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KDE 4 Screenshots
carlmenezes writes "Screenshots of the upcoming and much talked about KDE 4 have appeared at Planet Diaz. They include screenshots of the control panel, system tray, tabbed views, music and mail views, plus a mockup or two. I don't know what the Gnome guys are up to, but KDE is starting to look seriously cool."
Why is this modded informative? In this case Coral doesn't help in letting us see what we go to see... because the screenshots on the linked page use absolute URL's, and CoralCDN doesn't do any page rewriting.
Setup proxomitron or middleman to rewrite abs-url's on coral pages and then you're rocking.
Its hard for me reply because I don't see what you are driving at. Are you saying we should all run OSX?
I know a few Linux people who also own an Apple laptop. I recomended one to my sister as well. But people aren't abandoning Linux, unless they are non-technical people satisfied with an alternative.
I run NetBSD on my web servers because I can update the OS without having to totally rethink my own configuration. I run Ubuntu on my laptop because Gnome gives me a nice desktop, provided you don't want it to stay up for months. I run fvwm on fedora on my main workstation because it really does stay up for months.
An improved KDE will attract more people to *NIX. That's a good thing as far as I am concerned.
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The *real* Budweiser maybe... The one made in Czech http://www.budweiser.cz/budvar/budvar-web/product/ produkt_eng.html.
You're the exception.
I work with people who work with Linux all day. About 85% of us use OS X as our OS of choice. There's still just too much fray in KDE or Gnome to consider them.
When I get home, the last thing I want is to figure out why my network card isn't working after the latest upgrade. I'm not interested in finding out that I need to upgrade 15 different libraries before I can upgrade KDE--because I've been doing it all day long. I just want to get on my computer and do what I've got to do. That's the difference. "Customization" usually means petty UI skins, and as much as I've used KDE I've never seen much that was really customizable that wasn't customizable in OS X (except UI skins).
Don't get me wrong KDE is awesome. Believe me, if KDE provided everything that OS X does, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But it's not about a pretty GUI, it's about the fact that everything "just works." I don't need to figure out how to cut and paste out of this particular application, or the quirks of any individual application, for that matter; that's because they all work the same. Maybe that's not a boon to you, but I just want to get stuff done. I don't have time anymore to screw around with quirks and idiosyncrasies of a desktop environment that is just incomplete.
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Ehm, wrong on all counts. Budweiser is not American beer, it is not made by American brewer, it is not founded by Americans. It is Czech beer, made in Czech brewer, founded by Germans. Oh, you are talking about that ...whatever you call it... I didn't know you guys call that "beer".
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Many of us don't, actually. Unfortunately we're in the minority.
One of my favorite breweries is run by a guy who used to be a Production Supervisor for Anheuser-Busch. So not everything that comes out of Anhueser-Busch is bad--only the bottled products.
Then again, after drinking US coffee ...
Obviously, you have never had pure Kona coffee. IMHO it gives Jamaican Blue Mountain a run for its money.
Kona is in Hawaii, which is part of the US.
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It's the brand, not the beer--showing once again that a sucker is indeed born every minute.
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Really.. I use ssh://. What the hell does yours do?