Ronnie Tucker

Well, i’ve been using KDE4 now for two whole days and i’ve been noticing some ‘quirks’ which i’m not too keen on.

• Why is it so difficult to create a new folder? I right click in Dolphin/Konqueror and choose Create New from the menu and… no, there’s no New Folder option. Ok, what about the File menu? Nope, not there either. Only way I could find to create a new folder was to right click in the left (tree view) panel in Konqueror and create a new folder there. How annoying! Especially ironic since both Konqueror and Dolphin are ‘file managers’. An update has been released which fixes the ‘New Folder’ problem. Hurrah!

• I still can’t find a way to make the items in the task bar smaller. They’re huge and I really preferred it when they were linked to the desktop they are running on. So for example I could have Thunderbird running on desktop four and it wouldn’t show up on desktop 1, 2 or three.

But on the bright side:

• I do like how you can download new widgets and make an uber-pretty desktop. That I do like!

• Dolphin has the option to have a mini console window at the bottom of it which is quite funky. Clicking on a folder automatically enters the command into the console so the console is always up to date with where Dolphin is. Nice!

But even with the gripes I still like KDE4, I’m sticking with it but just need to find where I should file bug reports as I’ve noticed a few things that I’d like to point out although I’m sure most of my small moans have been reported by now…