Well… it’s gone… And I didn’t even use it for a day. I liked the desktop effects; and, as I mentioned in my comment, they worked better on my system than compiz; and I liked the comic strip widget.
Overall I think the whole thing looked and felt quite nice and dispite my disagreeing with the KDE team’s development model of “scrap our previous work and rebuild from scratch over a completely different framework”, I liked my brief KDE 4.1 experience.
Two things killed it for me:
1) It screwed up my sound. I can make sounds play as the root user, but as a normal user I cannot make it work… this wasn’t immediate, only after a reboot was it apparent. I can only put it down to KDE’s sound server getting in the way. It kinda reminds me of years ago when I used to use Slackware 10.0 and I had to disable arts because I didn’t understand how to make things play through it…
2) I can no longer mount devices as a normal user….I’ve come across this problem before with other distributions and not been able to solve it without resorting to using a file manager that automatically slaps HAL about… this kind of shit makes me long for the days of the 2.4 kernel when you mounted devices on the command line yourself and it just worked…
Thank you very much… needless to say, I am quite annoyed by these things. I’ve currently got Synaptic removing the KDE4 packages in the hope that with them gone and another reboot things will operate as per my previous configuration…. I’ll be back on here to report my progress if it doesn’t!
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