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KDE 3.2.1 Released
TheSurfer writes "The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.1 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2 and is available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik). Sources and contributed packages are linked on the KDE 3.2.1 info page."
If by powerful you mean all those menus, configuration panes and super-loaded toolbars, then yes, KDE is very powerful. But it's very very bad. I find using KDE actually more complicated than the shell! Gnome is much nicer to use because it's simple. KDE should stick to the KISS moto: Keep It Simple, Stupid!
I think Gnome is better. But even better than Gnome is MacOS X. Some will say it's not free, but when you buy any machine from Apple, you get it for free. Sounds free enough to me!
That being said, congratulations to the KDE team anyways, even though I prefer Gnome to it and that Gnome is much better for most users, some users prefer KDE and it's still a nice alternative to Windows. Without Gnome, I guess I'd use KDE without swearing, but I've been spoiled enough by user-friendly interfaces that it's not the case.
NO WE DO NOT.
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Flamewars are a menace and those who propagate them should be horsewhipped.
Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect.
Load up Control Center some time--you've got like a hundred items in there, grouped within groups.
Awesome! Nothing like keeping all of these configuration options all in one place and out of the way. That's real usability IMHO. If you want a "dumbed down" configuration, may I suggest you use the Desktop Settings Wizard, and pretend the Control Center doesn't exist?
Gnome has a seperate Applications pull down menu for programs, and an Actions menu for logging out, restarting, and so forth.
The default 'K' menu contains four "actions". FOUR. If that's too many options for you to handle, make sure you never take a look at the Windows XP menu, or your brain might explode.
Actually, one of those actions is "Run Command...", and I'm not sure if this counts as an action in the sense you mean.
This is a non-issue. In fact, most of the Gnome-HIG-Advocacy talking points are non-issues.
I find it hilarious that people bitch when Microsoft integrates Internet Explorer but find it perfectly acceptable that Konquerer be integrated into KDE. What happened to the whole "but newbies will use what's already there by default, and that flies in the face of choice" argument that we always hear against Windows?
From day one I always considered that argument against Internet Explorer to be silly and ill-thought. Of course, most arguments against Windows are silly and ill-thought. Integrating the browser, file manager and desktop together is a really good idea, and KDE shows to what heights one can take a good idea. What made it bad in Microsoft's case was: their monopoly status; unfinished integration; and using a crappy browser.
If you don't want to use Konqueror as a browser, you don't have to use Konqueror as a browser. And if you don't want to use it as a file manager, you don't have to use it as a file manager. Heck, you don't even have to use it at all! No one's going to sue you.
not to mention that things like Cancel should be on the left, Save and Quit in the middle, Exit on the right, and the buttons should not be equally spaced
To reiterate: non-issues. Get a life.
Gnome isn't perfect
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!