KDE2 annoyances

[Lucas Vogel]

I recently downloaded and installed the new KDE for my SuSE 6.4 machine.
While I love the new look and widget set, I have a couple major complaints:

1. Is it me, or has it gotten much more complicated to use? When I first
installed it, it took me almost an hour to figure out how to turn those
blasted sounds off when you log in and out. What gives? I think the
usability of the UI is starting to take a plunge, which is kind of
disappointing.

2. I selected a website out of my Netscape bookmarks with the right-click
menu and opened up the glimmer web page. It loaded the page with konqueror,
which was fine and all, until I went to download the RPM. Suddenly Konqueror
kept crashing. I then copied and pasted the URL into netscape and downloaded
it. I was doing something with kpackage and whatnot, installing the rpm into
my system, and then I get another crash message. Now I have no icons, and no
right-click menu. 

Is it me or is the KDE still in beta? What gives? Am I going to have to
continually reboot X(or even the whole system) just to keep the KDE alive?
Should I switch to GNOME?(a baited question if I ever asked one...)


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Lucas Vogel, Software Developer
Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Inc.
lvogel@exponent.com
(623)587-6739