After reading some rather negative things about how 4.x is so different than 3.5, I felt I had to share the things that I found I absolutely love about KDE 4.x. Maybe balance the universe out a bit. Oh, and some suggestions in there to improve things a bit hopefully!

The first thing that I love, and that I don't think I can live without now, is the home menu kicker (Quick Access.) Down in the bottom left as of the new 4.1.2, I believe. This thing is awesome. it's quick and snappy, it looks good, and it's incredibly functional. What I would like to see is an option to go single-click, even if the global option is double-click. It would make it even quicker to use for me. More on this kicker later.

Second thing that I love? The new kmenu. I know it gets a lot of flack- I totally hated it when I first tried it. After using it for a few weeks, I've found it's a lot quicker. Might as well just have everything you use at the front anyway. And it's much sexier. But there is always room for improvement. I'd like to see the menus at the bottom be selected with rollover, and the buttons to go to previous folders be rollover as well. All selectable options, of course!

One feature that I think is a better solution than anything in any other OS is the New Device Notifier. Very unobtrusive when you plug a device in, and with a single click you can unmount. Love it. Very OSX-ish. The high point is that it's not cluttering your desktop, and it's super-easy. The only problem I have with it, is that it's on my task manager. Kinda annoying there, in my opinion. Maybe we could move the functionality to the Quick Access menu? Just join the two into one. Same one-click access, but now only one button.

Some excellent KDE improvements that hopefully indicate the direction things are going. There are some really awesome things that nobody else is trying to do, and for that I am grateful. That's not to say I'm not having some problems with it too, like a general slowness apparently due to my Nvidia card, and a lack of a second row of tasks on the toolbar... but these are things that I can get used to for the time being, because I know they will change very soon, and having to wait a short amount of time is worth using an awesome DE like KDE 4.

-Keaton

What I love most is the vastly improved syntax highlighting and code folding in Kate. And the tabs plugin!

(also, I love my little fuzzy clock that informs me that it's "almost noon" at 10:07)

Yes... it is always good to know when lunchtime is. I guess the fuzzy clock reads time like I do.

Turns out there actually is an option to select the bottom tabs in the kicker by rollover...

i am also a nv card user. it seems that 3.59 is faster than 4.1.2.maybe the nv driver is the devil.sometimes,bad performance drive me mad.
whispered:i think kde4 with oxygen is better than mac os x.