2008/10/21 Thierry de Coulon
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I very much recommend Kubuntu, though it is .deb based. Fedora is just too unstable for daily work. What proprietary software do you depend on?
I did not like the Ubuntu setup the last time I tried it, but I'll take a look at the latest version.
I don't depend on any proprietary software (except iScan perhaps, but I can use another scanner, and Opera). I mainly use Gimp, OpenOffice, VLC, and several KDE tools.
This being said, I can live with KDE 4 based apps if I can get a decent desktop with a sensible file manager. Which KDe 4 does not seem to provide now, and the developpers don't seem to care about for the future.
Then maybe it's been a while since you've tried dolphin. As much as I hated that app when it first came out, I really like it now. And don't let anyone tell you that you can still use Konqi for a file manager: it calls dolphin and behaves more like dolphin than the Konqi we knew from KDE 3. But that's really just fine: like I said, dolphin has come a long way and it really is a good piece of software. This is what's holding me back from KDE 4.x: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165402 (No "show keyboard status" indicator in KDE4 ) -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü