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2009-10-12 , 12:02
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I used KDE in the early days, but prefer Gnome now. Perhaps the perfect desktop would be a future with Gnome using QT...
 
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2009-10-12 , 12:03
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KDE was my very first desktop environment when I tried GNU/Linux back in... I don't know. Ages ago.
It was the reason I left GNU/Linux again and returned to Windows.

Second try was with Gnome soon afterwards, and Gnome convinced me. I keep KDE installed on my gentoo box, though, just to be able to watch how it evolves.

I try KDE every other month or so to see if I could learn to love it.I have to admit that I don't. No matter how I theme it, it always has this cheap, plastic-toy look to it. (Which, without knowing too much about the details behind it, is largely because of Qt, I think.)

I share your concerns about Mono in Gnome, yes, and I believe Miguel de Icaza is a lost cause, meanwhile, but... nothing's perfect. Gnome is just made for me the way it is, even with it's negative aspects.

What I like about Qt is that it's also licensed under the GPLv3. I personally hated it when Nokia imposed the LGPL on Qt, but this is hardly a valid point in comparison with GTK.

Maemo moving to Qt now doesn't make me like or want Qt/KDE more. Not at all. Why should it? Qt doesn't get better because it's used by another platform.

If anything, it might alienate me from Maemo a bit, but the Nokia and community will be able to cope with that eventually.
 
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2009-10-12 , 12:08
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I;m already an ardent KDE supporter, so it'd take a lot for me to ever switch away from it.
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2009-10-12 , 12:09
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I have always been a kde user.

i like it because:
> i find the kde revolutionary development process more exciting/forward-looking.
> i prefer kde apps.

i was interested in nokia internet tablets before nokia bought trolltech, but the fact that they did turned my interest into a confirmed purchase.

i don't get the whole anti-MS religion or the dislike of mono/novell, i am interested in OS not FOSS, and find it odd that people need to get their knickers in a twist over what i see as a non-issue.

i guess to lean towards torvalds rather than stallman.
 
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2009-10-12 , 12:11
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Originally Posted by rm42 View Post
Those of you thinking of trying KDE, please use a distro that is really into KDE. Canonical puts a lot more resources and interest in Ubuntu, which explains why Kubuntu has never really shone. I personally would recommend Mandriva or Fedora, although PCLinuxOS is doing really well in its KDE 4.x test release.

As for feeling comfortable with KDE 4, maybe this will help:

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2...ties-tutorial/

Enjoy.
agreed, i'd recommend people try opensuse 11.2 when it arrives in November.
 
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2009-10-12 , 12:19
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
I try KDE every other month or so to see if I could learn to love it.I have to admit that I don't. No matter how I theme it, it always has this cheap, plastic-toy look to it. (Which, without knowing too much about the details behind it, is largely because of Qt, I think.)
Actually, if you use a Qt app on Gnome with a modern Linux distro, it looks just like a Gnome app, thanks to QtGtkStyle.
 
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2009-10-12 , 13:11
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
What I like about Qt is that it's also licensed under the GPLv3. I personally hated it when Nokia imposed the LGPL on Qt, but this is hardly a valid point in comparison with GTK.
Why would you dislike that Nokia made Qt available with the LGPL? Besides, Nokia did not impose it. You can still use Qt to create GPL only apps for free. Are you saying that paid Qt licensing is no longer available for creating closed source apps? That is news to me.
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2009-10-12 , 13:15
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Originally Posted by ruskie View Post
I like GTK+ based apps though(plain GTK NO GNOME[and I love the GTK file open/save dialogs]).
Well, good thing there is a choice. The main reason I don't like Gnome is precisely because I dislike its file dialogs. I can't stand not being able to rename files from within those dialog boxes and being forced to save a file with the wrong name because of that.

But, to each his own. Cheers.
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2009-10-12 , 13:20
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Originally Posted by vvaz View Post
This is "official" KDE hackers reaction on free N900.

http://dot.kde.org/2009/10/12/free-n900

Very positive of course

Info about some KDE/Qt software running on N900, future plans and
video of Plasma widgets running on N900.
The video tells more than thousand pics! That's something i'm gonna slap on my Touch Book
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2009-10-12 , 13:44
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Those of you thinking of trying KDE, please use a distro that is really into KDE. Canonical puts a lot more resources and interest in Ubuntu, which explains why Kubuntu has never really shone.
That's a good point. However, I read that this has changed somewhat with the upcoming Karmic release by Canonical. I think I'll give that a try first before I decide to move to another distro.

One big reason I picked Ubuntu is because of the debian package system. If I move to another distro, it will be one that has the same package management system.
 
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