Last night was the first time I met with B1ackcr0w in Weston to dicuss the starting of the Weston/Burnham-on-Sea/North Somerset Linux User’s Group. We’ve written a [somewhat brief] action plan to get the LUG going, I really hope it’s a success. Even sitting in a pub with a stranger talking Linux was really fun. 
One of the things we discussed was my missing processor and KDE for a week project. In short, we came to two conclusions:
- KDE is shite (all the good apps are written in GTK is actually the conclusion we came to)
- The missing core is a total mystery!!
The last thing we did before leaving was check out my BIOS settings and guess what we found… *Nothing*
When I got home I took another look and decided to see what the default settings were. I pressed the <Default Settings> button (that’s probably not what it looked like…. probably more like this –> <F9> ) and guess what happened… *Nothing* The BIOS settings available to me did not change at all; not one bit; and yet when I booted up everything was back to normal… that is… Two cores now detected and functioning. It’s bizarre and slightly annoying, but at least it’s solved.
Meh…
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Have to disagree with you about all the good apps being written in GTK+. What about Amarok and Kopete? Both, possibly, the best apps in their respective fields. I would also contend that Konqueror is a far superior file explorer than nautilus. For a start it supports fish:\\ (the graphical ssh navigation thingie).
There are others, but without thinking “Oh I need to do X” I couldn’t name them.
This is a valid few points you’ve made, and I’d be inclined to agree with you about Konqueror. Having said that, the KDE team don’t consider Konqueror to be the main file management tool for KDE any more, Dolphin is, which doesn’t have all the same features that Konqueror does.
I don’t know about Kopete or Amarok though. Personally I just don’t like Amarok 2, there’s not a lot more to it than an interface for functions that you can get from other programs like Rhythmbox or Banshee. Amarok 1.4 was tidy and easy to use but the new version is just a mess.
I can’t really comment on Kopete other than that 3 years ago it was the only instant messenger that I could get my webcam to work on but it was buggy and never worked for more than a few minutes. The new version just crashes on both my laptops. Without that feature I don’t think it does anything that the empathy, emesene or pidgin don’t.
Another issue I’ve had with KDE is that bluetooth frontend just doesn’t work on my installation, and that’s using two different bluetooth devices (one built in and a usb dongle) both of which worked fine using GNOME’s bluetooth-applet.
Hmm, hang on then…which version of KDE is this you’ve been using? Because if we’re talking KDE4 then I probably agree with you on most of the points, but if it’s KDE3 then I’m not so sure
I don’t know why they decided to replace Konqueror with Dolphin. Perhaps Konqueror was getting too bloated for them? Shame, it was far superior to anything else on offer.
Yeah, this is KDE 4.3.2
The *only* usable digital image organizer is *digiKam*.
It’s a KDE-program. It’s the only one I use though. But I need all the KDE-libs and Kmail (WTF!?) just to use digiKam. But it’s that good.
Also, I think many people find Kdenlive to be a usable video editor. I myself use PiTiVi, as Kdenlive crashed last time I tested it.
But, just as I’ve said it, if you take lots of pictures, there’s no substitute for digiKam.
I’d be inclined to agree with you, but it’s like you quite rightly point out… Personally I don’t want to install half of KDE on my system just so I can run one program.