KDE 4.6.1 from a Gnomer's point of view
Posted: 21 Mar 2011, 03:09
| I am a Gnomer and I have always had a lot of excellent reasons for it. It is faster more functional and definitely more stable. But..... I have this Arch installation on a Pentium D box and KDE 4.6.1 So I started to play with it a bit.  And that thing is stable! No crash even if I dual boot with Gnome. In prior versions an animated desktop cube in kwin would lead to a black screen and a restart of X or reboot. Not so in 4.6.1 and I am pleasantly surprised. I use that "search and start" desktop and it is.. well brilliant. It is functional and it is a "looker" - oh unfaithful me. So I started to look for weak spots compared to Gnome and aha - there it was: Dolphin is a lousy file manager: When I search for the file "Apfelstrudel" in Nautilus I type an A and a p etc until the file turns up. When I do that in Dolphin I starts presenting files starting with "p"  . Ha! Got you! Lousy KDE; trying to tempt me away from my happy marriage with Gnome  That will teach you! Ready to announce to the world what idiots they all are using KDE I Googled a bit to find the right arguments for the "kill" - boy was I going to wipe the floor with those KDE users.  The result was a suggestion to hit CTRL+F. I did - and it was ...brilliant even better than Gnome and nautilus because I could do the search in the entire home. Oh well I am not going to give up my marriage with gnome that easy. So I tried a graphical ssh login to some other servers: | In Nautuilus I just write ssh:// viking@viking-server and volia I am in with nice graphical directories etc. The only trouble with that, is that we need to activate the adress bar in Nautilus like it is described in the Tips and tricks section. But it works well. Ok again I was ready to dissect KDE so I did a ssh://viking@viking-server in Dolphin and HA! Didn't I know it - it popped a terminal or console as the KDEers say.  No graphical environment - If I wanted that, I would use the terminal to begin with. Ready again then to tell the world how stupid KDE is I googled and found that fish://viking@viking-server does it  OK no big difference then even if "fish" is a bit stupid. In fact it is so stupid that it is easy to remember - and that is....good - kind of  General functions then, they are to much and to complicated right? I searched in the search box and it is plain fantastic. And the symbols in the middle of the page for "internet" give me all possible internet applications right there on the desktop. Ah you sexy mistress; you are leading me into temptation  .But KDE is still pulling heavy on the CPU's - way more than Gnome. That is a good and sensible argument. Still I do not notice that during the sessions - but It just is not right. So it saved my marriage to Gnome - but I am in the process of becoming a bigamist  |
