KDE 4.2 Review
I recently did a bunch of package unmasking in my desktop Gentoo installation and did an emerge of KDE 4 .2 and I thought I would share my experiences in my shiny new desktop environment (unfortunately I was unable to see how Amarok2 integrated with KDE 4.2 due to some MySQL embedded compilation issues for 64-bit Linux).
Firstly, KDE 4.2 feels far superior to the KDE 4.1 release. Unfortunately I still experienced crashes on many plasmoids when I was interacting and a few times when I was doing nothing more than launching Firefox. The initial Ozone/Oxygen window decoration is extremely unpleasing on the eyes. The first thing I did after seeing it was to switch the window decoration to Plastik. The KDE Control Center now appears to be a clone of the Mac OS X Preferences manager and sacrifices the ease of fast-clicking through the different configuration options (especially annoying if you need to navigate through multiple parts to find a specific option) for a shiny interface that requires more clicks to find stuff and no expandable tree that lets you see a subset of configuration options before you enter the config screen for a specific option. Most annoying was the “Add Widgets” box. Using the default Oxygen color scheme makes it almost unusable because it leaves it with using white text on a white background. Mousing over leaves white text on a very light blue background (still fairly unreadable) and clicking on a specific widget option leaves white text on a dark blue background (hey, its readable now!).
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