[Wylug-discuss] KDE

[david powell]

i use kde , no chance of me doing a talk on it though 
there are a lot of kde apps  koffice , kmail, kstars , konversation ,too many 
to list 
and lots of utilites and small applications 

i guess the bigest advantage i find with kde is the customisation options for 
most of the windowmanager functions 

i just find gtk applications hard to configure correctly the font and button 
size is big 

i have tried gnome in the past a few times but found kde more flexible 
like anything its what you are used to 

konqueror  kdes file manager and web browser is good , i use it over firefox 
or other netscape type ones for surfing the web 
and genaraly find that if konqueror wont display a page , fire fox or netscape 
have the same problems 

http://www.kde.org/  is a good place to find out more about it 
follow the comunity links for the applications and kde look 

and if  you get stuck there are a lot of kde help and developmen channels
on irc.freenode.net for real time help over irc 

if gnome is installed on the system a lot of the gnome applications will run 
in kde , and i think the same may be true in reverse but not tried running 
kde app's in gnome 


kde 3.5 is the latest version , work is now underway to port kde to qt4
this will take time and kde 4 is still over a year away  but trolltec have 
opened up some of the restrictions on there licencing of qt so the outcome 
looks like a lot of kde applications are going to end up with a windows port 
also , this may even extend to a full version of kde ported to windows
although the linux port is the primary goal at the moment 

Dave 

On Monday 02 January 2006 7:48 pm, Jim Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > ...............................  There you will find a drop-down
> > list of filters for some really useful print jobs.  Absolutely anything
> > can be printed in properly formatted booklet format, giving an A5
> > booklet from A4 sheets.
>
> Probably just pipes stuff through psbook and psnup. All these "filters"
> are just command line programs available to anyone with a shell
> <flamefest>
> with or without kde or gnome, or any other windowing environmnet :-)
> </flamefest>
>
> cheers
> Jim
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