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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You've been using the command-line for choosing cursor themes? Mandrake users have been able to install the cursor_themes package and run choose_cursor from the menus since Mandrake 9.1. Incidentally, it uses kdialog (which has been around much longer than since 3.1, it was there in 3.0 I am quite sure ...), which also means that it's difficult to do previews, so I am glad KDE-3.2 has support for cursor themes.
Also, the services tab has been there for ever ...
I wonder if you've ever tried gvim, and in KDE-3.2 kvim should also be available. I just wonder about someone who takes kate over vi because of searching capabilities ... have you used regex-based searches in vi?
Otherwise, quite a nice review, but a number of issues you mention weren't present in the beta packages I had on Mandrake cooker last month (insufficient bandwidth at present to keep up).