hi

For KDE4.2 Kubuntu 8.10

How to change action proposed by plugable device manager plasmoid when an audio cd, for ex, is inserted, it propose to play it with kscd which do not work at all, and I want amarok instead.

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A System Settings control module has been added to KDE 4.3, which will make this easier to manage.

bcooksley wrote:A System Settings control module has been added to KDE 4.3, which will make this easier to manage.

This is the 2nd question I ask here and the 2nd time the answer is: it will be in KDE4.3, I have many more question to ask about many things that do not work since I switched from 3 to 4 (hopefully I didn't stay a long time enough to 4.0 and switched quickly to 4.2), and I suspect many of these question will have the same answer.
My question is now why such a regression in functionalities !!?? I that the Windows wanabee effect that pushed KDE developers to sacrifice functionalities and ease to configure depends of visual effects and what in France we call "bling-bling" look'n'feel ??? just a question (only a very little bit of irony, no sarcasm).

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The reason for lost functionality was because KDE ported from Qt3, to Qt4, which meant that quite a bit of code simply had to be completely rewritten, or was rewritten to take advantage of new Qt frameworks. There was also a drive to perform everything in a platform agnostic manner, which is why we have Phonon and Solid.

Kicker had also become unmaintainable, and was full of corner case bugs, and was scrapped and replaced with a new flexible framework which took careful attention to avoid corner cases. This framework is known as Plasma.

Some functionality was also centralized to avoid confusion ( date format for instance ) and ensure consistency.

The developers are now steadily adding in lost functionality, which was stripped out so that KDE could release and start getting feedback, so that bugs introduced by porting, or now made visible could be fixed, and so application developers had a stable framework to build on.

So if all of that was known IMHO the error of such distributions like kubuntu was to release it with KDE4 instead of staying with 3. But I know the "always having the latest release of something" effect is what most people are looking for, that's why I usually work with a stable Debian , Kubuntu is for home fun and people I made switch from Windows to Linux (I should say that since 8.10 and KDE4 some went back to Windows because of so many bugs unfortunately). Anyway I'll continue to ask my questions here that's a way to make things going on too after all and that's what developers need: feedback of any kind, if and when possible constructive criticism.

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ps: excuse my bad and confuse English please