Where KDE is Going – Part 1
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Where KDE is Going – Part 1
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#2I've always loved KDE and support everything they're going. Good job team!
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#3Looking forward to KDE apps not dragging hundreds of megs of dependencies. And though I don't use it anymore, I still have a soft spot for this DE and the amount of flexibility it offers. Now, if it was a bit less buggy...
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#4My experience with KDE was always that it was prettier than GNOME 2 (at that time) but a massive resource hog, so I always ended up uninstalling it. I am curious how KDE has come along in addressing the bloat issue.
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#5It's a joke.
Here, install Plasma Workspace 2. Open the background chooser. Make it full screen. Laugh your ass off at KDE's supposed attention to detail.
That 3x3 grid in the screenshot? Yup, 3x3 even at 4K resolution.
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#6Nice, I still remember (not so fondly) doing the full build of KDE from source in the 3.x days to get it on my desktop machine. That and a bunch of issues with things that were more gnomish breaking it in weird ways. Using Kubuntu 12 has been pretty nice though. This next step sounds better still.
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#7My experience with KDE was always that it was prettier than GNOME 2 (at that time) but a massive resource hog, so I always ended up uninstalling it. I am curious how KDE has come along in addressing the bloat issue.
GNOME2 is still more lightweight. Where KDE has gained popularity is with people bailing out from GNOME 3.
FLTK still retains the small-and-fast crown.
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#8IMO KDE had an edge at Gnome until Ubuntu. Then Gnome on Ubuntu was the easiest/best DE until Unity / Gnome 3.
Today I switch between elementary, kde and Windows 8
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#9Glad to hear things are still moving along and there are interesting things on the horizon.
I was a longtime KDE user until a couple years ago when I switched to Awesome and a desktop-environment-less desktop (i.e, neither Gnome, Unity, XFCE...).
I felt I was in the minority for liking KDE 3.0 (the infamous "public beta" release), and the following iterations.
Plasma wasn't useful to me (as a coder, I like to have and editor and a shell occupying as much of my screen as possible), but I appreciated the work that went into it.
I remember seeing once that KDE had a bad reputation of working around platform problems rather than tackling them head-on, unlike Gnome. As a result, they were constantly playing catch-up with the system integration that Gnome had built. I particularly remember the Network-Manager applet being bad enough that I just used the Gnome one.
Nevertheless, keep up the good work KDE!
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#10Glad to hear things are still moving along and there are interesting things on the horizon. I was a longtime KDE user until a couple years ago when I switched to Awesome and a desktop-environment-less desktop (i.e, neither Gnome, Unity, XFCE...). I felt I was in the minority for liking KDE 3.0 (the infamous "public beta" release), and the following iterations. Plasma wasn't useful to me (as a coder, I like to have an…
"I felt I was in the minority for liking KDE 3.0 (the infamous "public beta" release)"
I think you mean 4.0