[CS-FSLUG] KDE 4 and SuSE

[David McGlone]

On Friday 04 April 2008 7:21:17 am Nathan T. wrote:
> Timothy Butler wrote:
> > On Apr 3, 2008, at 3:44 PM, David McGlone wrote:
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> Of course you know I just can't let that slip by. KDE has it's merits
> over Gnome, and I personally think that it's more consistent (for
> example with the size & resizing of desktop icons). The biggest problem
> I've had with KDE, and the reason I'm using Ubuntu now, is that the
> extensions and smaller applications would be lacking features, and often
> would outright just crash and make the whole desktop experience seem
> unprofessional. Having a lot of the applications I got hooked on in
> Windows only be available in Linux as GTK applications with that
> backward button ordering didn't help me stay with KDE either.

Hmmm, tell me more about this "backward" button? Sounds very interesting.

>
> Gnome finally made me feel comfortable enough with the version that came
> with Ubuntu 7.10 to get me to switch away from KDE. The biggest appeal
> to Gnome is that the programs and features I want are there without the
> distributor bundling five different programs that are supposed to do the
> same thing but each lack a specific feature.

I've seen this, but never paid much attention. I guess because it didn't 
effect me much.

>
> I have expressed some frustration over the level of simplification that
> Gnome has undergone before; frankly hiding usefull features for the sake
> of making it safe for Joe Can't-find-the-any-key was outright stupid. On
> the other hand, over-complication isn't the answer, and until KDE gets
> some much-needed designs changes, I'll be sticking to Gnome.

Have you seen KDE 4? Ah it's nice. It might not fit your bill, but it did 
mine. My impression of KDE 4 is that it's moving more and more towards 
standardization. Things are starting to get more organized and simple things 
that have been overlooked in recent versions are getting either overhauled or 
fixed. I might not have my thumb on this 100% but that is the impression I 
have got from KDE 4 so far.
>
> A lot of the efforts I've seen to improve on KDE have come from the
> distributors, and the changes have only been a half-hearted attempts at
> re-structuring the control panel and dropping in GTK applications to
> replace KDE applications that lacked some kind of file format support or
> feature.

With Kubuntu, I've never had a problem with file formats. Hmmm. Maybe i'm not 
looking hard enough. Can you give me an example?
-- 
David M.