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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?"

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  1. Re:Launching programs with Kapapult by megaditto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Watch out for unintended completions;

    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 ...which the explorer helpfully autocompleted to Frenchpu**y.com

    Nobody said a word.

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  2. Re:Best KDE trick.... PERIOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".

    1. you're a complete fucktard
    2. Taco is a spoiled whiney man-child
    3. Are you an idiot
    4. You are some kind of moron
    5. Idiot!
    6. Rambling Idiot
    7. what a fucking prick
    8. You are an idiot
    9. are you out of your fucking mind
    10. dumbass
    11. ignoramus
    12. stupidity
    13. asshole
    14. Fucktard

    The prosecution rests, your honor.