Ubuntu :: Unable To Use The KDE [4.5 RC] On Lucid

I am rather irritated right now. I managed to install kde 4.5rc alongside gnome 2.30. And the 1st impression is barely ok. It seems stable and fast, but because wi-fi doesn't work for me, it's really limited in where it can go. Considering I'm typing this logged in thru gnome on the exact same system, connected to the wi-fi network kde refused to connect to, it's rather baffling. Update: Used networkmanager-gnome to get me connectd in before I login since network doesn't use security (even gnome doesn't play well with that.

KDE issues (some from 4.4.2 and still in 4.4.92). Plasma:

1.Tooltips aren't persistent, they shy away after a few seconds. Also they should update with data they're representing (yes system monitor, I'm looking at you);

2.Allow setting of colours for graphs e.g. ram monitor, cpu monitor. Was there but now gone;

3.A more convenient way to exit the plasma dashboard (right click on background perhaps?);

4.Individual wallpapers per desktop; (again, there before in 3.5)

5.Panel auto-hide show delay still not adjustable; choice for fade-in animation;

Kwin:

1.The present windows effect wastes a lot of space under 'natural' without 'presenting' the windows optimally; other setting (fixed & flexible grid) make programs like audacious look utterly horrible; the placement algorithm needs to be sorted;

2.Oxygen menus have too much border, give impression of bloat;

3.Kwin compositing freezes everytime I change decoration, style, font, etc. Have to use key shortcut to disable then re-enable. This is somehow connected to my system using more swap as time goes on, while mem usage remains ~40% (of 2gig)

Dolphin:

1.Ability to show basic media file metadata without need for nepomuk (as was possible in konqueror in 3.5.x), e.g resolution of jpeg/png/bmp images, id3 info from mp3/ogg/wma files; pdf [this marked as done in the feature plan, yet to see it)

2.More columns for sorting in details view (windows explorer excels in this). Above point will be needed before this is possible;

Amarok (2.3.1):

1.Still no proper use of album artist tag (for compilation albums and such) and/or proper detection of various artists listed in the 'artist' tag;

2.All embedded album art is useless;

3.Album art isn't shown prominently in the collection browser (22px crap doesn't count, the art itself is >300px);

4.Can't queue files from collection. Can queue from playlist, albums applet but not collection. Why?;

It is a stable pre-release software but stable can only get us so far. The basic features users have clamored for aren't being provided, resulting in my playing music with banshee and viewing my pics with geeqie.