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I finally more or less completed my switch to KDE4. Thanks the great great KDE maintenance team we have.

Simultaneously, X.org packages were updated so possible problems may have ben triggerred by it more than KDE, though.

At first glance, this new KDE is nice and has great improvements but generally speaking painfully slow..:-)

So, I began deactivating again all visual effects so that my poor old Dell X1 survives the upgrade.

I was also greatly annoyed by losing the "Terminal sessions" which I was very actively using with Konsole. No more "Terminal Sessions" menu in my task bar to connect to various hosts over the network. Bleh. I have to redo everything with Konsole's "profiles".

Also sucking a lot is the default setting for fonts in Konsole (antialiased fonts). It makes scrolling painfully slooooooow. I just deactivated this and it's much much much better.

I also lost my old mail notification utility (Korn). It is still working but having it running leaves a kio_mbox process eating all my CPU. Actually, korn is still something from KDE3, so I might expect it to be rebuilt for KDE4, hopefully. I never found anything as good as it in the gazillion of mail notification utilities we have. Maybe my dear Lazyweb will help.

I'm still left with weird keyboard behaviour which is hard to identify. Apparently the delay before key repetition starts when one leaves a finger on a key has changed in some way and despite my attempts to restore this in the adequate KDE thing, it doesn't change that much. I suspect some weird interaction with X.org stuff. Such "minor" details are very annoying as they interfere with year of (bad) typing habits.

In general, as a very old KDE user (I adopted it back in 2001 or so because of Kbabel), I'm somewhat happy with that upgrade but it will take time to be used to all the new concepts (ah, these "Plasmoids" thing...) and also restore the overall speed of my machine...:-)