Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Jun 2006 14:26 UTC
KDE This is the 3rd installment in my series on deficiencies in common desktop environments. After GNOME and the Mac/MacOS, it is now KDE's turn. As with the other installments, this is a rant. Beware.
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mhm
by Terracotta on Sun 18th Jun 2006 15:29 UTC
Terracotta
Member since:
2005-08-15

1) Coherence is indeed a problem in KDE, although they are working on it for KDE4.

2) The second one isn't completely fair since it's Kubuntu you're working on and hence the dialog is completely correct. There IS NO ROOT password, all you have is your own password if you're an administrator, a non sudo-user won't be able to pass past this dialog box.

3) I don't know about klaptop, since I never used it, but I don't use KDE on my laptop, because I can't find suspend to ram and hybernate in Kubuntu, Xubuntu has it (probably ripped it from the Ubuntu stuff).

4) Adept is to me a way better package manager than Synaptic, the tags stuff, ok, I don't know what it is, but for the rest it's way more usefull, I prefer the adept tools above the synaptic-add/remove stuff... but that's personal probably.

5) well, I dislike icons on my desktop (it must be the single stupiest idea ever to place stuff there, superkaramba stuff, ok, but files??? :s. (but again, it's my idea of how it should be, so icons are disabled on the desktop on my pc).

6)Lock toolbar is available in Kubuntu, richt click on kicker and there's an option: lock the toolbar, difficult to find he :s. But well could be because I used KDE 3.5.3 from the kubuntu.org repos, perhaps it's not there in KDE 3.5.2 that ships nativ with dapper drake.

7)Every project decides for itself its naming scheme, but if you look at Amarok that used to be amaroK, and plasma, phonon... (which are the real future names btw), they're dealing with it.

RE: mhm
by Thom_Holwerda on Sun 18th Jun 2006 15:33 in reply to "mhm"
Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

6)Lock toolbar is available in Kubuntu, richt click on kicker and there's an option: lock the toolbar, difficult to find he :s.

That option is placed in Kicker because it, well, only applies to Kicker.

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RE: mhm
by Ascay on Sun 18th Jun 2006 15:39 in reply to "mhm"
Ascay Member since:
2005-07-11

> 4) Adept is to me a way better package manager than
> Synaptic, the tags stuff, ok, I don't know what it is,
> but for the rest it's way more usefull, I prefer the
> adept tools above the synaptic-add/remove stuff... but
> that's personal probably.

I guess he just meant the extremely cluttered interface that doesn't even remember that I hid the options I never use (e.g. the tags). I prefer Synaptic on KDE too.

> 6)Lock toolbar is available in Kubuntu, richt click
> on kicker and there's an option: lock the toolbar,

But that locks everything. You can't even add a new icon to the toolbar. :/

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