Enlightenment Could Have Been The Best
Talkback KDE is just fine if we only take functionality into consideration. As for KDE. But KDE is as ugly as hell, no matter what theme you might find on kde-looks.org. I think Enlightenment represents the true window manager.
[November 21, 2007, 10:59]
Traveling Success With Linux
Blog We took a few pictures on the way down, so pop the SD card out of the camera and into the laptop.with Ubuntu a very nice, very obvious SD-card icon appears on the desktop, and the F-Spot photo viewer opened; With Kubuntu and Mandriva, both of...
[July 28, 2008, 9:38]
Linux Must Be Slicker To Grab Desktop Space
Talkback I use the KDE desktop manager on my Linux IBM Thinkpad and find it makes Windows XP feel very primitive. Usability features such as "virtural desktops", "rollup windows", "advanced window placement", "window pagers", "multiple X window sessions...
[April 27, 2004, 2:54]
Administrate NetWare Via Linux
News ConsoleOne 1.3.3 is a graphical application, so you must be running KDE, GNOME, or some other window manager at a minimum resolution of 800 x 600 with 256 colors. For the purposes of this section, I'll show you how to do so using the two default...
[June 18, 2002, 10:46]
Are CDE And Motif Linux Roadkill?
News The only CDE-specific application I could find was one that converts your CDE configuration for use by KDE. KDE has many CDE-like features, and the lightweight XFce environment resembles CDE even more than KDE.
[February 2, 2000, 9:28]
Security Holes Exposed In Several Major Browsers
News The KDE Project fixed the flaws in the latest version of Konqueror, which was released Tuesday. One flaw would let a malicious Web site that's open in one tabbed window have access to the information typed into another tabbed window.
[October 21, 2004, 8:50]
Red Hat Smoothes Out Linux
News For years, desktop Linux users have been faced with a choice between two graphical interfaces -- Gnome and KDE. Although Rosenkraenzer said in an e-mail that he agrees with Red Hat's choice to make KDE and Gnome look the same, he told developers "I...
[September 30, 2002, 11:50]
Ten Essential Linux Office Apps
Articles Evolution tends to be the default email client for the Gnome desktop, but that doesn't mean you can't use Evolution on KDE (or any other window manager). K3b is available only for Linux and has been optimised for KDE.
[October 16, 2008, 13:02]
Red Hat Doffs Cap At Latest Fedora
News For user interfaces, Red Hat still offers new versions of the two prevailing choices: Gnome 2.6 and KDE 3.2.2. Because of a licensing dispute, Red Hat and most other Linux sellers are supporting an offshoot of that project under the auspices of X...
[May 19, 2004, 9:15]
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful And Maddening
Blog By default, Mandrive installs the KDE desktop. The window, buttons, and the text that tries to explain this and lead you through the procedure is a rather bizarre combination of bad English and at least one or two other languages that I didn't even...
[July 1, 2008, 11:07]
How To Talk To Microsoft About Linux
Talkback Some GUIs (not a great term but to not introduce too many new terms) try to emulate a Windows environment (XPDE), others a Windows environment with customizability (KDE), a Windows-like environment but going for high usability and having things...
[June 16, 2004, 19:05]
KDE Getting Ready To Go Native On Windows
Talkback What I find so ironic is that even today the WPS is very often still revered as a top-notch GUI and whenever a discussion takes place of Linux window-managers someone *always* seems to bring it up, lamenting the fact that todays GUIs still don't...
[February 11, 2005, 15:30]
KDE To Include Google-type Desktop Search
Talkback Its this innovation which drives the IT industry, nowadays however, like so many industries that fall victim to a monopoly (telephones, railways, power - all until recently) innovation totally goes out the window.
[August 27, 2004, 10:12]
