I figured I needed something to inspire me to get writing on here again so I’ve set myself a challenge. I have to admit there’s nothing particularly challenging about it, but it’s just an excuse anyway! I’ve been using GNOME exclusively for at least 6 months now and my current Archlinux set up has only ever had GTK-based desktops installed (GNOME, XFCE & LXDE).
Today I am uninstalling my GTK-based desktops and installing KDEmod, partly to see if I like it and partly to see if I can stick it out, but mostly just as an excuse to get on here writing again.
I’ll let you know how it goes. 
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Well, I’ve been pretty much the complete opposite, KDE pretty much exclusively for (I guess it’s been at least a year and a half for the most part.) I still use some GTK apps though, Firefox being about the biggest of them. Others include occasionally GIMP, the standard MySQL GUI tools (administrator/browser), AbiWord (for my purposes, it’s typically really fast), and occasionally a few other odds and ends like PulseAudio’s GUI tools (paman,pavucontrol,etc).
Rekonq is starting to look pretty descent as a replacement for Firefox. GIMP is well, It’s a huge complicated program. It’s understandable that there’s no Qt/KDE equivalent. The rest are pretty simple and if there isn’t an equivalent there, one could be written relatively easily.
There is actually a good paint program for KDE called Krita and it can do quite a lot of what Gimp can do. It’s not bad at all.
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