I like KDE a lot, but I believe among KDE's greatest challenge to overcome is the speed issue. There ought to be no question in any user's mind whether or not the new KDE is substantially faster then all prior editions of KDE.
KDE must move fast forward.

Windows 7 Utimate is so much faster on my same old outdated hardware.
It's refreshing to have something that just work.

KDE lacks a multi-clipboard manager, something not dissimilar to ClipX.
With ClipX you can copy,copy, copy, & paste, paste, paste.

That feature would be nice along with the inclusion of a "PIE" button option.
Songza.fm (website) has that feature.

In terms of looks, KDE can't be beat, but as far as stability is concerned KDE ought to convince Linus T. that KDE means business.
It would be good for KDE to reach a stability akin to the Solaris operating sytem. The KDE of the past wasn't easy.

Especially, when the open window was minimized and you can see it in the lower panel, but it was impossible to retrieve that window.
I know that sounds bizarre, but not unusual. It happened twice.

That bug-a-boo had compelled me to reload the entire operating sytem and even more time wasted later to reload the packages. There were other unsolved mysteries:

1)The clock that wouldn't cooperate, because it had a military state of
mind.
Also, it had a clipboard that just wouldn't work.

2) The fonts & icon sizes had its own mind, too. Icons that was too large
or one couldn't identify it clearly.
Mysteriously fonts have decreased in size awhile writing email, in
Yahoo.

3) A keyboard that had refused to set to (UK) English.

******** Please note, the issues above may have been resolved by now ******
Except for the speed issue!


There are interesting software concepts to help KDE help win over more desktop users.

Example:

1) Maybe Konqueror can be setup link so that pictures (like Youtube) can
auto-play in Xine.


2) KDE is a software, so maybe it can include its own optimizer to boost
performance in Linux.

3) I withdrew the original statement. What is more important is that in KDE
Wallpapers (for those who don't know, it's the world's best!), there
are no archives. If you loose a picture (like the baby Jaguar), and KDE
takes it down, it is gone!

4) Allow feature to post latest driver updates the from within KDE.

6) Implement an auto-temporary file and cache remover/cleaner.

7) Remove Kick-off as the default menu for KDE. Kick-off sometimes gets
stuck. Lancelot makes a whole lot of sense.
Less work for KDE and for users. Take a vote if in doubt.

Opera has a speech feature to control browser by voice..
Text to speech support and voice control? Why not.

9) Support stylus and handwriting to text character recognition (a
conducive feature indeed for tablets, handhelds, and recent touch screen
monitors. The old Sony Ericsson P990 has a real-time touch notepad.
Children would love to use it to draw shapes or play Tic Tac Toe.

10)Allow volume control with a the scroll wheel on the mouse. Or even
better; support a cursor/scanner that can indicate the file size
before clicking on it. This would show a series of numbers as you
move the mouse (like in JWM in X terminal). Something that would help
the Linux community prevent users from clicking on the BOMB!

*The BOMB virus would expand to much greater size than the hard drive,
rendering the desktop useless.*

11) Create a virtual drive so one can open and use an ISO without having
to burn to Floppy or CD.

12) Inspire the linux community to find ways to make KDE much faster.

13) Allow more undo buttons and a right-click menu like Xfce 4.3

KDE has the KDE on Solaris team. Imagine KDE on PLAN 9?

KDE's greatest challenge? I would say, the speed?

Cheers to the KDE Project

There seem to be some missinterpretations.
KDE Software is software, sitting on top of whichever operating system. Nothing more. So something like that

12) Inspire the linux community to find a replacement for udev, & to work
together on spawning a faster hardware detection utility, like a
more powerful Hotplug3.

is not related to KDE at all.

Speaking of speed, that is a two-folded issue. Again, drivers are done on an OS level. But of course, there is still room for improvement on the KDE Software level.

KDE lacks a multi-clipboard manager, something not dissimilar to ClipX.
With ClipX you can copy,copy, copy, & paste, paste, paste.

That feature would be nice along with the inclusion of a "PIE" button option.
Songza.fm (website) has that feature.

I think there is a already a wishlist item in the brainstorm area about that.

2) Serel software,adds synchronisation and integrity-checking to the
operating system. Maybe some help to get things moving faster. Maybe
even as fast as Xara Xtreme, someday.

Again, booting is not up to KDE, it is up the operating system

Maybe even embark on working with Plan 9 community?

In what way?

For 10) support is already available using Hotkeys ( I use it often ) however not with the scroll wheel or other mouse buttons due to a Qt limitation ( there is a very old bug about this )

For 11) DosBOX does quite a good job of emulating DOS.

For 3) On Linux, on such problem exists, as libraries and binaries can co-exist safely, although this is up to the distributor to allow installing them simultaneously, etc.

For 12) Probably unlikely to have udev replaced as it is actually very fast already, and isn't fully in use yet as distributions are deprecating HAL.

For 4) This is manufacturer specific for each BIOS / Motherboard manufacturer / OEM so is not implementable by KDE. In addition, this would require root access, and would be OS specific.

For 9) This is something that needs to be done at the level below KDE in X ( probably working in Tandem with a daemon to decode the input )

prince wrote:7) If possible,work more with wxPython, Wine, XGL, and DirectFB to win more
MS software users. You've done a great job converting different picture
formats!

I'm not sure how this would win more MS-users (except for wine that is).

prince wrote:11) Create an emulator that will allow those with old floppies to read
contents without corrupting the entire os.

Maybe I don't understand what you mean here, but why would one need an emulator to just read files off an old floppy? As long as the floppy is formatted using a filesystem the underlying OS (i.e. Linux, BSD, Solaris) can read, wouldn't Dolphin be sufficient?

prince wrote:1)The clock the won't cooperate, because it has a military state of mind.

What does that mean? It works flawlessly here.

prince wrote: Also, it has a clipboard that just won't work.

In case you mean the copy to clipboard action, this works for me as well.

prince wrote:2) The fonts size has its own mind, too, with either the icon size or the
mysterious shrinking of the fonts, when writing email, in Yahoo.

What do you mean with "mysteriously shrinking of the fonts"?
Do the letters get smaller while you type?

prince wrote:1) Minijos uses VM, a Java Virtual Machine. Maybe some help for Konqueror?

If it is a compatible Java Virtual Machine you can just configure it instead of the whatevern VM you are using right now. This is actually one of the nice things about Konqueror, it doesn't need a Netscape Plugin for running Java applets.

prince wrote:7) If possible,work more with wxPython, Wine, XGL, and DirectFB to win more
MS software users. You've done a great job converting different picture
formats!

Aside from the already mentioned confusing "win more MS software users" in this context, what do you mean with "work more with..."?

prince wrote: Support text to speach such as Braille, for the vision impaired.
Text to speech support and voice control? Why not.

Braille is not a text to speech device, it conveys information through a human's touch sense.
As for text to speech, I think KDE has a text to speech service called kttsd (KDE Text to Speech Daemon).
Generally accessibility is handled at the toolkit level, i.e. Qt supports the AT-SPI protocol for transporting information between applications and accessibility tools such as screenreaders.

prince wrote:10)Allow volume control with a key (maybe the function key), and the scroll
wheel on the mouse.

That does already work, doesn't it?
I can change volume and mute audio with the multimedia keys on my keyboard, additional keyboard shortcuts (I prefer Win+Cursor keys) and scrollwheel on the volume control icon.

Cheers,
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Gentlemen,
Your response has been duly received. I tender my apologies for my draft wasn't completed. I was locked out with the password for the KDE forum.
There were many things that don't belong here. Give me a few moments to edit.
I've just got in,now.