Should have
taken over the world by now.

Frank
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