Star Can KDE Save a Dying Windows Platform?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 3rd Feb 2008 23:09 UTC, submitted by Moochman
KDE This article details the story of a KDE-loving software engineer who was forced to use Windows for his job. "His only hope was that he knew Qt was cross compatible with Windows Linux and Mac, and there was talk that someday, KDE was to be ported to Windows. So he waited. Well, KDE4 was announced and there was much joy. Betas were released and there was much bitching. KDE4.0.0 was released and there again was much joy (and still a little bitching). More importantly an actual honest to goodness Windows port is released. Here follows that engineer's report."
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gustl
Member since:
2006-01-19

Very simple:

1. Get yourselves a Kubunto or Knoppix CD.

2. Load KDE

3. Try to find out what you can do with Konqueror (without Konqi ever bloating!):

- File Browsing
- File Browsing, split Window
- Additionally open a directory in a new tab
- now type a http:// URL into the URL bar
- now split the view again
- now type man:ls in the URL bar
- create another tab
- enter ftp://username@your.next.ftp.server.com
- if there is a pdf file, click on it.

You should now have 3 tabs, first with split windows for file browsing, second with web browsing and man page displaying, third with ftp file browsing or an open pdf document.

Now count the buttons in the button bar. Are they more than you have in Windows Explorer? Sure, but not by much, for sure the icon count is low enough to make the statement "it's not bloated" a true one.

And now USE this setup. Copy files here and there - ftp to local, local to ftp.

You will find out, that Konqueror is to Windows Explorer what a Mercedes is to a Yugo. Both can get you from Vienna to Rom, but the Mercedes is less noisy, safer and can play CDs - the Yugo can't.

That is probably the reason why the Author meant Windows is a dying system.

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autumnlover Member since:
2007-04-12

Now try to uninstall Konqueror without removing the KDE itself. Then you will see the difference between IE-driven Explorer and Konqueror.

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Erunno Member since:
2007-06-22

Now try to uninstall Konqueror without removing the KDE itself. Then you will see the difference between IE-driven Explorer and Konqueror.


That's pretty easy on a distribution which doesn't mark Konqueror as a hard dependency (e.g. Gentoo if my memory doesn't fail me).

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glarepate Member since:
2006-01-04

Are you claiming 'Doze is improved in functionality with IE removed? Or that KDE, and possibly Linux itself rather than one of it's several user interfaces, is benefited by removing Konq?

Didn't think so. But if I did run 'Doze I would want to remove the largest vector for infection and compromise of security and possibly even replace the whole Explorer GUI/interface with something more secure, usable and stable. But I don't.

What would your point be if you were to state it without obfuscation by ambiguity?

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Almafeta Member since:
2007-02-22

And now USE this setup.


... so you intended to prove the superiority of Windows Explorer with that post?

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wirespot Member since:
2006-06-21

He obviously did. If you're the type of person that enjoys fewer features and lower quality software, that s.

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