Re: [Hampshire] Decisions, decisions... KDE3, KDE4 or Gnome?

2008/11/11 Richard Danter <radanter@???>:
> Hi all,
>
> First, please let just me say that I do not want to start yet another
> Holy Desktop War.
>
> As you all probably know, Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.10 is out. Until now I have
> mainly been running Kubuntu because I like the KDE3 desktop and have
> become rather attached to a couple of applications (Amarok and
> digikam).
>
> I tried to update from Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 but that failed rather
> dismally. Previous updates have usually gone pretty smoothly. So, took
> the plunge and did a re-format and fresh install. First impressions of
> KDE4 are not the best. It's kinda dark and dismal, maybe an influence
> from Vista. It also does not seem to be very stable, I had several
> crashes in one afternoon, don't think I had so many in the 6 months
> since 8.04. And I could not do simple things like resize Konsole. I
> guess KDE4 is still Beta quality at best.
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>
> So, what do you all think? What is the best way to go? If Gnome then
> what apps are the best in features and stability?
>
> Thanks!
> Rich

I looked at upgrading SWMBO's Ubuntu to 8.10 but the KDE4 page says
that quite a few KDE apps don't yet work with KDE4 so I left it with
the LTS version 8.04

Unless you have very limited resources there's no need to worry about
pulling in both gnome and KDE libraries, so why not try gnome - you
can still use amarok and digikam.

As to controlling compiz, you need to have the
compizconfig-settings-manager installed. It's only 'suggested' by
compiz so you may not have it.

HTH, Peter