Posts Tagged KDE
KDE4
Posted by james in Open Source Apps on May 22, 2009
So I have haunted the linux-users mailing list for about um (1999-2009) 10 years.
And the discussion turned to KDE4 and well frankly there wasn’t many people saying it ‘completes me’. Quite the opposite.
So seeing I’m running Ubuntu 9.04 I though I would install it…. and well to coin a phrase: “KDE4 is to KDE what Vista is to Microsoft”.
Immediate problems:
PrtScn and ALT+PrtScn don’t
The KDE menu allows you to go down a limb but there is no obvious way to get back to the trunk…
Usually I Google the problem and get a Ubuntu forums work-a-round or fix almost immediately. Nada.
It’s sad really… KDE traditionally has provided a nice balance to the Gnome over-simplicity, but now, it’s well, hundreds of knobs and levers not connected to the functionality it’s supposed to control.
I don’t normally do ‘opinion’ blogging. I prefer posting the Problem, Cause, Resolution style of blogs because they are the most helpful. But in this case. Come on KDE what happened?
One hopes that, like Microsoft, the KDE4 roadmap committee hears the criticism, and gets out of the sand dunes and back onto the pavement for the next major release.
Filelight and Boabab or How to pie chart your disk usage
Posted by james in Linux Tools on June 24, 2008
filelight: kde application gives a really cool overview of how much and where you are consuming disk space.
boabab: gnome/gtk application
Fedora 7 – So far behind Ubuntu it’s being lapped
I run xfce4 on Fedora 7. Where as xubuntu provides a complete “I can do anything GNOME|KDE can do” environment. Fedora 7′s install appears to be a nod to marketing i.e. “Oh yes we have xfce4 aswell”
Well it bites….
Although I love the redhat config tool structure which provides all those cool system-config-xxx tools. The fact that you can’t just yum install xfburn or a miriad of other tools means it loses out big time to Ubuntu.
There are no prizes for guessing why Ubuntu is the most popular distro at the moment, and it’s not just because it’s N00b frendly. It’s got more apps and an easier package installer.