Bug 165784

Version:           4.1.Beta 2 (using KDE 4.0.83)
Installed from:    I Don't Know
Compiler:          none, OpenSuse Live CDe with KDE 4.1 Beta 2  
OS:                Linux

I have a copy of OpenSuse 11.0 with KDE 4.1.Beta 2. 

I see none of the exciting functionality that I was lead to believe would be available in KDE 4.

Here's what I see. I see no Bugs, everything works fine, I just can't do anything new.

All the functionality that is currently available in KDE 3 is there, I can do all the things with windows that i can do in KDE 3.5.9.

The problem is I was lead to believe, by various KDE 4 devs blogs that I could do some really exciting things with KDE 4, None of that functionality is there, it’s basically 3.5.9 with glossier graphics and these giant Icon things they call plasmoids, but do anything with those Icon things… no way, they just sit there taking up desktop space, until you remove them. Yeah you can move them around and make them bigger.. big deal.

Then there’s the task bar at the bottom it’s too big, it’s not resizable and it’s not hide able. getting icons onto it is fraught, and the functionality is so limited it’s virtually useless.

Then there’s this thing where can zoom in and Zoom out, it’s available from the top RH corner of the desktop. Wow, that is so exciting, it will make the desktop wallpaper bigger and smaller.

All in all I’m very disappointed with KDE4. I was expecting some exciting new functionality (based on the obviously overblown rhetoric emanating from KDE devs), and all I’ve got so far in an unusable desktop environment.

KDE 4.1 Beta 2 is obviously not Beta material, at best I’d place it as Alpha.