Comments on: KDE- Hello Again http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Fri, 17 May 2013 20:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: Henrik Pauli http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-71172 Henrik Pauli Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:06:12 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-71172 I was somehow thinking you had been a KUser all this time! Colour me surprised! XD

]]> By: James http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70870 James Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:42:32 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70870 “Who else should I be blaming. When my desktop environment cannot meet certain expectations, what am I to do? I’m am running Debian Sid.”

Hibernation isn’t really handled by the desktop environment. I believe both Gnome and KDE throw the task to swsusp, uswsusp, or suspend2.

]]> By: Wolfger http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70855 Wolfger Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:44:14 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70855 Welcome home!

In my early Linux days, I loved Enlightenment and Black/Flux-box. I couldn’t see the appeal of either of the “big 2″. Then around about the release of KDE 3.2 I tried KDE again, and I fell in… like. Not love yet, but the potential was there. K3b, Akregator, Digikam… wonderful apps that made me want a KDE environment. With my recent switch to Ubuntu, I too switched to Gnome. But it didn’t give me the impression that KDE was bloated, it gave me the impression that I was now computing with handcuffs on. I couldn’t do the things I wanted to do to customize my apps. My affair with Gnome only lasted a week and a half, and I swear it didn’t mean a thing! Thankfully KDE took me back. :-)

]]> By: Terence Simpson http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70830 Terence Simpson Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:08:42 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70830 @Aaron:
Well, I tend to just use aptitude, but it was just an example app to show the difference.

]]> By: onety-three http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70813 onety-three Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:57:21 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70813 @Aaron:
Firefox/Thunderbird use their own toolkit with a little smoke and mirrors to look like GTK apps, that’s why they don’t really fit into Gnome either and prove to make integration into KDE even more difficult than Gnome apps.

]]> By: Aaron http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70808 Aaron Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:58:25 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70808 @Ben Lewis, @Jake- Everything in KDE thus far has been wonderful. I’m really looking forward to 4.0!

@Seth- This is my typical writing style. I usually bring out the peanut gallery with my posts. :)

@al- Thanks for your ever-so-insightful comment. It really adds to the discussion here.

@Terence- Since using aptitude, I haven’t pulled up Synaptic in a *long* time.

@yay- Yes, it definitely runs faster, and I could make KDE look *exacly* like a Gilouche environment with little effort. By the way, how is Gilouche *any* different from ClearLooks?

@Lure- Just run Firefox/Thunderbird in KDE, and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

@David- Yeah, I think I’ll just stick with mostly KDE apps though. IceApe doesn’t look half-bad, however. Pleasantly surprised.

@Hoàng Đức Hiếu- Who else should I be blaming. When my desktop environment cannot meet certain expectations, what am I to do? I’m am running Debian Sid.

@fred- Thank you sweetheart. It’s good to be back. :)

]]> By: fred http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70798 fred Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:57:05 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70798 Welcome back to KDE, my dear ;)

]]> By: Hoàng Đức Hiếu http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70795 Hoàng Đức Hiếu Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:47:22 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70795 Are you using the same versions of the same distro? Because blaming un-hibernateable on the desktop env makes no sense to me.

]]> By: David http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70790 David Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:57:21 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70790 About gtk apps in kde, have you installed gtk-qt-engine it will make your gtk apps fit in better with kde. Its not perfect but its close.

as for yay: yes you can have a gilouche equivalent. use qtcurve and a gilouche colour scheme. hope your enjoying WinXP :P

]]> By: Lure http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70784 Lure Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:56:51 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70784 Can you post some screenshots about GTK in KDE that bothers you? Sure gtk looks different in KDE, but I cannot say it looks ugly – or I just got used to it. ;-)

]]> By: yay http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70768 yay Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:18:30 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70768 ……..you launch applications faster, and you look good.

Hhahahahahaha

Looks good hahahah

Gimme a Gilouche Equivalent.

]]> By: Terence Simpson http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70767 Terence Simpson Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:08:04 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70767 Yep, KDE is pretty sweet and getting better all the time. You can really see the improvements from release to release.
On the “GTK apps look ugly” subject, yeah, that’s true. QtCurve can ease that though. For example Synaptic with QtCurve style looks much nicer, or at least more integrated.

]]> By: al http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70762 al Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:11:21 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70762 This sounds like a love letter … and next week he loves gnome again. give me a break.

]]> By: Seth http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70759 Seth Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:51:04 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70759 Sounds like it’s flame-war week on Aaron’s blog. :-)

Or maybe not; sometimes I get the impression there’s not nearly as many Gnome die-hards out there as the KDE… Anyway, I personally don’t like either. That having been said these screenies of KDE 4 are awful pretty.

]]> By: Jake http://pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70754 Jake Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:03:16 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/09/27/kde-hello-again/#comment-70754 I love KDE. I too started with KDE back in the SuSE days and loved it. Somewhere along the way I switched to GNOME for a few months. I finally realized how bad it was and now I’m back with KDE running almost all KDE software, except for Songbird and Firefox.

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