I have been trying each KDE4 release, and was always pissed that I couldn’t use my desktop. I also did’nt want to stare at a folderview widget either. I just tried 11.1 beta3, and I am very impressed. The Opensuse hack in desktop settings to let me use folderview as the desktop is awesome. That was just the thing to make me feel good about using KDE4. Now I don’t feel like I’m on Mars when I’m using it. My Atheros ar5007 worked out of the box for the first time also. Thank you to Opensuse devs for the job you do. 11.1 and KDE4 is going to rock!
Kde4 is growing on me as well.
Personally, I love folder view. It makes it easy to group things together for easy access without clicking down through directories all the time looking for what I need.
It’s the best thing since sliced bread.