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13-Jan-2007 23:05 GMT: More adventures

Many thanks to those who emailed me about my KDE queries. Briefly in response to those mails:

I know I could move the lock/logout applet, but that's not the same as swapping the order of the buttons within it.

Thanks for pointing out how I could have changed the mouse behaviour, glad to hear that the control centre (or is it just that bit of it?) is being overhauled for KDE4.

13-Jan-2007 11:13 GMT: Adventures in KDE

Well, after yesterday's Factory update, GNOME is once again usable (although some things are still broken - basically it seems that anything that's not yet moved prefix may not respect settings because of the associated move in GConf schema location) so I'm back where I feel comfortable. There were somethings I preferred about KDE and some I didn't, so my reflections on using KDE are:

  • Some things are counter-intuitive. Take the logout/lock applet for example. I don't know why, but it just seems logical that logout should be on the right and lock on the left but it's the other way around.
  • I wanted to make Firefox my default browser but I had to resort to Google to find out how (Control Centre; KDE Component; Component Chooser as opposed to Control Centre; Preferred Applications in GNOME).
  • I liked the discreet mail download meter in KMail much more than Evolution's huge pop-up window.
  • The new SUSE 'K' menu rocks a lot more than the new GNOME Main Menu and it just works better for the following reasons:
    • Search in the beagle field at the top of the menu and the search results are embedded in the menu. This just makes a lot more sense than then waiting for the search window to open. If you want a separate window, you can still go to Kerry (or the beagle-search icon in GNOME) to achieve that.
    • The Applications section of the menu actually works and is navigable and sane. This is quite unlike to hopeless and awful GNOME Application Browser.
    • You can easily switch between the new style menu and the classic KDE Menu. This, again, is quite unlike the GNOME version
  • Finally: I hate single-click and I couldn't find a way to switch to double-click.