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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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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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Things I dislike: |
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1. I disable nepomuk and its offspring. |
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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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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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