• Upgraded KDE 3 to KDE 4 + doing some configuration tweaking resulted in crash of KDE on every startup. Well, I didn't have time to debug it, so just removed ~/.kde directory and did new config from scratch. Painful, lost all settings from kde apps too (have a backup), but worked.
  
  Ah, it happened again. I wasn't going to scratch the config again, so tried to find out. Crash seems to be related with adding some scripts (anything?) to ~/.kde/Autostart. If I find out something more, I'll be submitting a bug report probably.


• Panel (or how they call the main menu bar) on the left (vertically) setting is unusable Applications (widgets) embed in it, just does not support (does not fit) that mode. No solution as of now.
  


• No 'Manual' mode for window placement Any automatic (even Smart) option on a large (virtual/multi-monitor) display just does not work for me. I want manual control, period. For KDE 3 I wrote a small, and quite imperfect patch to add that mode to kwin. Will have to do the same for KDE 4.
  Anyway, ok, that's just a feature request, with apparently minimal interest among users.
  


• gnome-terminal just got mad, shows a lot of trash instead of ASCII text on a +- half of the screen. Didn't debug. Highlighting the text, or moving the window out of the screen and back helps until contents changes.
  
  Tried switching to konsole, but...
  


• konsole knows better(!) what shortcuts I want to use, so redefines Ctrl+Insert to 'Paste' the clipboard (aka Ctrl+V), instead paste the current selection (X default), and disallow to change it.
  


• konsole starts in geometry of last closed konsole (sic!), and no way to change, set up on command line or in any other way (tried dcop/dbus too!)
  


• konsole tabs cannot be set up upon command line startup, i.e. what tabs are opened, how to name them, and what command to run
  


• Where do I configure mouse wheel to change desktops?
  
  Answer: Option is gone in KDE4 (using compositing, but apparently, in my case, without compositing too), but planned.


• New kickoff menu very hard to navigate when you want to review the menus. Fortunately old one is available.
  


• How do I setup middle click - window list?
  


• And forced predefined shortcuts again!. I'm used to have Alt+Up combination bound to Window Rise action. Who made the developers into the position to decide it will be irrevocably bound to some 'Up' action?! If you wish, you can warn, that redefining the standard action is a bad idea and user does it on his responsibility. But force?! You are apparently going Windows!
  
  Window says: The 'Alt+Up' key combination has already been allocated to the standard action "Up" that many application use. You cannot use it for global shortcuts for this reason.

• Fixed both forced shortcuts problem with a kdelibs-remove-shortcuts.patch. For now on, it disables only shortcuts: Alt+Up & Shift+Insert, so both can redefined. This unfortunately does not fix Ctrl+Insert being bound to 'Paste' (although it can be now redefined to something else).
• It means rebuilding whole KDE rpms every KDE update. Eh...

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