Moaning about the problems with software is one thing and it might serve as a warning to people considering that software, but more important is to find solutions to problems and explain them. In fact, while I was working on solving my KDE4 problems I also ended up fixing a long-standing KDE3 issue where the fix was made possible by KDE4. So it’s not all regressions, there is progress! I’d still like to wait a few more minor versions of KDE4 before declaring it a success, but bear in mind that a lot of these problems only exist because of complex settings I had in KDE3. If someone does a clean install of KDE4, or has been largely using the defaults from KDE3, then their initial experience of the new version should be vastly different from the impression I am giving of it. Either way, I hope that the solutions below are helpful to people, just as I am grateful for the people that first documented the solutions that I link to.
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