I have been using KDE 4.0 since the day ONE, and of course compared to my KDE 3.5.8 desktop (both on openSUSE 10.3) there are tonnes of features that are currently missing (or in the process of re-invention), especially when it comes to configuring everything that is about the KDE 4 desktop next to that I really dislike the current way of file management … yes, the current Dolphin and the features it lacks compared to Konq way of file management (I’ll blab about this later). In the meantime, I really would have loved the following applications to be fully ported, functioning and support all that KDE 4 has to offer:

1. KDE PIM - or in other words, Kontact, especially KMail.

2. Kaffeine - this is my primary video player (exception being to Firefox, where Mplayer + Mplayer-plugin is the best choice).

3. SMPlayer - Mplayer frontend … when Kaffeine cannot handle some codecs, this player is there to crack it.

4. K3b - the king of burning CD/DVD on KDE.

5. Kopete - there is a problem with webcams, not being initialised properly perhaps (works with 0.12).

6. Dolphin - I need little more power-features from this very-very light file management application.

7. Amarok - not even reached Alpha 0. Also, I’d like to see MySQL support out of box.

8. Plasmoids/Widgets - more of these, please. Also, better integration of Superkaramba widgets.

9. Basket Note - I love this power-packed notes taker.

10. Syncronisation - KitchenSync I guess

Other than these, I’d like the OOo team also to come up with some nice theme (engine) that will nicely integrate with KDE 4.

I understand that most of these will be there by KDE 4.1 release, but it would have been nice to have all this being there with the 4.0 release, as most of these are core applications that end users require for daily use. Yes, I understand that older KDE 3 apps are there, but I want the consistency with KDE 4.

Again, these are my personal preferences and point of view. So which applications you think that should have been there or perhaps you are eagerly looking forward for?

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