kpaint? The version that comes with RH 7.5 is the worst paint program I have EVER seen; this includes MSPaint and some programs I've seen written in a two-week "learn to program" course.
RH 7.5? Isn't that a bit old? Well, I think nobody is maintaining kpaint atm and I think it's going to be replaced by kolourpaint when it's ready enough..
Kit? Simply didn't work as near as I can tell, whereas I've never had a hitch with Gaim.
Kit is removed from the 3.2 afaik. Have you tried Kopete?
Konqueror? Both Ghaleon and Mozilla are clearly better.
Can you elaborate why so? Imho Konqueror is the best browser here..
Fortunately, KDE auto-loads a lot of programs not made by them like Emacs, Gaim, Mozilla, GIMP, et c.
Pardon? Auto-loads? Wtf are you talking about? Do you think that GTK applications are bad because they doesn't come from one author or what? KDE has the best apps for my needs (except gimp) and thus I can't understand you..
The whole point is you should NOT have to set things like that manually. It should Just Work.
Then blame the software developers not to make support for KDE. Or you can do file which is needed for it yourself and send it to KDE devels and then upcoming users won't have that problem..
Finally, as to security, if a standard user wants to install an app for his own use, then why shouldn't he/she be able to?
Sure you can, I've installed whole KDE, Qt and some other stuff (mostly KDE apps..) without using root account.
And WHY would CD burning be a privileged operation?
Because you've wanted to do it that way? Or maybe you're using some distro whose developers wanted to do it that way. But what's the problem? Is it so hard to add your user to cdrecording group (IIRC debian uses cdrecording group for that..) or run K3bSetup2?
1. More consistentcy between apps due to the Human Interface Guidelines
And this has been a big problem in KDE?
2. Nicer interface layout. Better spacing, and I like the OS 9 style menu up the top, feels less like a windows clone, taking the best from both worlds. Also less flashly, more standard than KDE.
Well, I like the KDE one is better, and ofcourse you can customize them as you like. Not big problem.. Btw, what do you mean with more standard?
3. Options. Apart from Gconf, GNOME comes with far less options. KDE is nice, but trying to locate an option in the KDE Control Center is hell. GConf is a far better way to go.
Have you tried the search of kcontrol? Anyways yes, it's too complicated imho too. But it's far more userfriendly than gconf.. But if you like gconf is better, maybe you should try kconfedit when it comes out (don't ask me when:)
4. Apps. GNOME/GTK2+ has all the apps I want. Gems like Rhythmbox and the GIMP when there is nothing that compares on KDE. Also the old standbys like Abiword, Bluefish and Gnumeric.
Oh, since when GIMP has been a gnome app? Yes I've heard something work on this is going on, but it isn't yet here.. And there is JuK in KDE which is pretty similiar Rhythmbox, I think.. And how about koffice stuff? Bluefish is HTML editor right? Quanta+ then..
5. Lastly, the GNOME community! Sites like planet.gnome.org and gnomedesktop.org help GNOME rock just that much more.
Yes, I love KDE community a lot too!:) Sites like Dot aka news.kde.org, KDE-Look and KDE-Apps are pretty actives and you can see from those what's happening there in community. For developer stuff there's KDEDevelopers site with developer blogs on it.
And at last there's a good wiki (KDE Community Wiki Site) maintained by developers and users of KDE.
And you can create your own modular control center using "kcmshell " and so on. Try "kcmshell userinfo background language" for example. You can get the list of the modules using "kcmshell --list"
I didn't mention when I looked the settings of random screensaver so I reported it, here. This won't made into 3.2 release, but maybe to the NEXT!(tm).
Anyways if you've other wishes or there's a bug bothering you, take a look at bko and made a wish/bug report. Or if there's already one, vote for it:)
Have you ever heard about DO_NOT_COMPILE, not-to-download or not-to-install the packages you don't need? If your distro packs the kde ugly way (like gentoo does, btw) don't blame the KDE about it, blame your distro.
the most impressive feature it has to offer is the kparts system, which integrates virtually everything which (you decide) is useful.
Yeah, it's pretty cool that you can even watch those trailers from http://www.apple.com/trailers/ in Konqueror. Anyways the app I'm using (kdeextragear-2/kmplayer) isn't included in release, but maybe in the future.
Features? KDE has many nice applications. Kstars anyone? I'm an amateur astronomer, and even though I have a legal copy of Software Bisques The Sky pro level 4 I found kstars to be very good (and this was on the early version that runs on KDE 3.0.3 - kstars is improved on KDE 3.2 beta I believe).
You can find the new features of KStars 3.2 here.
Looks pretty promising, but don't know as I'm not into atronomy.
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2. Gnome has a *much* better image editing program, and slighly better Office suite.
Argh, don't say you mean Gimp? Since when it's been a Gnome app?
kpaint? The version that comes with RH 7.5 is the worst paint program I have EVER seen; this includes MSPaint and some programs I've seen written in a two-week "learn to program" course.
RH 7.5? Isn't that a bit old? Well, I think nobody is maintaining kpaint atm and I think it's going to be replaced by kolourpaint when it's ready enough..
