KDE is a desktop system, used on a few flavors of linux such as in SUSE and Ubuntu, especially the kde4 flavored release of Ubuntu, known as Kubuntu for the new release, 8.10, Intrepid Ibex. I was just stunned at its lack of services and I dont understand the choices they are making in developing this. I think somebody has really jumped the gun in releasing this software way before its time. I was loving kde 3.5 it had all I needed. But KDE4 is a clusterFxxk. Its the Vista of Linux Desktop now. But I am just left wondering why they ever would have done this to all the loyal Linux Desktop fans out there.

• Dolphin file manager sucks, has fewer features than Konqueror, and has a wierd click and select to open default which is just mysterious.
• Simple problems copying files in from a thumb drive or even from one directory or another
• no screen savers
• no desktop backgrounds supplied bas
• cant have separate backgrounds for desktops
• no intuitive way to place application icons on the application bar
• no way to tweak terminal or not very much
• plasma widgets act weird
• kde4 claims to be a bit more efficent on memory, but maybe its because there are fewer features. Actually, it runs pretty leaky.
• advanced effects killed my display pretty quickly
• makes my nvidia card driver flicker ever 10 seconds – envyNG fixed that…

Its just a real shame to take a community of the most loyal software users out there and kick them in head.

from a quick web search, there are lots of folks who are really frustrated and not a lot that are wow about it. Im going back to GNOME. At least it had features. And ah aint goin’ back until its got stuff I use. Like moving files from one folder to another successfully the first time.

If we are going to be your beta testers, then tell us ahead of time, please guys?