"KDE 4 is coming. It's starting to look and behave in a mature enough manner to use it on a normal desktop. This article is a little introduction as to what you should expect from the brand new KDE that is due out later this year." Lots of screenshots too.
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Member since:2006-02-15
Sure, I agree that the open/save file dialog should be a bit more functional. Atleast renaming files and creating a new folder would be handy to a lot of people. But looking at the past arguments it seems likely the devs will just stubbornly ignore that. And anyway, thatīs not really that important to me. I have the directory structure already in place and I don't reuse old filenames so..Only on a rare occasion I wanna save the file(s) to a non-existing folder and it's not that big a deal then to open Nautilus for that.
You have to click a button to get a locationbar, and there is no auto-complete! Boy, am I spoiled, with autocompletion(dropdownlist + automatic) in all text input fields
I like the default behaviour of not having the locationbar visible. If I want it I'll just use ctrl+l and type away. And, tab does autocomplete just the same way it does in the terminal 
Sure, it would be a bit faster if it was autocompleted while typing but I'm actually against the idea of adding dropdownlists and such bells and whistles.
But well, I have been using GNOME for years so I am well accustomed to it, I prefer clean and sleek looks without everything possible imaginable added, and I use some GTK+/GNOME apps for which there just isn't a Qt substitute (f.ex. aMSN. I need/want it because it has webcam support. Don't atleast know of any Qt messenger which does support webcam) so I just don't see any good reason to switch over. And no, I refuse to mix the toolkits. I absolutely hate it when an app looks and feels completely out-of-place.
Member since:2005-09-21
True, you will never find any one feature in KDE where the lack of it is a huge inconvenience. But all those little inconveniences really add up for me. Eventually I ask myself, why do I have to put up with all this? This isn't windows!
Amsn is written in TCL/TK, and has nothing to do with either Gnome or GTK (or Qt/KDE for that matter).
Kopete supports webcam in msn, but it's not as good as aMSN.
Heh, of course, you're doing exactly that with aMSN. Better ditch it for Pidgin to preserve your "purity". While you're at it, don't use Openoffice, since it doesn't use GTK (just has a thin GTK/Gnome (and Qt/KDE) wrapper for better integration), and ditch Firefox, since it's mostly XUL (with some GTK widgets thrown in on Linux). Mixing toolkits isn't really that bad at all.
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2005-07-07
Well, I'm sure it takes some getting used to. And I exaggerated, maybe more than a little. But I've answered this to the person above, might make a point for you too:
I'm only saying you could be more productive if the environment would implement features to 'shortcut' tasks - even if they sometimes could make things harder. You'll get used to it if you use your pc a lot, so a bit more complexity won't matter. (a BIT, not a lot, it should be as easy as possible - but no easier).
Let me give an example.
You want to save a file. There is another file with the same name there, but you don't want to overwrite it.
With KDE, you select it, right mouseclick -> properties -> change name.
With Gnome, you have to start Nautilus, navigate to that location, rename (and close it again).
It would be even more efficient if F2 would just work, but either way KDE would be faster.
Let's cut to the chase: This stuff adds up over a day (week, month, year), so use KDE and save time. If features and improvements like the above didn't matter, we'd all be using DOS 1.0 or Windows 1.0 or whatever.
I installed Gedit to test this, btw - how horrible. You have to click a button to get a locationbar, and there is no auto-complete! Boy, am I spoiled, with autocompletion(dropdownlist + automatic) in all text input fields... And why doesn't a doubleclick on empty tabbar not open a new document? Now on the other hand, firefox shows suggestions when doing spellcheck right here, Konqi can't do that. And Kwrite doesn't have tabs - those in Kate suck. Nothing is perfect, and if you like your Gnome, enjoy it.