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KDE Plasma 5

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Re: KDE Plasma 5

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Post by itry »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #67
itry wrote: post #64

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If Unity is not aimed at tablets, then why does it have no taskbar? What reason except to save real estate could there be? Who does not want to be able to see which windows he has currently open?

Windows lost the taskbar in Win 7, OS X has never had one. In my experience a dock is preferable when you have a small number of windows open for each application and a taskbar is preferable with a larger number. Perhaps tabbed applications have made this switch possible.

Don't know about Win7, but Win8 has one. You just have to disable the "combine" setting and you have a taskbar with one entry per window.

Re: KDE Plasma 5

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Post by moystard »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #69
moystard wrote: post #59

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I could not have said that better: I actually love the keyboard oriented approach of Unity. If you further install Unity Tweak Tool / Ubuntu Tweak, you can also get keyboard shortcuts for tiling and organizing your application windows. I used to be a Gnome Shell user, but Unity has definitely convinced me in its last version and I feel more productive than ever, as I rarely have to touch my mouse when coding. If only…

> If only there was a decent launcher on Linux, I could definitely put OSX behind me. I like synapse, it's very fast and simple.

I tried it, as well as Gnome Do, but it is far from being as feature complete and extensible as Alfred.

Re: KDE Plasma 5

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Post by kijin »

peatmoss wrote: post #44
kijin wrote: post #37

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IMO there are roughly 3 kinds of computer users nowadays. Of course these are stereotypes, but I think the simplification helps explain what's been happening with DEs lately. A: Expert programmers who need nothing more than a browser, a text editor, and a bunch of terminals. They can do everything with the keyboard. They barely even touch the mouse unless it's absolutely necessary. They usually don't care what their…

I've been saying this about OS X for a long time. Apple is more mainstream than it used to be, but earlier in OS X's life, I saw the A and C groups that you speak of. For a long while, OS X was a platform for grandmas and hackers. I was an early PowerBook purchaser, because it immediately removed the need to dual boot for my job. I could run all my formerly NetBSD-hosted network sleuthing software and open the Word d…

Until recently, Windows has always been an OS for power users. It's incredibly configurable for a proprietary platform, perhaps even more so than some of the newer FOSS DEs. When I was younger, I used to have fun changing the text on the Start menu to "Fart" and turning the trash can into a toilet seat! The former involved editing the raw binary of explorer.exe, but there were GUI tools for doing just that. The latter was a piece of cake since I could do it with good ol' regedit.

Even now, I think Windows 7 had the most power user-friendly DE ever to grace the Earth, and I look forward to KDE 5 since it looks like it might be a worthy replacement.

Re: KDE Plasma 5

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Post by kijin »

itry wrote: post #71
jiggy2011 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows lost the taskbar in Win 7, OS X has never had one. In my experience a dock is preferable when you have a small number of windows open for each application and a taskbar is preferable with a larger number. Perhaps tabbed applications have made this switch possible.

Don't know about Win7, but Win8 has one. You just have to disable the "combine" setting and you have a taskbar with one entry per window.

It's the same in Windows 7. You can also make the icons smaller and enable text labels for an authentic Windows Vista experience ;)

Re: KDE Plasma 5

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Post by rplnt »

shuzchen wrote: post #65
rplnt wrote: post #18

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Gnome doesn't let you switch easily (alt-tab is somewhat bad). Gnome doesn't let you see your apps well (huge waste of space for candy graphics). [and the list with Gnome goes on and on]; KDE doesn't let you launch them easily (yay for ignoring super-key). KDE is super unstable. I'm sure there are caveats with Unity as well. Simply, there is still reason to chose one or the other, these systems are not interchangeabl…

krunner has been around forever and lets me launch any program (even command line ones) or switch between open windows. It's bound to alt-f2 by default but you can remap it to super-key if that works for you.

No, you cannot remap it to super key, that's the thing. There's an utility for that of course (not in repository and with a lot of dependencies), but out of the box it's not possible.
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