On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, behrouz khosravi > <bz.khosr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not >> the other options ? > > So, this is more why I'm using KDE and not so much why I'm not using > something else. > > Things I like about KDE: > 1. Handles USB drive insertions/etc. > 2. ioslaves like fish, smb, and so on. > 3. Love the window manager > 4. Love the configurability, especially with the unified > notification/shortcut configuration design > 5. krunner (more or less - it still feels quirky but I like it) > 6. That dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd. > That is just nifty.
#6 - it does? How do I activate that? Might be useful, I didn't even know there was such a fature > Things I don't care about: > 1. All the bundled apps. I don't use konqueror, koffice, and kdepim > for the most part. I might use kdepim if I could get it to work with > Google calendar/contacts without needing two-factor on every login. You can use sets to just get what you really use. The way I do it is I installed just the few -meta packages I want. True, I get more cruft than using sets, but with less work. I consider that an acceptable trade-off for me. > > Things I dislike: > 1. I disable nepomuk and its offspring. nepomuk (and akanodi) and a bit of a personal embarrassment for me. In the beginning I advocated they were a good idea; and I still believe the idea is good for the average desktop in this brave new world. But the implementation - that often outweighs the idea. Nepomuk not so much (that one is pretty efficient) but definitely akonadi (that one sucks eggs) > > Things I think might be improveable: > 1. The way it handles window grouping. I dislike a bazillion tabs, > but I don't like the way it does grouping all that much either. Maybe > I need to better grok activities/etc. Heh heh:-) I have that problem too. I forced myself to close tabs ruthlessly and rely on history. I now try and keep open only tabs I am using, not also tabs I might use again. Activities looks like a good idea, but I can't get them to work and feel right. Perhaps I should define what my activities actually mean to me better, this is far from simple. > > I have run xfce at times. In particular I used to run it when > accessing my desktop via NX since it was lightweight. I also used it > exclusively during the early days of kde4, in part because the system > I was running it on was underpowered. > > I'm open to other options. I am not at all wedded to the big kde > apps, so if there is something else that offers more of the utility > side I'm interested. However, everything about kde just seems so > flexible, it is probably hard to beat for utility. For pure engineering excellence it's hard to beat e19 and efl. However, raster and his team still have no qualms with ripping chunks of good out and replacing them on a whim, so perhaps not the most stable environment out there :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
