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  Quickies: Okular, Desktop Survey, Krusader, Presidential Wedding
Quickies Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Tuesday 29/Aug/2006, @07:57
from the all-things-considered dept.
Ten days ago we got the first snapshot of KDE4. If you already played a bit with it, now you can continue discovering more interesting things playing with the unstable package of Okular, a universal document viewer for KDE4 based on the KPDF code. *** Desktop Linux has finished its annual desktop survey with KDE as the most popular desktop once again. *** Krusader released 1.70.1 last month fixing a security issue. *** Finally congratulations to KDE e.V. president Eva Brucherseifer who married the charming Matthias Welwarsky.


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Surveys
by Tim on Tuesday 29/Aug/2006, @08:48
The trouble with those KDE/Gnome surveys is that when some people hear about them they turn it into a contest, and tell everyone in #gnome or #kde to go and fill it in, and write about it on their blog.

This makes the sample decidedly non-random.
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KDE is starting to loose momentum
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Tuesday 29/Aug/2006, @09:15
Gnome is really increasing in usage, and let's face it: distros are helping out.

I was one that didn't belived the default option for distros would make people choose gnome after KDE or vice-versa, but now I see every day some friends trying out Ubuntu or Fedora, and they don't even know what KDE is.

There isn't something wrong with that, the distros are free to do anything they want, they can even exclude KDE. There was a lot of complain of distros not giving gnome a chance, but now it seems the game is turning, so the question is:
Isn't there anything we can do to make distros give KDE more importance?
Do the distros have the GPL in KDE so much and love the LGPL in gnome?

Maybe we could contact distros to see what we could do to make them like KDE more.
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Thunderbird ?
by aleXXX on Tuesday 29/Aug/2006, @11:01
Why are so many people using Thunderbird ?
While there are some webpages where konqueror has problems, so that there is some reason to prefer Firefox, kmail works perfectly for me since 1998 or something like this.
So, what did the Thunderbird team do to get so much attention ?

Alex

P.S. (k|X)ubuntu 30 percent, more than twice as much as the second place, that's more than impressive
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ignore the gnome/ubuntu FUD
by vm on Tuesday 29/Aug/2006, @13:09
People who spam distrowatch are not representative of ALL linux users.

For e.g. - look at Ubuntu and fedora. Do you really think that ubuntu has that much of mindshare ? And did you believe that about fedora a couple of years back, when most people voted fedora ? I have been using linux for > 5 years and I have been to LUG meetings etc and I haven't yet met anyone using ubuntu personally. I think that ubuntu is out to market itself and so is gnome.

Most distros still prefer KDE. Few ( if any) linux users use ubuntu. They just might not visit distrowatch.
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KDE presens strong in Debian
by petteri on Tuesday 29/Aug/2006, @13:23
Debian is big distro and has strong KDE side. KDE packages are recent (at least in sid), there are lots of KDE/Qt apps in the repository, debian-kde mailing list is much more active than debian-gtk-gnome etc., so KDE is doing well at least here in the free world ;)
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I don't know...
by Anonymous on Tuesday 29/Aug/2006, @19:12
I'm still seeing the people who prefer KDE, running KDE. I'm seeing the people who prefer Gnome running gnome. The ones who don't know, run whatever the default is.

Doesn't really matter which desktop you run-- Chances are, there's a software package you Really Need the Other Desktop for. So the best bet for being able to install random application is to have both, and have both kept up to date, which will lead to people trying both.

Truth is, every now and then, I fire up Gnome. Then I try to extend my panel across both monitors, turn on window snap, and active borders between screens...

And log out, and go back to KDE.

As for SuSE, I've got some 7.x CD's somewhere around here, and I've used it steadily since. Gnome might be the default, but KDE is still well supported by the openSuSE team. The only developments for Gnome that haven't made it to KDE (yet) are the "Control Center" and the new "Slab" menu from SLED.
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konqueror is the best
by konqueror on Wednesday 30/Aug/2006, @11:03
For me "The" Best thing about kde desktop is Konqueror. I don't know what i will do without it. I also like kate as i start using it more.
I have not used its multimedia capability.
The Worst appl i ever used is kdevlop i hate it others love it.
I use konqueror for my all browsing needs i find it very neat and clean.
long live konqueror ...
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