my kde4 adventure

   ok, let's get this show on the road. first i want to psych myself up. i'll do this by explaining what i know about and how i feel about kde4 up to this point. throughout this adventure i want to be able to express my thoughts and feelings and results without any derogatory insinuations or insults. i hope i can do this. in fact i'd like to say a thank you to all the GNU/Linux developers that work hard to provide us all with a great operating system. Thank You. if i do say something offensive then please try to grin and bear it and imagine that i'm just an old-skool hippie trying hard to adjust to new ways.
   as we all know kde took a left turn somewhere into some cosmic, intergalactic, subspace, timewarp, plasmoid, wormhole and caused a lot of folks to get lost and confused. many even got angry, very angry. i'm one of those that got mad also but i mostly bit my tongue and honestly tried to explore and use kde4. i started with one of the first nightly releases that came out with the opensuse distro. it wasn't very usable but it provided a nice introduction to where kde4 was going. each time a new release came out i tried it but usually got frustrated in a short period of time (about an hour). when the major distros started implementing it as the default desktop i knew i was going to have problems adjusting. that's when i got mad. so i stayed with mandriva 2008.1 kde 3.5.10.
   i just recently upgraded to mandriva 2010 with the gnome desktop but i'm not happy with it. i know there are other desktops i could try such as xfce or lxde but right now i'm just going to jump into the kde4 wormhole. that's how i got started with linux in the first place. i had linux installed but i kept booting into windows simply because it was familiar. finally i committed myself to stay in linux and learn how to do things or not do them till i learned how. it wasn't so hard and i've never looked back.
   so that's what i'm going to do with kde4. i'm going to create a virtual machine and stay committed to it. i know, a virtual machine doesn't sound like total commitment as the host will still be readily available but i don't feel like creating a dual boot scenario. i'll just have to discipline myself.
   one thing i want to do is document every little, teeny, tiny detail or issue i have with kde4. maybe i'll learn something along the way. one thing i don't want to do is sound like i'm an authority on using kde but rather how i try to deal with things. ok, let's go team, sisboomba. are we psyched yet?
   here's a shot of virtualbox that i'll be using for this. right off the bat i run into one of those little issues. i had to figure out how to close the about window, there's no buttons on the title bar. clicking anywhere inside the window will close it. seems kind of inconsistent to me.