... just wanted to throw that out there.

That's cool--you threw it out.......But what is it?

An acronym (eg High As White Toast)?

The word "hot" spoken in some local dialect?

here and works terribly?

^
Or Haphazard And Works Terribly

Hampers All Who Try to use it?

Come on guys give slack1992man and KDE a break.

I've never been a big KDE fan myself and agree with most that the previous KDE4 series release were lacking in a lot of areas.

However I must say that I'm very impressed with 4.2 and think the KDE developers have done a great job.

Don't just jump on the "Let's bag KDE" bandwagon... give it an honest try and see if you can really justify the complaints being made.

Now just so you know I'm a die hard console/fluxbox user and not even close to anything resembling a KDE fan-boy.

I have 4.2 running on my 2 year old Asus laptop and with compositing configured properly via the built-in kwin it really is pretty slick and very usable.

So give it a spin and if you don't like it, please either make suggestions on how it can be improved or just keep using something else.

I agree. I mentioned to someone today in IRC that KDE1, KDE2, and KDE3 never really clicked with me for some reason. I like GNOME and Xfce, but over the last few years I moved almost exclusively to tiling window managers (or sometimes one of the *box window managers). And I stayed away from spending any real time with KDE4 until the release of 4.2. However, I installed the 4.2 packages in -current I will admit that KDE 4.2 seems really, really nice as far as my very first impressions go. I am going to stick with it for awhile so I can really get a feel for what it can do. Kudos to the KDE devs and thanks for all the hard work!

Pat seems to have given KDE4.2 thumbs up as well:


I have yet to try a livecd of KDE4.2, and now it seems that my optical drive on my notebook has failed, and now I need to get a replacement. Doh!

Noone is criticizing or attacking the OP---just a bit of fun with the word "HAWT".

My first impression of KDE 4.X was negative. Perhaps 4.2 will turn me around......

I loaded the beta over the weekend and upgraded to 4.2 today. It looks great. I've run int o some very minor issues and was able to resolve them fairly easily. If you are running Slack on a non-production box, I'd recommend it.

I agree, my own previous post was done with a grin - albeit with a little bit of bite toward KDE4. I hope it was taken in that spirit.

For what it is worth, I was a long time KDE and Mandrake/Mandriva user but the 2009 release of Mandriva with KDE4 literally drove me to convert all my systems to Slackware.

Most other users on my net are now Slackers with KDE3.5, but I have kind of unexpectedly become a full time Slacker with Fluxbox.

I always liked playing with Fluxbox in the past and would use it for many database intensive tasks which also required a GUI as it was notably faster than with KDE. But now that I have settled in with Fluxbox and learned my way around it's configs I never look back, and haven't started KDE on my own boxen for a couple of months now!

KDE is HAWT = Hastens use of Alternative Windowing deskTop managers

Which HAWT?:

HAWT - Hardware appropriate? Will thrill!

KDE4 on my desktop is now my normal working environment. I find it clean and orderly.

It runs OK on my old laptop, but 256MB RAM and 440MB swap space does not leave much in the way of resources for other apps without major disk thrashing.

Is KDE 4 really faster than 3.5? On such machine the difference would be easy to notice.

But what happened to ksirc...