Updated from KDE 4.3.5, saw memory consumption dropped a little bit, speed increased by a few percent.

But when I added a widget to the panel, I could not see the widget. And when I double-clicked the same widget in the widget list (intending to remove it -- if it is a T' flip-flop), the widget was still on the panel, alive, and hidden.

Then I gave up, and wanted to change the font for the digital clock, and KDE was frozen. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace worked, fortunately.

I think for my workshop presentation next week, I'd better use xfce.

Thanks for the post. I guess I'll stick to XFCE for now as well then. I was getting curious about KDE to see if its getting more stable. Looks like there is no rush to try it. I dumped KDE3.5 in favour of XFCE a year or two ago. KDE 4 has been relatively unstable, although I guess it could depend on setup (and some components being worse than others).

One question I have on the new series of KDE is around HAL. I see xorg is dumping hal in the latest versions (from 1.8.0), its also gone from Gnome. How is that on KDE? Does the KDE 4.4 series still need HAL?

Mons
PS! hope my extra question here fit with the thread (around state of KDE 4.4.x...

True the widgets are a nuisance. You can't remove them from the widget menu like earlier. KDE 4.4.4 coming in 1st June I think.

I havent problems with kde 4.4.3 on my current.
Have you try to load the plasmoids from console?

I am sorry I am new to KDE4. How to do that?

Now I played a little bit more in KDE 4.4.3 and saw it really somewhat faster than 4.3.5. I most often have problems when my action involves setting up something. For example, changing desktop background or changing the font of the clock.

@monsm I will check but AFAIK KDE 4.4.x still relies on HAL at least for auto mount of removable devices (as does XFCE, if I remember well).

So if you want auto mounting and get completely rid of HAL you'll at least have to set-up udev rules for that purpose -- which I did, but as I use Fluxbox that's a different story.

Other than that I did install xorg-server-1.8.1 on slackware64-current and it seems to work pretty well.

guanx,to load plasmoids from console use: plasmoidviewer
like: plasmoidviewer gmail-plasmoid

If there are errors you will see these...

Sorry about my english!

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