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KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released
dbhost writes "Along with this morning's cup of coffee and log reviews, I discovered that the KDE team is moving forward with a long awaited beta release of KDE 4.0 beta release of KDE 4.0. The most interesting item I found in the notes is that the file manager in KDE is being separated from Konqueror into a component called Dolphin. Also, according to the announcement, konsole has been treated to a number of improvements such as split view, and history highlighting."
Yes, open source projects love to talk about their 'big plans'. Making 'big plans' is so much fun, new stories on Slashdot where you get praised for being so ambitious, grandiose roadmaps to have the fans chearing, and so.
After all sitting around a desk for 8-12 hours a day fixing real problems that users have been complaining for years with desktop Linux requires serious and tedious work. Who the fuck wants to do that when you aren't getting paid?
And what does this have to do with KDE? Windows emulation crap is a pure GNOME concern. Real desktops innovate, don't emulate.
Want to hear the voice of GOD? cat
You need a thing to rip CDs?
cdparanoia -B
Open terminal rxvt hopefully and type cdpa hit TAB and add the -B
Oh I hate stupid GUIs. Smart ones I have some time for.
play 4a8ties the
GNOME project is a big shit
GTK toolkit is retro
GObject compared to plain c++ is orrible
the entire desktop is featureless
Gconf ? no thanks
KDE is better gnome die die hahahhahaha
C vs. C++? What, is it 1995 again? Objective-C trumps them both, anyway.
I have used Linux for many years. I have tried out KDE from the very early versions of KDE/QT. However, the only thing that has always sent me back to Gnome in a day or two has been how farking ugly/blocky the QT widgets and toolkit, etc can be!
Seriously, I never understood how people could like KDE/QT. It has always just been too farking blocky for me. Gnome is so much smoother as far as the GUI drawing goes. Look at some of the screenshots I posted. The corners that are supposed to be "rounded" don't even come close. Oh, and why do the fonts in KDE look like blocky crap, however look so much smoother in Gnome on the same system with the same fonts? Seriously, I log into KDE on a system and look at the fonts and they look like blocky crap. Log out, log in to Gnome and I have very nice AA fonts. Yes, I set up KDE to do AA fonts, etc. I have been using Linux since the early days when Linux GUI was _really_ butt ugly, so I know what I am doing.
Any way, I really am not trolling here, I am just wondering why QT has never hired one graphics designer that could smooth things out so everything is not such a blocking mess. I would love to use QT since it works on Linux, Max and MS Windows. However, on Mac and Linux it looks like total crap. Anyway, I went to OS X since I didn't want to look at an ugly GUI desktop at home. At work I don't have a choice, but at home I do, so I replaced two laptops and two desktops with Intel-Based Macs and have been a happy camper. I _really_ wanted to just find a Linux that looked halfway-decent (Gnome for me) ___and___ supported the hardware I needed.
Oh, by the way, I think Gnome since 2.x as looked pretty nice. Nice rounded corners, softness, etc. I Just never understood why KDE/QT always felt like this big blocky GUI to me. Oh well, "To Each His Own".
General, you are listening to a machine! Do the world a favor and don't act like one.