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

2008/11/11 Daniel Pope <mauve@???>:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:47:20PM +0000, Richard Danter wrote:
>> So, for the first time in several years, I have installed a Gnome desktop.
>
> I lived with KDE 4.0 for a couple of months, but I did exactly the
> same with 8.04.
>
>> I have tried F-Spot and it looks OK. It seems to have pulled in all
>> 4000+ photos but wants to show the thumbnails to all of them. Digikam
>> only showed the thumbnails for the directory I was looking at. Anyone
>> else use F-Spot, am I missing a trick?
>
> I swear by Picasa. Both F-Spot and Digikam desperately want to be a
> Picasa, but they simply don't come even close.

I will take a look. Not going to do yet another re-org of all my photos, is it?

>
>> I am almost tempted to go back to 8.04 and stick with KDE3, but that
>> is not a good solution for the long term. Couple of years down the
>> line I won't be getting any updates and who knows how many security
>> fixes I will be missing. I could hold out on KDE3 until KDE4 matures,
>> but I am not sure I like where KDE4 is headed. I don't have a problem
>> with it trying to look like Windows Vista, but I am not sure all this
>> active desktop stuff is really for me -- I tend to have most of my
>> windows maximised most of the time (terminals being one exception).
>
> KDE4 isn't as much about user experience as about architecture. Don't
> worry about where it's heading for the moment. Just think of it as a
> next-generation desktop project. Gnome has come to be far and away the
> slickest and most unified current generation desktop imho. I wouldn't
> want them to throw that away to try out new things, so KDE4 is doing
> important work in paving the way, even for Gnome, to really compete with
> other desktops, like Mac OS X and Vista, in the future.

That is a very positive way to look at it. Now I feel bad, cos I have
been thinking unjustly bad things about KDE all day.

Rich