Re: KDE4.X - What a pain

> I seem to be stuck with the new style menu display, which I could revert
> to something usable in KDE3.
You can do this also in KDE 4.  Open the Add Widgets dialog
and close the Application Launcher Widget.  Then Add the Alternative
Application Launcher which is the classic start bar menu....It's what I use.
 
> The settings menus seemed to be dumbed down to th point where there
> doesn't seem to be much point in opening them. (Did I mention mac
> wannabe...?)
Yes.  There are a lot of 'usability' improvements that are essentially
catering to the lowest common denominator.  Hopefully there will be a
power user option in future releases.
 
> Also, all the cute visual and sound effects seem to drag response to a
> crawl. (64bit AMD, 2GB RAM 256MB NVidia.)
Probably some optimizations yet to be done as the backend wiring is not
yet complete.
 
> This so bad it's starting to make Gnome look good.
I wouldn't go that far. LOL but I get your message. 

I'd stick with KDE3 for the short term if I were you. It is simply
more mature and feature complete.  When most of the apps are ported