polywogsys

OK, So to put it simply, upgrading to Fedora 9 was one of the worst things I could have done. I want my KDE 3.5 back! First off, let me itemize the issues...

1) WTF is up with focus-follows-mouse crashing all of KDE? With focus follows mouse, I have to login with XFCE or on console and rm -rf "~/.kde" to be able to bring it up again. Did anyone test this?
2) WHY OH WHY do my desktop icons come back AFTER I DELETE THEM?
3) WHY OH WHY does my entire system GRIND TO A HALT when I attempt to move a window, or bring a backgrounded window to the foreground?
4) Moving around the K menu is awkward, particularly when you have a lot of menu items.
5a) The task bar takes up too much real estate, and
5b) when you try to minimize the size, none of the system tray icons, or the clock change size... they just get clipped.
6) Oh, and speaking of icons reappearing, WHERE ARE THE ICONS for most of my items?  Many show up with a question mark.
7) When I close a window, half the time there's a staticy digitital artifact white shadow left where the window once was.
8) I turn off sounds for Konsole, and the sounds are still there.
9) I turn off sounds for ALL of KDE by "using system bell instead of notifications"... the sounds are still there
10) I tried to switch themes, and ... it hung kwin (or something did)

4.0.5 a release?? It's not even a release candidate, maybe, maybe in some alternate universe it's what microsoft just released and the Vista UI is a linux desktop environment.

I have been using XFCE since moving to Fedora 9. Everytime I cool down, and my aggravation ebbs, I fire up KDE again, "just to see."