Konsole -> Manage Profiles -> Edit Profile -> Tabs -> Show New Tab and Close Tab buttons in tab bar.

Not hard to find. But I agree it should be the default. What galled me was that KDE went through a rigamarole to migrate KDE3 settings to a new KDE4 profile and none of the ones I cared about seemed to actually migrate from my old .kde folder, including that one.

On my current system, at least (Debian testing, KDE 4.6.3) disabling nepomuk disables strigi automatically. I find if I'm using a fast system, say an Intel C2D or an Athlon X2, I can leave them both running without incurring too much of a performance penalty, but they overwhelm a single-core system, even the low-powered dual-core AMD E-350 Fusion system in my living room. Besides which, nepomuk literally filled half of my 10GB home partition on this system (it has a 40GB SSD).

The entire nepomuk model doesn't work for me because it relies on indexing files on each computer. But I have several different computers all over my sprawling Victorian house, netbook, laptops, living room/TV, bedroom TV, office, attic, etc., all accessing data that primarily resides on my low-powered attic Debian Lenny home server. So each machine would have to generate a huge database and comments/tags generated on one system would not be accessible on others. The only way the KDE desktop search stuff would work for me is if I could run nepomuk, etc. on my server and access it from my various clients. It might lug the Atom CPU on the server, but it runs 24/7 and doesn't have much to do anyway, except serve files, web pages, proxy duties, etc.

At least when you open terminal emulator at the bottom of dolphin it stays synced with the directory you switch to with the GUI. In konqueror is stays in the folder you were in when you first opened it, you have to manually 'cd' or re-open the terminal emulator to get it to be in your current directory. I'd use dolphin almost exclusively, but there is no way to split the right file viewing area in to more than two vertical panes, konqueror allows you to create as many horizontal and vertical panes as you need. The result is that I have to use dolphin for any work that requires much use of the terminal and konqueror for heavy file management.

And for me only recently did either dolphin or konqueror begin to read meta-data for SOME files (e.g. some mp3 tags, image file dimensions, camera info, etc.)

Konqueror 3.5x is still far and away the best file manager ever, the terminal emulator worked properly, meta-data worked perfectly, you could even edit music tags from the file manager. In the meantime KDE4 has a new tags/comments functionality that I wonder if ANYONE ever uses, but I wouldn't know if it would come in handy because the first thing I do in a new install is disable the Nepomuck Semantic desktop search shit which completely lugs my machines and NEVER finishes indexing my admittedly largish file system, even when the database begins to fill entire partitions.

It was only 720 days old, the good die young.

For us KDE3 fans that means coming to terms with the Plasma Desktop, switching to another DE or window manager or installing KDE 3.5.12 from outside repositories. Much as it will be nice to see some "new" programs like iceweasel (Firefox) 3.5.16 replace 3.0.6 they will have to pry my Lenny CDs from my stiff, dead fingers.

I'm not afraid to look, but add me to the always-disappointed club. Yes, KDE is improving every release, but it is still very inferior to KDE 3.5x, at least for me.

For instance, even with Akonadi-Nepomuk-virtuoso-Strigi rat poison enabled KDE4's handling of basic meta-data in dolphin/konqueror is still crummy, especially if a file is not in your home directory (which is the only indexed folder by default). Remember how you could highlight a file in KDE 3 konqueror and get picture's dimensions or mp3's id3 tags? Instead in KDE 4 you get to add a personal tag to a file in the dolphin preview pane (does anyone use this?) I know some KDE developers are not happy about this state of affairs, but the rate of improvement is glacial.

I just hope that by the time Debian Lenny is no longer supported as "old stable" in a year KDE4 will be close to feature-parity with its predecessor 3 years ago.