KDE bug list…

For those few brave souls working on KDE 4, this is my list of bugs I noticed in the first couple hours.  Some may be viewed as belonging to other subsystems.  This is installing KDE 4.1, 32 bit, on a new T-6836 laptop.

• On live CD, font on “read me” came up as unreadable and clipped.
• The whole “add widgets” system is difficult; I keep wanting to add widgets to my task bar.
• Double clicking on a downloaded debian package brings up Ark but without the package loaded. Ark doesn’t appear to handle this file type.
• Hey! Where’s my alt-space quick launch (Katapult) or a replacement.
• Where’s my easy “look for more widgets to install” thingee?
• During install on partitioning disks, the progress bar hangs at 0% for about five or ten minutes.
• My traditional bar across the bottom disappeared and I don’t know where it went. Sometimes KDE seems to fail to bring up any interprocess communication.
• Once I moved the app launcher to the right hand, it made my menus funky, and I don’t know how to make it go back. I eventually blew away my .kde* directories
• Why do I have a .kde3 directory when running kde4?
• Tons and tons of warnings and errors in the dbus backtrack.
• Crashing Konquerer on GMail. Why KDE has its own browser is beyond my keen.
• Grub should initialize with better names. Not just “Generic Linux…” and “Windows Longhorn…”. Also, there are two Windows entries, one of which should be labelled recovery.
• Default width on “Add Widgets” box is way too narrow.
• In “Add Widgets”, “Pager”, “System Tray” and “Task Manager” have too generic icons.
• Can’t be sure or prove it, but “All Widgets” seems to not have all widgets the first time.
• Power management, by default, ran until out of battery and turned off.
• Appears not to save settings until successful shutdown of window manager.
• When I click on the “Leave” icon, choose restart, I get another level of menus to try to restart again.
• Network manager crashed at least once or twice. No clear way to make it start again.
• No ‘small icons’ for a quick launch bar.

After a certain level of  bugginess, it makes no sense to report bugs unless one is also submitting patches.