> Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013, 10:59:50 schrieb C W: >> I use KDE 4 on newer >> hardware & TDE on older hardware, and love them both. > > same here :) > in fact, kde4 (> 4.9.4) has now reached a state, where even akonadified > kde-pim > is usable (though still sluggish and somewhat unstable). > plus, it has lots of matured apps, like blogilo, digikam etc. and > konqueror as > a web browser ist really usable (konqueror from TDE is not). > so, for modern hardware, I now recommend kde4. > on older hardware, however, kde4 is a no-go, while TDE still runs fine. > just use another browser (chromium, e.g.) > > Werner While KDE4 has definitely improved, and in fact several components are now quite usable and sometimes even better than their TDE counterparts, the overall usability of the KDE workspace still seems suboptimal to me. I am currently looking into methods of using the improved KDE4 components to enhance portions of TDE (e.g. Konqueror) while keeping the same stability and usability we currently have. Stay tuned. :-) Tim