I have used Linux for quite a number of years. For most of them I always used KDE, always found it functional, reliable. stylish and down right fantastic.
Before I begin my rant, I must point out I know KDE 4 is still a long way for general use. However so far I have found it down right worthless piece of bloated code. (Why Fedora 9 chose to use it and not KDE 3.5.9 is beyond me)
1) It looks like a toy, the default size for desktop icons and the bottom panel is far too large. Lets be serious here, imagine using that on a screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels. Please developers we do not need icons the size of Godzilla.
2) Rotating Icons, is this a joke. Instead of porting more applications over to QT4, we have developers designing icons that can rotate. Right that is going to be useful how? Gee mom, take a look, my "home folder" is upside down.
3) Widgets are unstable, try dragging a widget especially to a menu panel, that usually results in an instant crash. So far that makes them useless.
4) Being able to zoom in and out, seriously what is the point of this? Can anybody please explain to me why this feature would be of importance?
5) Right clicking options are too limited, perhaps this is a curse from the Windows way of doing things. If I right click on something I expect there to be quite a few options, not here at the moment their seems to be add/remove widgets. I do hope more options are added soon.
6) GTK applications look ugly, some of you might ask why is this a problem. My main reason, Firefox is GTK based and as a result looks terrible. Developers please improve GTK rendering, so it can at least be berable to look at.
7) Bloated, lacks features and I get that "lets copy Vista" feeling. KDE guys, please try to make it look original and do not just copy another os.
Until KDE 4 improves on these, I shall be sticking with Gnome.
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