KDE Apllications

[ponder]

I've been using Gnome for a while now so I stick to GTK based stuff (Same with openbox) but the applications just seem so crap compared to the KDE ones.

K3b, digiKam, krita, kdenlive, amarok etc are all great apps.

Your thoughts?

 

[Avenue]

but kde isnt such a great desktop, so you going to have to wait for ununtu 11.10 when they integrate both QT and GTK into unity

 

[stricken]

but kde isnt such a great desktop, so you going to have to wait for ununtu 11.10 when they integrate both QT and GTK into unity

thats gonna be sweet. lets hope Compiz still works.

 

[ponder]

but kde isnt such a great desktop, so you going to have to wait for ununtu 11.10 when they integrate both QT and GTK into unity

Yeah. Someone needs to create a decent KDE theme for starters, there's to much wasted real estate & to much clutter going on there. This coming from a old die hard kde user

 

[koffiejunkie]

I avoid gtk applications as far as I can. I think Gnome is a pretty poor immitation of something akin to the OS X interface. It has some really strange quirks, even in the (much nicer) Ubuntu implementation. I find Gnome gets in my way more often than it's helping me to work faster.

Unfortunately two of the apps I use heavily - Firefox and Pidgin - are still based on GTK. It would be a great day when I can compile both with QT or something else.

Not that KDE is perfect but its UK design to me makes a lot more sense (even if it draws heavily on the Windows way) and it stays out of my way. My biggest complaint is that, if I start up a single Gnome application under KDE, it fires up all the gnome services in the background, which causes stupid situations like being unable to eject a USB flash drive because some gnome-vfs or something is hogging it. Under Ubuntu 10.10, opening Evolution crashes the KDE panel - tested on a few machines.

 

[Kasyx]

I'll stick to RatPoison.

You do realize you can use a KDE app under GNOME, right? It's just a case of installing the Qt libraries, and, I assume you're using Ubuntu (just like everyone else in the Linux section of MyBB), apt-get will pull in all dependencies if you try to install one. So just install Amarok, and apt will grab all the Qt libraries you need.

 

[ponder]

You do realize you can use a KDE app under GNOME, right? It's just a case of installing the Qt libraries, and, I assume you're using Ubuntu (just like everyone else in the Linux section of MyBB), apt-get will pull in all dependencies if you try to install one. So just install Amarok, and apt will grab all the Qt libraries you need.

Never, you don't say hey

Thanks but I'm well aware of that. Actually a Arch user although I do currently have ubuntu installed on the desktop, was a urgent thing, not that I like it. Laptop is still running Arch.

 

[Kasyx]

Never, you don't say hey

Thanks but I'm well aware of that. Actually a Arch user although I do currently have ubuntu installed on the desktop, was a urgent thing, not that I like it. Laptop is still running Arch.

An excellent choice

I think the trick is to reach a point where one realizes that GNOME/KDE/GTK/Qt/etc don't actually matter. Your Linux system is *yours*, and you can install upon it whatever you like; there are no restrictions. Maybe you like the KDE suite, with GNOME/Metacity as your WM. Or maybe you like the GNOME suite under Fluxbox. It really doesn't matter. Linux is so customizable you can really just chop and change your installation as you see fit. I'm not trying to lay blame here, but I think that Ubuntu hasn't really helped introduce new Linux users to this concept, as they seem to draw a stark line between Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, etc. and don't make it readily apparent that one can really use whatever one wants.

 

[koffiejunkie]

I assume you're using Ubuntu (just like everyone else in the Linux section of MyBB)

I use Real™ Debian™

 

[ponder]

I use Real™ Debian™

Which one, that wild child called Sid?

 

[koffiejunkie]

Mostly Squeeze. I usually give testing about six months after the last one went stable, before upgrading to it. I have sid on one box, used mostly for testing stuff. Most of my servers are Lenny or Squeeze, one is still on Etch (busy working on its replacement right now). I have one box in the wild running Woody. Or was it Potato? I can't remember. It's just routing traffic between two other servers - doesn't have access and is not reachable to either the internet or the client's internal network. Hmm, I wonder what the uptime on it is?

 

[Nuro]

Took the plunge and and installed KDE 4.6 (as a long time gnome user). The last version of KDE that I used fulltime was 3.5.
At this point I'm really impressed.