Time heals all wounds

Posted by on September 14, 2011

I’ve written about KDE once or twice, but always from the point of view of a Gnome user.

These past few months I’ve been using KDE, 4.6 on my personal laptop and 4.7 on the laptop at work. And I’ve been using KDE because I’ve had no other choice, really. I’m still in bad terms with the general philosophy of Gnome 3, and haven’t felt comfortable in the few days of usage of Xfce and LXDE.

There’s BlueBubble, but my repackaging efforts although functional are kind of broken, and that’s expected. You can’t have your Gnome 2 with Gnome 3 packages as a hybrid. There’s also MATE, which aims to do what I was to lazy to do with BlueBubble: Rename all Gnome packages so that you may have Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 on the same computer.

I’ve started packaging bits and pieces of Mate, but there’s still a long way to go. In the mean time though, and the reason I wrote this, I started getting comfortable with KDE.

True, I bastardized it to the point where it sort of looks like Gnome’s Golden-Age desktop, and I’m using a lot of GTK / Neutral apps like LibreOffice, Firefox, Pidgin and Rhythmbox instead of their QT kounterparts counterparts, but the desktop itself… It no longer feels alien.

I dare say this almost feels like home.

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5 Comments.

  1. Eric Mesa September 14, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    I LOVE KDE. Came back to it after a long stint with Gnome just before Gnome 3.0 came out. We’ll see what happpens going forward, but for now what I love about KDE is that is it infinitely configurable. Widgets have also always been more first-class citizens on KDE than on Gnome.

    If you want to really take good advantage of it and see what it’s capable of, check out my blog (link provided when I commented) in the KDE screenshots and search my blog for activities – it’s the BEST underrated feature of KDE that almost no one knows about.

    • Nushio September 14, 2011 at 2:56 pm

      Hey Eric! I checked out your blog. There’s a lot of pictures, I laughed at some of them, hah.

      I know of KDE Activities, I simply never got the hang of actually using them. I’m reading your posts regarding Activities, let’s see if It makes me switch my habits.

  2. s September 14, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    that’s why KDE was once the most popular desktop and why it remains competitive today = configurability.

  3. Stan "Xeno" Trzmiel September 15, 2011 at 4:01 am

    BTW if you wanna oldschool desktop with icons you might change desktop type to “folder view”.

    • Nushio September 15, 2011 at 7:42 am

      OOOH, Nice. This looks even closer to Gnome than the Plasmoid, but I don’t mind either way.

      I’ll probably leave it as the folder view though :)