KDE Software Compilation 4.4 Beta1 Released

Ooooooh, far from this. I consider myself an early adopter. I love KDE plasma, and all the the flexibility and gadgetry it has to offer.

> As to multiple desktops vs. plasma activities.... Again, I don't see the
> problem here. You still have your multiple desktops, so it's not like that
> feature has been taken away from you. Plasma activities offer you a new
> feature that you may or may not find useful. If you find it useful, great!
> If you don't.... well, don't use it then.

Nope. I work on multiple desktops. I _alwyas_ used multiple wallpapers - different on each desktop. This helped me distinguish between them, and also multiplied my daily intake of eye-candy.

(I also had habit to use mouse wheel to switch desktops, but KDE4 cured me; but this is different story...)

Suddenly - the feature disappears in 4.0. I am using KDE 4 anyway ('early adopter'), while most of my friends are reluctant to switch. I am promised that the feature will be back in 4.3

Then comes 4.3. The feature is not here! I am told that I can 'tie activities to desktop', using terrible user interface. It takes me few minutes to do it, because in the 'zoom out' mode UI becomes almost no responsive at all, and each mouse click takes 10+ seconds. But I succeed.

And then another unpleasant surprise: during the year with KDE4 I learned to work with plasmoids on desktops and loved them. And now I have to re-configure them separately on each virtual desktop. Some of them are really hard to configure.

(Sorry about nagging here, but the bugzilla is so full of complaining like this, that KDE maintainers are probably ignoring it already)