Heh @Prasad . Guilty as charged. I like KDE and like Sebin I use KDE 4.3.1 on an Arch Linux system. I find it very tightly integrated ( eg: all my contacts are shared across KMail as well as kopete and with any other program that requires it ). Also, KRunner ( the ALT+F2 ) dialog is awesome: i could just type "mail to ilug-tvm " and it will launch KMail Compose window with the email address in the To: field. If I type "motherjane" it will list all songs that are on my harddrive, performed by the band Motherjane ( this is due to the Strigi file indexer ) . I can type in "=300*15/1000" and it will display the results as i type . If i type "Downloads" it will display options to open the folder as well as the files that are in it. Kopete and quassel takes care of my IM needs. File browsing is easier than ever with Dolphin, its integrated terminal, split views, tabbed views and its "move/copy/cancel" drag and drop menu. Plasmoids make life easier , especially the new folder view plasmoid, where you can browse files easily just by hovering your mouse on the folders. Aquiring new eye candy for your desktop is very very easy now because it has been very well integrated with kde-look.org .There are many, many more little things that make life easier on KDE4 :)
I dont like GNOME - I fnd it lacking . There are excellent GTK applications ( Tomboy ) , but GNOME desktop as a whole doesnt integrate very well. You have to tweak it. btw , for those KDE users who want Desktop effects, you dont have to run compiz for that, you could go ahead and enable desktop effects from "System Settings > Desktop " . You will get cube and most of the compiz effects that are useful in day to day tasks. It was really bad in 4.1, but is vey solid now. If you use QTCurve theme for both GNOME and KDE , your GNOME apps as well as KDE apps will look similar. Earlier there were issues with applications that reside on system tray etc. But with adoption of freedesktop.org's standards by both desktops , much of these issues have been solved. I will be happy to help anyone with KDE4 issues/doubts. -- Ashik S --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
