I Gnome’d KDE

Posted by on March 14, 2011

So, I decided to set up Fedora 15 KDE on my Laptop.

There’s a lot of things that I disliked about KDE (Why does it install Nautilus?)

Anyway, I think I’m warming up to it now.

Fun Fact: This looks closer to Gnome than Gnome Shell ever will

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24 Comments.

  1. Bender March 14, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    You mean you GNOM(E)ified KDE ;)

    Anyway, i don’t see where all the fuss about GNOME Shell is, that is a really nice idea. I was testing it on Fedora 15 Alpha and find it very interesting and i might even switch from KDE.

    • Nushio March 14, 2011 at 4:27 pm

      In my case, it’s the fact that Gnome Devs are taking away options rather than giving us new ones, for the sake of “simplicity”.

      Others might complain that its for personal reasons or because they liked the 2.X way of doing things.

      • Bender March 14, 2011 at 4:35 pm

        Well, look at it that way. Apple users are used to that and it proved highly successful. Besides, those options are still there but hidden deep inside the bowels of gconf ;)

        The minimize/maximize buttons disappeared for a reason and i humbly agree with the decision.

        Though the decision about the behavior when closing laptop lid was moronic but what do i know. All i have written was a simple hello_world ;)

        • Nushio March 14, 2011 at 4:46 pm

          We’ll see once Fedora 15 actually launches, in the mean time, a lot of hardcore Gnome users like myself have already migrated to KDE or are at least considering staying in Gnome 2.x or switching to LXDE, XFCE or whatever.

          For a lot of Gnome users, Gnome3 isn’t an option.

  2. Nushio March 14, 2011 at 4:51 pm

    Now, I may hate Gnome Shell, but I’m sticking to Pidgin instead of Kopete, Rhythmbox instead of Amarok, Chrome instead of Konqueror, and a lot of Gnome apps instead of their “Ekwivalent”.

    P.S. Shoot me for typing “Ekwivalent”.

  3. Bender March 14, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    Thank god at linux land we have at least choice ;)

  4. Christoph March 14, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    You can also get the classic desktops with icons (instead of the ‘desktop folder’ plasmoid) back and the classic main menu. But please don’t ask me how exactly, it took me hours to find the right buttons. You want options? You get then! That’s KDE. ;)

  5. Nushio March 14, 2011 at 6:30 pm

    At least I don’t have to deal with gconf strings

  6. Manuel Escudero March 14, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    KDE Do not install nautilus O.o at Least not in F14… Did you have Gnome Before you install KDE? That might be the reason :) KDE uses and only installs dolphin as File Manager

    • Nushio March 15, 2011 at 9:15 am

      I used Fedora 15 KDE. It was a clean install, it wasn’t an upgrade. Nautilus was there, but could be removed “safely”.

  7. Ryan Rix March 14, 2011 at 7:44 pm

    You’re doing it wrong.

  8. bochecha March 14, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    In case all you want is to keep the good ol’ Gnome 2, but adapted to the new Gnome 3 technologies (Gtk3, etc…) instead of the slowly dying current Gnome 2.x made of obsolete components, I’m sure the EXDE devs will be more than happy to receive your contributions.

    • Nushio March 15, 2011 at 9:23 am

      And I’ll probably look into that. I’m not really fond of KDE (Sorry KDE’ers!), and ‘Shell’ isn’t an option. Right now my options are stick to old Gnome (2.32) for another few months, or adapt myself to KDE.

  9. Tomasz March 15, 2011 at 3:28 am

    “This looks closer to Gnome than Gnome Shell ever will”

    Well, GNOME-Shell IS GNOME. Nothing can look more like a thing than a thing itself. (Maybe except Charlie Chaplin in CC-look alike contest).

  10. Stan aka Xeno March 15, 2011 at 9:02 am

    I’ve tried GnomeShell and it seems to be nice, tho my concern are tools for user managent, network settings etc…. I wonder why it screems MacOS from every corner.
    Also it’s too bad in 2011 users have to dig in config files to get their desktop working/looking the way the want.

    • Nushio March 15, 2011 at 9:26 am

      My concern with Shell is that it completely disrupts my workflow, in favor of a shinier but less functional one. They’ve removed the widgets that stayed on the Panel, they’re removing minimizing, and the app drawer now zooms out your entire desktop, instead of integrating nicely.

  11. Stan aka Xeno March 15, 2011 at 9:46 am

    I hope ‘Shell will evolve into something usable. I found some of hte concepts how the desktop works there quite interesting, tho I liked older builds more (with ths black fav apps/locations thingy). I still remember how limited KDE 4.0 was. Too bad it has nothing comparable to plasma, it’d give GnomeShell flexibility it lacks.
    Anyway,welcome to the DE of choices, hope you’ll like it. Enjoy your stay :)

    • Nushio March 15, 2011 at 1:27 pm

      I’m hoping noisy people like myself and Nicu (And many others chime in dislike of Shell) wake the Gnome Devs up and ‘fix’ Shell for F16. Now that’d be a beefy miracle.

  12. Kevin Kofler March 15, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    > Why does it install Nautilus?

    Because of this bug in the Fedora 15 Alpha:
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678909

    Basically, gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) was made a default-installed admin tool in Fedora for the F15 Alpha, and we noticed too late that it’s dragging in Nautilus. (Otherwise, we’d have excluded it until this got fixed.)

    This is fixed now, gnome-disk-utility no longer depends on Nautilus, so Fedora 15 Beta KDE should no longer install Nautilus.

    • Nushio March 16, 2011 at 9:14 am

      I figured it was dragged by something, because I managed to remove it without taking down all gtk with it :P

  13. charmander1 March 25, 2011 at 11:58 pm

    Does this mean your not going to the gnomeshell release parties?

  14. drfanatic April 27, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    I have a XFCE-Gnome. With Nautilus!