A new thread about our beloved DE

My first DE was Gnome during the era of red hat and fedora core, been introduced to KDE by suse linux pro 9.1. and never look back to Gnome. However me encountered few problem with earlier KDE 4.x in opensuse 11.1 and switched to Gnome as it more stable. KDE on 11.2 and now back to Gnome again in 11.3.

Apart form that KDE 4.4 in opensuse 11.3, any additional storage such as portable, external device the ease of automount no longer there as new implementation of HAL, yes it can be mounted manually by su but I need to do my job fast as my result switched back to Gnome.

Can we include either moblin or meego into this de discussions? I tried linpus moblin last few weeks that shipped together acer aspire new notebook, impressed with the speed and interface. Here some screenshot of suse's moblin

Opensuse 11.3 under KDE 4.4 is one of them, what is the logical reason behind by implementing the unfriendly partition mounting? Never happened with opensuse 11.2 KDE 4.3. That is the main reason me opt for Gnome until they fix this for their next version.

linux is sooooo universal, are you referring to kernel or distro version?

Nice widget similar to the ol gkrellm, but currently I am using google desktop for my monitoring purposes. Overheard that upgrading to KDE 4.5, higher cpu and memory usages been plagued to some.

I am just wandering if moblin could be run on desktop on top of my currently gnome de. I believed I can proceed with it, but in order moblin to install and run I am need to sacrifice some files currently needed by gnome pulak to make way moblin to install it's own file.

final release supposed to be out at the end of this year but tangguh ke tengah tahun depan, current gnome 3 is for preview only.

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Added on September 17, 2010, 11:24 amThose who is with gnome now, Faenza icons set is really cun. As su, run the /INSTALL, we'll have the iconset extracted to usr/share/icon

The iconsets can be download from here.


This post has been edited by powerwoot: Sep 17 2010, 11:24 AM

In contrary, I prefer Gnome more in opensuse 11.3. Tried KDE, but Gnome aura is more appealing, don't know why. KDE just too fast, let most of the bugs to be iron out first. Moreover I want to try myself Gnome Shell (Gnome 3 preview), really hope the final release of opensuse 11.4 can catch up with Gnome 3 which will be about the same time to be release, atau sekurang2nya repos untuk update dah ada. About audio in Gnome, never encounter any problem with me, be it pulseaudio, alsa or any others.

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Added on September 26, 2010, 7:09 amMe too posted it once from my KDE desktop, ledem see that linux desktop also can give a challenge

This post has been edited by powerwoot: Sep 26 2010, 07:09 AM

Just upgraded my KDE 4.4.4 into the latest stable 4.5.2. I can feel the speed, and some changes been made due to mass bug fixes by KDE developers. Those who are using opensuse 11.3 and KDE as de, the howto can be read from http://anl4u.com/?p=950

Most of the while I am with gnome as I am too lazy to mess with KDE especially these 4.x, previously I used to 3.x Just to play with something new, me ended my gnome last night and replaced it with KDE and do the upgrade soon after that. Hundred of new packages to upgrade and it took about 450mb size of downloading.

How fast is fast, likely I can't tell the exact fast it is but for sure I feel the smoothness of booting the splash, clicking the apps icon quite responsive (no longer bouncing the balls) as well the dolphin. Currently I using it for my desktop, core 2 duo with 64bit version. For your info, I did the fresh install and from 4.4.4 do the upgrade to 4.5.2.

Here's the announcement from KDE about 4.5.2

Read more here http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5.2.php