KDE 3.5.2: Something's missing.

This is not a rant but I'm getting more and more frustrated by every update of KDE. This is still not KDE 4! Whyyyy?

OK, let's them work. They said 3.5.2 was the last release until KDE 4. So, sit and wait.

Any way, there are some real reasons why I'm unsatisfied. There are some annoying bugs that reached the users --and that includes me. The first one is that brand new inability of Konqueror to copy a file into the same folder. Formerly, Konqueror proposed to rename the file. Now, it just refuses to copy because the name already exists. Stoopid! The one who removed this possibility should dragged on his knees in front of the angry crowd to beg for mercy! ;-) Sorry, dude, but what were you thinking about? This is really annoying.

Kate keeps on crashing when you save a file and to re-create a file from the backup, we now have to do real contortions. Well, it looks like now Kate crashes only after having saved the whole file so the missing feature poses no problem in this situation... but in all other situations, ouch! To create a backup file next to the original is now a P.I.T.A! That's a real pity.

I also have a strange problem. The Control Center has its name in English in the K Menu instead of French according to my language settings. I doesn't bother me much since I seldom use the K Menu and the Control Center but it gives a bad feeling about KDE 3.5.2. If something so obvious has escaped to the developers, what maybe less subtle bugs are also hiding behind my nice Serenity style?

And the thing that definitively gets on my nerves: Please, stop touching the icons in Konqueror's toolbars at each update! I don't care what the developers or whoever else want to see in the toolbars. I have user settings and that's what I want to have. So, please, don't reorder the icons, don't remove items... and first of all, don't add new icons! I don't even know what was added once again and again... I just saw something new and I ran my script cleantaskbar. Good bye! But this didn't prevent me from having to re-build a decent toolbar for all the users of my system. (Luckily, only 2.)

Apart from that the bug in KHTML that makes Blogger's entry form strange isn't gone. And this isn't due to my style. This rather looks like a Javascript bug. Sometimes I wonder if somebody ever tests KDE before a release. (Disappointment leads to frustration. Frustration leads to bitterness.) Maybe the build process is so automated and complex that nobody releases KDE, it just escapes by itself from time to time. And when somebody notices, s/he hurries to KDE-Look to announce the escape. ;-)

I'm sorry if I have nothing more positive to say but the problem is that there's nothing new in KDE. I don't want much... Just crumbreads in Konqueror's URL bar, for example. That's the kind of tiny things that proves to the users that KDE is evolving. The bugfixes aren't enough, especially when the obvious ones I know aren't fixed and new ones appear. It has been so for a few releases already. There's always that tiny thing that is missing. The tiny thing that would make us say the last release is different from the previous one.