Kit? Simply didn't work as near as I can tell, whereas I've never had a hitch with Gaim.
Kit is removed from the 3.2 afaik. Have you tried Kopete?
Konqueror? Both Ghaleon and Mozilla are clearly better.
Can you elaborate why so? Imho Konqueror is the best browser here..
Fortunately, KDE auto-loads a lot of programs not made by them like Emacs, Gaim, Mozilla, GIMP, et c.
Pardon? Auto-loads? Wtf are you talking about? Do you think that GTK applications are bad because they doesn't come from one author or what? KDE has the best apps for my needs (except gimp) and thus I can't understand you..
The whole point is you should NOT have to set things like that manually. It should Just Work.
Then blame the software developers not to make support for KDE. Or you can do file which is needed for it yourself and send it to KDE devels and then upcoming users won't have that problem..
Finally, as to security, if a standard user wants to install an app for his own use, then why shouldn't he/she be able to?
Sure you can, I've installed whole KDE, Qt and some other stuff (mostly KDE apps..) without using root account.
And WHY would CD burning be a privileged operation?
Because you've wanted to do it that way? Or maybe you're using some distro whose developers wanted to do it that way. But what's the problem? Is it so hard to add your user to cdrecording group (IIRC debian uses cdrecording group for that..) or run K3bSetup2?
1. More consistentcy between apps due to the Human Interface Guidelines
:)
:) Sites like Dot aka news.kde.org, KDE-Look and KDE-Apps are pretty actives and you can see from those what's happening there in community. For developer stuff there's KDEDevelopers site with developer blogs on it.
And at last there's a good wiki (KDE Community Wiki Site) maintained by developers and users of KDE.
And this has been a big problem in KDE?
2. Nicer interface layout. Better spacing, and I like the OS 9 style menu up the top, feels less like a windows clone, taking the best from both worlds. Also less flashly, more standard than KDE.
Well, I like the KDE one is better, and ofcourse you can customize them as you like. Not big problem.. Btw, what do you mean with more standard?
3. Options. Apart from Gconf, GNOME comes with far less options. KDE is nice, but trying to locate an option in the KDE Control Center is hell. GConf is a far better way to go.
Have you tried the search of kcontrol? Anyways yes, it's too complicated imho too. But it's far more userfriendly than gconf.. But if you like gconf is better, maybe you should try kconfedit when it comes out (don't ask me when
4. Apps. GNOME/GTK2+ has all the apps I want. Gems like Rhythmbox and the GIMP when there is nothing that compares on KDE. Also the old standbys like Abiword, Bluefish and Gnumeric.
Oh, since when GIMP has been a gnome app? Yes I've heard something work on this is going on, but it isn't yet here.. And there is JuK in KDE which is pretty similiar Rhythmbox, I think.. And how about koffice stuff? Bluefish is HTML editor right? Quanta+ then..
5. Lastly, the GNOME community! Sites like planet.gnome.org and gnomedesktop.org help GNOME rock just that much more.
Yes, I love KDE community a lot too!
If we refer to the largest user-base or developer-base, KDE is the leading desktop for *nix.
Hey, don't you remember that less is more? So we can say that Gnome is leading then..
You can set this in KDE, try "kcmshell mouse" or select mouse module from kcontrol..
And you can create your own modular control center using "kcmshell " and so on. Try "kcmshell userinfo background language" for example. You can get the list of the modules using "kcmshell --list"
Well, gphoto2 doesn't seems to support it so it simply depends on if it's usb mass storage or not.
If it's, then it'll work in Linux, otherwise I wouldn't be so sure about it...
and their Xandros File Manager is brilliant.
;)
Well, it's Konqueror, what else it could be but brilliant?
Emm, so how konsole doesn't work? And the bugs? Can you mention them here or do you have reported them to bugs.kde.org?
I didn't mention when I looked the settings of random screensaver so I reported it, here. This won't made into 3.2 release, but maybe to the NEXT!(tm).
:)
Anyways if you've other wishes or there's a bug bothering you, take a look at bko and made a wish/bug report. Or if there's already one, vote for it
About the kiosk look at here. The GUI for the kiosk will be in KDE 3.3, hopefully.
Have you ever heard about DO_NOT_COMPILE, not-to-download or not-to-install the packages you don't need? If your distro packs the kde ugly way (like gentoo does, btw) don't blame the KDE about it, blame your distro.
the most impressive feature it has to offer is the kparts system, which integrates virtually everything which (you decide) is useful.
;)
Yeah, it's pretty cool that you can even watch those trailers from http://www.apple.com/trailers/ in Konqueror. Anyways the app I'm using (kdeextragear-2/kmplayer) isn't included in release, but maybe in the future.
Well, here's a shot using the kpart
Features? KDE has many nice applications. Kstars anyone? I'm an amateur astronomer, and even though I have a legal copy of Software Bisques The Sky pro level 4 I found kstars to be very good (and this was on the early version that runs on KDE 3.0.3 - kstars is improved on KDE 3.2 beta I believe).
You can find the new features of KStars 3.2 here. Looks pretty promising, but don't know as I'm not into atronomy.