Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Jun 2006 14:26 UTC
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2005-11-11
Overall, I agree with your main points about KDE (always agreed with the Gnome ones). I generally bounce between KDE and Gnome, depending upon my mood of the week and have been for about the past 8 months. I know it sounds like I wouldn't get much done, but I've configured both to exactly I want each side. Considering I regularly flirt between Windows and Linux cmdline at work, OSX, Windows, and Linux at home, I'm at home with all.
1.) I think I find what you're referring to here. KDE has very nice integration among its core apps, whether its Kopete to Konqurer with files, or Kmail with contacts, the core apps are integrated very nicely.
However, even in the core apps, dialogues are not always the same, menus vary, and it gets far, far worse when you delve out into other apps. KDE might have a general guideline for apps, but it doesn't seem as indepth, or as utilized as Gnomes. Now, thats from my experience, I could be completely wrong.
2.) I've noticed this mainly to be a problem with Kubuntu. It seems like they customized the dialogue too much to "fit" with the "root"-less accounts, but forgot to fill it out. Considering Kubuntu is still fairly new, and is an adaptation of Ubuntu's human interface, I think it should probably get a slide here for this release.
3.) Don't use it, so cant really mention here. I've only ever tried to use Ubuntu on my iBook and that was a disastor with the PPC.
4.) Same. I use apt-get from the commandline, or else synaptic. I know adept had alot of problems in breezy, hence why I avoid it.
5.) This is really my major beef with KDE. There's a million and one customizations possible, but there's no real central "location" for them. Yes, Gnome's dialogues might be simple but atleast I can go into gconf and edit them there, with just about every editable option in that location.
KDE though, requires going through a million and one .files or else trying to find it...everywhere. Some settings also dont seem to apply globally (like locktasbar) as you assume they would. I think its more just a lack of polish (again, maybe HIG isnt quite as adhered to?)
7.) Naming scheme. Yes, KDE's is terrible. But, then so is most opensource apps. Hopefully this'll be fixed soon in KDE4/Gnome3