Linked by Rahul Gaitonde on Thu 15th Jan 2004 06:40 UTC
Around 3 weeks ago, I downloaded the 2nd beta of KDE 3.2 from their FTP site. I've been using this release every day since then. The purpose of my writing this piece is not to highlight KDE 3.2's new features and applications - read the Changelog at KDE's site for that - but to give you a complete picture of how it measures up to its previous versions in terms of everyday use. Does it make me more productive? Is the command line more efficient yet? Or, even better, does it make me use the command line more effectively? Read on...
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I hope KDE 3.2 WILL make a difference from what we have already seen in the Linux DE world. I am a Gnome 2.4 user (switched from KDE 3.1.4), but I just want to say that it is good to have both around. If KDE 3.2 will rock my Linux experience, I will switch to it. If Gnome 2.5 (or whatever is the next version) will prove to be more unified and consistent and perform better, I will switch again. Anyway - it's good to have CHOICE - I'm trying to be as flexible as possible.
BTW - he is right about the multimedia apps used as defaults. Xmms with all necessary plugins and MPlayer should be enough. For all content, DVD, MP3, OGG, Real, WMA/WMV, Quicktime, etc.
I don't know who is taking care of the mplugin project - but if they could improve it in such a way that we could have it show "play-stop-rw-fw" controls in webcontent, that would definitelly take away all advantage windows-browsers have in terms of content capability.
:::PROUD TO LIVE IN THE BIRTHLAND OF LINUX:::