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Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops?
An anonymous reader writes "With KDE 4.0 being expected some time this year, expectation runs high in the linux/unix users camp and the media read a lot between the lines of what the KDE developers say and do. In some ways KDE will provide a standard as to how a desktop should look and behave. This interesting article wonders whether KDE 4.0 will become the complete desktop which will meet the needs of a wide cross section of computer users. One of the common complaints that some Linux users have over KDE is that it is too cluttered. And by addressing this need without putting off the power users, the KDE developers could make it an all in one Desktop. Keep in mind that KDE 4.0 is based on Qt 4.0 and so can be easily ported to Windows and other OSes too which makes this thought doubly relevant."
Vista will be superior, ALWAYS
... in 3D like pages in a Rolodex, then I'm not interested. (sarcasm off)
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.
No.
No it isn't.
I was briefly interested, but then I glanced at the screen shot, and nearly vomited from the ugliness.
I kAgree.
Fixed.
I think I must have got the wrong article from that link. The one I read said that there may be a replacement for Konqueror called Dolphin but that Konqueror would still be available if people wanted it.
Was the one about KDE Being The Holy Grail Of The Modern Desktop anymore interesting ?
what-does-that-make-gnome-then
The Holy Hand Grenade
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I know and have spoken with some usability nuts who claim that there is One True Path to usability, and anyone who wants to do things differently is simply doing things WRONG, and that they need to learn the One True Path and experience how much better it is.
Hmmm... would they possibly be people whose platform of choice begins with an "A" and ends with an "E", and which has "PPL" somewhere in the middle?
Three Squirrels
You realize what you've done right? You've encouraged geeks everywhere to switch their XP to Windows 3.1 desktops for the day! I would, if I could find the "ding..ding..ding" noise to go with it.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Cool. Now we can ask Dell for windows boxes running KDE :-)
. . .does it run on Emacs?
You are not the customer.
Good thing you can then.
Yes, obviously it should be the Holy Krail. Someone might mistake it for a Gnome thing if it begun with a G.
For instance halflife.exe is a good shell for windows.
©God
That's not how you spell GNOME.
"as someone with a Microsoft Office Word Expert cert, ABIWord feels most comfortable"
Wow man, I bet you're a real hit with the ladies :)
THE HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS - CC Licensed Sci-Fi Novel
Whereas KDE policy is "If you disKover some empty spaKe, add an useless feature or somethinK very very irritatinK. The iKon must be shiny, rotatinK, and Kontain at least one K.", the GNOME policy is the opposite: "If you find a feature, it might confuse a user, so remove it." [1]
You never see Mac users constantly comparing everything about OS X to Windows, instead they judge OS X on its own merits and criticize it for its own failings.
Really? I thought Mac users' sole purpose in life is to endlessly compare OSX with Windows.
For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
Yeah, you hack and slash the explorer.exe and pray the M$ gods favor your creation.
QT4 is GPL'd, numbshit.
/., so any idiot who talks like he knows something will get modded up.
Sigh, it's
Awesome. I haven't seen a troll like that in a while. You've got 6 people responding to you point by point. Very nice.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Ok, but CAN it do that?
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
Linux isn't sentient, it doesn't "want" anything, you retarded Microsoft Visual ActiveFaggot.
You mean its mythical and can never actually be found?
Life needs more saving throws.
What, no profit?????
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.