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I really liked KDE up to version 3. KDE 4 seemed like a big departure from version 3 and focused too much on the shell and libraries and not a lot on the applic
by partycoder 10y ago
I really liked KDE up to version 3.
KDE 4 seemed like a big departure from version 3 and focused too much on the shell and libraries and not a lot on the applications themselves.
I think the legacy of KDE is the open sourcing of Qt and the creation of the KHTML that then was forked to create WebKit.
- walrus01 10y agoIn its prime, Konqueror (khtml) was excellent.
- annnnd 10y agoTrue. I still miss that I could search via toolbar, and then search through the resulting pages with the buttons for each word I entered... Pure genius.
- bhrgunatha 10y agoI also preferred Konqueror to Dolphin as the file manager.
- favadi 10y agoKonqueror can do everything! The only all-in-one application I actually like (maybe excepts Emacs).
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- znpy 10y agoGod how I miss konqueror from kde3. Dolphin is... Utter crap. KDE3 had this crazy thing, Kioslaves. You open a remote host via SSH using konqueror, open a remote file as if it was locally available, and KDE would somehow juggle sync-on-save. It was super awesome when editing files on remote ftp servers (you know, phone and stuff).
- MegaDeKay 10y agoKDE still has Kioslaves.
- distances 10y agoFor each their own, I suppose. I love Dolphin, and think it's one of the better graphical apps in the whole Linux landscape, so your "utter crap" comment comes across just as sad and bitter.
- flukus 10y agoDidn't dolphin work with kio slaves too?
- guard-of-terra 10y agoIt goes great length towards not having address bar or anything to type them in.
- flukus 10y agoI miss the text of the tabs turning blue, letting you know the page is completely loaded, although this was probably more important on dial up. These day chrome does even render until you switch to the tab, causing a noticeable delay.
- lmm 10y agoIt's still the best browser going. Things like integrated wikipedia lookup - so simple but no other browser has ever added it.
- Zardoz84 10y agohave you try KDE 4 recently? There is a lot of hate around KDE 4 thanks to the initial versions, but actually is the best DE for GNU/Linux
- partycoder 10y ago"Best" in everything? or best in specific aspects? Have you tried Pantheon? (elementary OS)
- Zardoz84 10y agoThat can be customized a lot (instead of the Gnome mindset of "Do on my way or fuck your self"), and run fast even without 2d/3d acceleration (aka the old good X11 SVGA driver ) ? PD: Add that anything based on Qt can handle faulty graphics drivers far better that Gtk3.
- partycoder 10y agoAnd KDE 4 wasn't realized exactly with the mindset you describe with so much candor? Now Plasma 5 can be more flexible, sure. But when you don't give users a usable alternative for years people tend to look for alternatives.
- DiThi 10y agoAt some point (after years!) it became OK and I went back to it, but it was never as good as KDE 3.5 was for me. I realized it was not just nostalgia, when a friend showed me a laptop with KDE 3.5 and used it for some minutes. While the whole DE got worse, there's two pieces that got better and better, Kate and KWin.
- flukus 10y agoAnd desktop applets. KDE 4 is the only environment I ever used where these were stable and reliable.
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- delcaran 10y agoHave a look at this project: https://www.trinitydesktop.org https://www.trinitydesktop.org . I'm trying to build it on my Slackware just for nostalgia.
- crististm 10y agoI like the persistence at Trinity project. They are doing the project despite the initial backlash from upstream (like: it's nice that you're doing it but why would you???).