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Re: I thought you actually sounded like a troll.
by David G. Watson on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @12:10

Here are some innovations that I haven't seen in Windows (maybe they're in ME or 2K, but I haven't had any desire to try them out):

The audiocd:/ ioslave - copy mp3 files directly from an audio CD, without the need for an intermediate program (it's done automagically for you).

Internet Keyword Search: put 'gg:foobar' into the konqy location bar, and take a look what it does :). Same works for more other search engines, plus dictionary, etc. It's also configuratble.

KParts: real embedding of whole applications, which "take over" the window when you want to edit the embedded data.

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Re: I thought you actually sounded like a troll.
by Marc Spisländer on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @20:55

OK, the audiocd:/ is an improvement. The next Windows generation will support this and burning CD as well, as far as I know.
The "gg:xxx" is not bad but, in my eyes, not a breakthrough. If you want to start sofisticated searches you have to go directly to the Google site as well. Of course you could set parameters into the gg-Statement, but then we have a fundamental problem: we must decide: command line or GUI. And KDE-user prefer the GUI, I guess.
KParts: This does Windows as well. They call it OLE or something like this.
A really innovation for me is the possibility to access FTP within the open dialog of any application.

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