Comments on: KDE4 http://www.paulmellors.net/2008/01/kde4#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Paul Mellors's Blog / Tech News Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Greg K Nicholson http://www.paulmellors.net/2008/01/kde4/comment-page-1#comment-43 Greg K Nicholson Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:42:26 +0000 http://www.paulmellors.net/2008/01/11/kde4/#comment-43 Subtly related, I've been playing with the Xubuntu 7.10 (Xfce) live CD, albeit fairly briefly. Most noticeably, its inbuilt compositor actually <em>works</em> on my computer (a ~9-year-old wreck); Compiz doesn't seem to like my graphics card. A few other niggles I have with Gnome—objects on non-full-width panels not sitting right in the corner (making Fitts's Law cry); and new windows stealing focus—are fixed (or optional). The calendar application, Orage, seems much sleeker than Evolution (which really needs splitting up into bits), and Orage's panel clock is more customisable than Gnome's (though the UI to do so could be improved). File-type associations are the main problem I found. On the live CD, there don't seem to be any applications that can open ODF documents; PNG images are opened by default with Thunderbird(!), and—especially given Thunar's apparent lack of image thumbnails—including Eye of Gnome would have been beneficial (rather than having to <em>view</em> images with the Gimp). Even from the live CD, on <em>my</em> computer, Xfce is <em>quick</em>. Subtly related, I’ve been playing with the Xubuntu 7.10 (Xfce) live CD, albeit fairly briefly. Most noticeably, its inbuilt compositor actually works on my computer (a ~9-year-old wreck); Compiz doesn’t seem to like my graphics card.

A few other niggles I have with Gnome—objects on non-full-width panels not sitting right in the corner (making Fitts’s Law cry); and new windows stealing focus—are fixed (or optional).

The calendar application, Orage, seems much sleeker than Evolution (which really needs splitting up into bits), and Orage’s panel clock is more customisable than Gnome’s (though the UI to do so could be improved).

File-type associations are the main problem I found. On the live CD, there don’t seem to be any applications that can open ODF documents; PNG images are opened by default with Thunderbird(!), and—especially given Thunar’s apparent lack of image thumbnails—including Eye of Gnome would have been beneficial (rather than having to view images with the Gimp).

Even from the live CD, on my computer, Xfce is quick.

]]> By: admin http://www.paulmellors.net/2008/01/kde4/comment-page-1#comment-31 admin Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:20:47 +0000 http://www.paulmellors.net/2008/01/11/kde4/#comment-31 Hello Andrew :) i think you hit the nail on the head, It's not quite there, i'll be sticking to gnome ) Hello Andrew :) i think you hit the nail on the head, It’s not quite there, i’ll be sticking to gnome )

]]> By: Andrew Gee http://www.paulmellors.net/2008/01/kde4/comment-page-1#comment-30 Andrew Gee Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:09:03 +0000 http://www.paulmellors.net/2008/01/11/kde4/#comment-30 I'm experiencing exactly the same as you! It still won't replace GNOME for me though. It's not quite there IMO. I’m experiencing exactly the same as you! It still won’t replace GNOME for me though. It’s not quite there IMO.

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