Slashdot Mirror
Favorite KDE Tricks?
Nat asks: "Here I am, plowing along at work on an ancient machine, and thanking heavens for how much easier Open Source makes my life. In particular, I've ended up settling with KDE and its main tools due to its ability to be configured into a relatively fast and lightweight environment, despite its number of features and useful tricks. I have discovered a good few of those already, but would like to ask you guys for further illumination: what are your favorite KDE tricks?"
"I am personally very fond of multi-key shortcuts, which I base on the otherwise useless Windows key: Win-A for fast access to my most used applications, Win-W for all window management operations, and so on. I have other time-savers like: KIOs for upload, download and remote edition of files over SSH, and for access to locate queries from right within any file dialog. I have many more; but what are yours?
Conversely, what non-KDE tricks make your daily work easier and faster? What currently non-existing tricks would you like to see implemented? What are the worst time-wasters you've encountered?"
Conversely, what non-KDE tricks make your daily work easier and faster? What currently non-existing tricks would you like to see implemented? What are the worst time-wasters you've encountered?"
a first post filter for konqueror
"...today consumers have been conditioned to think of beer when they see a bullfrog..."
I hate the fact that their apps all begin with the letter 'k.' What do they have against tab-completion anyway?
Most linux users don't know this, but the man pages were named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fsck'ing hates noobs!
sudo /bin/rm -fR / "Slashdot+First+Post"
You won't see any first posts, guaranteed. It will even tell you Slashdot+First+Post: no such file.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
Watch out for unintended completions;
...which the explorer helpfully autocompleted to Frenchpu**y.com
A co-worker of mine awhile ago (win 98 days it i remember correctly) was giving a presentation off his laptop. He tried to go to his CDROM directory in explorer by typing F:, I guess
Nobody said a word.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
Brian, I put it to you that you are quite a rude and unpleasant person. I call my first witness to the stand: you. We shall now be going through your past, recounting your various counts of rudeness, and along the way, I ask that the jury take special note of the defendant's immoral tendency toward "Windows advocacy".
The prosecution rests, your honor.
Wow, think back 6 years. Who ever thought anyone would be saying something like *that*? Next thing you know we'll be compaining that Microsoft Word is unable to open up the OpenOffice documents that everyone is passing around in email.
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death