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Chxta

Chxta

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As per Martin's treatise, me not a disciple of any. AAMOF, my tastes are rather.. weird. I run Ubuntu, but don't install the complete kubuntu-desktop, but kde-core instead...

Preferred apps:
Amarok (God bless those who came up with that software
)
Nautilus (I prefer it to Konqueror or Dolphin as a file browser)
Open Office (not too much a fan of K-office)
Kate
K3b
Kmail
Konsole...
 

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Martin

Martin

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Martin

Martin

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Chxta said:
As per Martin's treatise, me not a disciple of any. AAMOF, my tastes are rather.. weird. I run Ubuntu, but don't install the complete kubuntu-desktop, but kde-core instead...

Preferred apps:
Amarok (God bless those who came up with that software
)
Nautilus (I prefer it to Konqueror or Dolphin as a file browser)
Open Office (not too much a fan of K-office)
Kate
K3b
Kmail
Konsole...
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I installed kde4-core myself. That gives you the whole desktop, but without every KDE app on the planet (like the games and whatnot). But before that I just ran the Gnome desktop with KDE apps. FYI I absolute detest metacity, the Gnome window manager. Piece of junk.
 
Chxta

Chxta

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Martin said:
I installed kde4-core myself. That gives you the whole desktop, but without every KDE app on the planet (like the games and whatnot). But before that I just ran the Gnome desktop with KDE apps. FYI I absolute detest metacity, the Gnome window manager. Piece of junk.
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Yeah, I prefer KWIN. Ever since Jacques talked me into trying KDE, I've always wondered what the guys at Gnome must have been smoking...
 
Martin

Martin

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Chxta said:
Yeah, I prefer KWIN. Ever since Jacques talked me into trying KDE, I've always wondered what the guys at Gnome must have been smoking...
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I have to admit Gnome puzzles me. A few years ago they had a very clear strategy and a lot was happening. Now the releases are incredibly incremental with very little new stuff in each one, and their numbering scheme has reached 2.22 or something like that. You gotta wonder what exactly their big picture is. They're adding one or two applications to it now and then, but the rest isn't changing. I mean metacity has been just as sucky from the beginning and nothing is being done about it. Have they lost the will to work on Gnome?

I mean there was a time when Gnome vs KDE was a real contest, but for a long time now KDE is insurmountably superior.

Also, some of the applications seem almost dead. Dia, the diagram editor which I use all the time, hasn't had updates since like 2004. I'd fix a couple of bugs in it that are annoying me, but I don't have the know how. And apparently noone's interested anyway.

Also GTK, the toolkit Gnome is based on, is sucky and hasn't been improved for a long time. Meanwhile QT is zooming with the strong backing of Trolltech.
 
V

V

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How do you all feel about KDE being ported to Windows and Mac? I think it's a good thing, choice is what linux is all about and going cross-platform is in the spirit of linux.
 
Sheik Yerbouti

Sheik Yerbouti

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well, msot of the takers would be current linux users! but it'll be a good chance to introduce others to Linux without actually installing it! sure, we were doing it with Live CD's till now, this is one step ahead i think!
 
Martin

Martin

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vlatko said:
How do you all feel about KDE being ported to Windows and Mac? I think it's a good thing, choice is what linux is all about and going cross-platform is in the spirit of linux.
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Well, Firefox was ported a long time ago and I think that has been a positive thing, don't you? The social impact of Firefox has been immense.

And if I were stuck on Windows right now (god forbid) I'd want to have my regular applications available, so I support this development.
 
V

V

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I agree though some people, quite a few I believe, have that "evil" stand and they don't wanna share their stuff with the big bad MS. Why should they have Amarok, Kopete, etc.? I don't understand that mentality, it completely opposes linux idealogy. Fanboys are so lame.

Personally I think it's great, make it available everywhere and let the people choose.
 
Sheik Yerbouti

Sheik Yerbouti

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vlatko said:
I agree though some people, quite a few I believe, have that "evil" stand and they don't wanna share their stuff with the big bad MS. Why should they have Amarok, Kopete, etc.? I don't understand that mentality, it complete opposes linux idealogy. Fanboys are so lame.

Personally I think it's great, make it available everywhere and let the people choose.
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well, i feel none of the applications shud be released for windows exclusively! they shud only work with the ported KDE.... hope that makes sense!
 
Martin

Martin

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vlatko said:
I agree though some people, quite a few I believe, have that "evil" stand and they don't wanna share their stuff with the big bad MS. Why should they have Amarok, Kopete, etc.? I don't understand that mentality, it completely opposes linux idealogy. Fanboys are so lame.

Personally I think it's great, make it available everywhere and let the people choose.
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People regularly argue that apps shouldn't be ported to Windows, because then people have no incentive to migrate to Linux. I mean if they have all the same applications why would they?

I think this is a moot point, because it's not like we're having a massive flux to Linux right now. So people who worry about the stagnation of migration should actually be thinking about how to increase it.

Furthermore, Firefox has been a huge eye opener to free software just in itself, and if we get all KDE apps on windows working really well, we actually give people the chance to use free software more than half the time. And that's wonderful, but I think it's also gonna have a really big effect in terms of PR, a lot more people will hear about Linux this way.
 
V

V

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Exactly, this is simply a case of spreading the word. Why should one have to boot an entire different OS to try out a specific program? It's actually a little oximoronic since it's open, free-for-all software.

Get it all out there, when someone starts using Amarok for music, mplayer for video, K3B for burning along with the ever present FF for browsing, Thunderbird for e-mail...one will get the idea; might as well use the natural OS for all that software.

It's a win-win situation for the Open Source world and I applaud the KDE team for it.
 
Martin

Martin

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vlatko said:
Get it all out there, when someone starts using Amarok for music, mplayer for video, K3B for burning along with the ever present FF for browsing, Thunderbird for e-mail...one will get the idea; might as well use the natural OS for all that software.

It's a win-win situation for the Open Source world and I applaud the KDE team for it.
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Right, because then the "omg all the applications are different mommyyyyyy" argument falls away. And when people ask "will my applications run on linux?" we can say "why, of course" :wink:
 
JCK

JCK

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I really hope that KDE gets ported to Windows, it is one of the best things that might happen to those who are stuck with MS systems at their jobs.
 
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