
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...
I don't quite understand everyone's problem with noatun... I use it to listen to my mp3s all the time without a problem, indeed i wouldn't want to use anything else. I agree that the default playlists suck, but if you install the Hayes plugin it can't be beat. Easy to use and completely integrated with kde.
And of course kaboodle is what I use for viewing videos, because most of the time I don't want those loaded into my playlist, so a one off player is handy in that case.