Re: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] KDE 3 users: what is missing in KDE 4?

Hmm...where do I start? ;-) 1. I want to be able to bring up a configuration dialog for *all* of the Desktop and Taskbar settings by right-clicking on the taskbar. All I get when I do that now is a less than helpful stripped down (and ugly) bar with a couple of settings on it. 2. A way to shut down plasma, or at least the UI portion of it. Yes, I know many people love the plasma interface, but many people hate it as well. When I say get rid of it, I mean that ugly "cashew" too (I think you can remove the "cashew" in in KDE4.3 now, but you couldn't for quite a while). 3. A way to easily create a new theme--in KDE3, you could do almost anything with the colors, level of desired effects, etc. 4. Bring back the good old kcontrol--style interface!! My idea of a good time is *not* clicking on icons, only to find that what I wanted was not in that view and having to click back a couple of times before being able to click on a different icon, which still does not contain the desired settings...you get the point. KDE3's reliance on tree views was wonderful from a productivity standpoint, and I hate to see that element largely missing in KDE4. 5. I want desktop previews in the pagers. This is a very useful feature that I sorely miss in KDE4. 6. Bring back the old clock, the one where I could have it display the time, in bold, next to the full date, unbolded. I really, really hate the overall rounded, bulbous look of KDE4, and wish there was an "un-Fisher-Price-it" setting that would streamline the interface and make it sleek again. That means no stacked text in the Taskbar, smaller icons on the Desktop, getting rid of those huge blobs called the play, pause, FF, and rewind buttons in Amarok, etc. Not everyone has or can afford QXGA monitors! 7. Most of all, bring back the overall configurability, and bring back useful context menus! See my complaint in #4; that applies to almost all elements of the KDE4 inerface. It is NOT FUN to have to click multiple time to perform a task that you should have performed in one click under KDE3. There are more, but I'm going to see if these get fixed first. Please don't take this list as an insult; these are some of my major issues with KDE4, and actually, the "new" desktop overall--a lot of these complaints apply to Vista and Mac OSX as well. KDE3 was like a fresh breeze to me compared with those other two. Thanks for the offer to file the bugs! Tim