Jihad! KDE vs Gnome (was: Re: [Gllug] apt-get problem (removing gnome-games))

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, Ashley Evans wrote:

> Hehe. Moving wildly OT - Do people believe that GNOME copied KDE ?

No idea.

However, I did find something really really cool in KDE last night.

I was moving some digital photos from the camera to a directory.  
Somehow I managed fsck up the USB stack (ran usbview while it was 
running) and it all flaked.  So I had to shut down USB and start it up 
again.

Anyway, so I got it all back going again but I knew at least one of the 
files would be truncated.  I selected all the files on the camera and 
copied them into the target directory.  Konqueror popped up a handy 
little window showing the two versions of the images and asking which 
one I wanted to keep.  What's more, it handled all the exceptions first, 
THEN copied the remainder (though mabye that was just the order it was 
doing them) which could potentially have been a long process.

I thought that was a very cool, but understated, feature.  Kind of thing 
I once would have expected only in the Apple world, though even there 
they seem to have been waylaid by the interface prettiness vs usability 
focus.

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Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
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