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On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, behrouz khosravi |
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> <bz.khosravi@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not |
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>> the other options ? |
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> So, this is more why I'm using KDE and not so much why I'm not using |
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> something else. |
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> Things I like about KDE: |
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> 1. Handles USB drive insertions/etc. |
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> 2. ioslaves like fish, smb, and so on. |
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> 3. Love the window manager |
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> 4. Love the configurability, especially with the unified |
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> notification/shortcut configuration design |
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> 5. krunner (more or less - it still feels quirky but I like it) |
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> 6. That dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd. |
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> That is just nifty. |
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#6 - it does? How do I activate that? Might be useful, I didn't even |
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know there was such a fature |
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> Things I don't care about: |
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> 1. All the bundled apps. I don't use konqueror, koffice, and kdepim |
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> for the most part. I might use kdepim if I could get it to work with |
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> Google calendar/contacts without needing two-factor on every login. |
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You can use sets to just get what you really use. |
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The way I do it is I installed just the few -meta packages I want. True, |
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I get more cruft than using sets, but with less work. I consider that an |
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acceptable trade-off for me. |
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> Things I dislike: |
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> 1. I disable nepomuk and its offspring. |
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nepomuk (and akanodi) and a bit of a personal embarrassment for me. In |
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the beginning I advocated they were a good idea; and I still believe the |
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idea is good for the average desktop in this brave new world. But the |
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implementation - that often outweighs the idea. Nepomuk not so much |
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(that one is pretty efficient) but definitely akonadi (that one sucks eggs) |
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> Things I think might be improveable: |
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> 1. The way it handles window grouping. I dislike a bazillion tabs, |
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> but I don't like the way it does grouping all that much either. Maybe |
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> I need to better grok activities/etc. |
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Heh heh:-) I have that problem too. I forced myself to close tabs |
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ruthlessly and rely on history. I now try and keep open only tabs I am |
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using, not also tabs I might use again. |
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Activities looks like a good idea, but I can't get them to work and feel |
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right. Perhaps I should define what my activities actually mean to me |
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better, this is far from simple. |
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> I have run xfce at times. In particular I used to run it when |
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> accessing my desktop via NX since it was lightweight. I also used it |
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> exclusively during the early days of kde4, in part because the system |
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> I was running it on was underpowered. |
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> I'm open to other options. I am not at all wedded to the big kde |
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> apps, so if there is something else that offers more of the utility |
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> side I'm interested. However, everything about kde just seems so |
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> flexible, it is probably hard to beat for utility. |
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For pure engineering excellence it's hard to beat e19 and efl. However, |
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raster and his team still have no qualms with ripping chunks of good out |
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and replacing them on a whim, so perhaps not the most stable environment |
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out there :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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