On 3/10/06, Tarus Balog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) What should I look at in terms of a nice, clean, powerful desktop? > I like KDE. Is there a distro out there that is stable enough to use > in a mission critical application (i.e. my desktop) that is current > enough to contain lots of cool, bright, shiny things? I think Debian > is out since I don't want to run sid. CentOS? Ubuntu? I doubt anyone > has duplicated the usefulness of Exposé, but one can hope.
You mean like Kompose? http://kompose.berlios.de/ :-) It seems to be installed on my Kubuntu Breezy box (that I upgraded to KE 3.5). I'll have to try it when I get home. > 2) Recommended apps? I believe I will have to have CodeWeavers just > because my job requires access to Office and I'd like access to > iTunes, but others: iTunes is supported in Codeweaver's wine and sadly, none of the media programs in linux yet reach it's level of functionality. > Office: OpenOffice, KOffice? Or just MS office under Codeweavers. > Widgets: ? Superkaramba? I think it's fairly similar. > Calendar: ? You could try Mozilla Sunbird, but I'm not sure if it's ready for prime time yet. I know it's not nearly as good as OS X's iCal. :-( Alternatively, there's always KOrganizer, but I haven't been able to figure out how to easily subscribe it to remote calendars. > Address Book: ? KAddressBook has good integration with KDE apps. > Adium: ? Gaim is probably your best bet here. Kopete works too, but it's not nearly as featureful as Gaim is. > iPhoto: Gallery? I've heard good things about digiKam. > iMovie: ? > iDVD: ? Cinelerra is probably your best bet here. Other notes: If you're mainly using KDE but have a few GTK apps you want to use, you can install the GTK-QT theme which will make GTK use Qt widgets for it's theme. The advantage here is that all your apps will look the same whether they're KDE or GTK. Also, take a look at http://linuxgangster.org/modules.php?name=Content&file=viewarticle&id=15 for information on how to make KDE look just like OS X. :-) Good luck. Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
