Comments on: One Week With KDE : My Challenge http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/ Enhancing your Ubuntu experience! Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:29:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ubuntu - The Operating System » Blog Archive » Considering Trying KDE Again With Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy” http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/#comment-967 Ubuntu - The Operating System » Blog Archive » Considering Trying KDE Again With Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy” Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:31:26 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=275#comment-967 [...] of you might remember my Week with KDE a while back.  I gave it a try and the community response was really overwhelming.  Submitting [...] [...] of you might remember my Week with KDE a while back.  I gave it a try and the community response was really overwhelming.  Submitting [...]

]]> By: Considering Trying KDE Again With Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy” : Ubuntu Tutorials : Dapper - Edgy - Feisty - Gutsy http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/#comment-966 Considering Trying KDE Again With Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy” : Ubuntu Tutorials : Dapper - Edgy - Feisty - Gutsy Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:28:00 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=275#comment-966 [...] of you might remember my Week with KDE a while back.  I gave it a try and the community response was really overwhelming.  Submitting [...] [...] of you might remember my Week with KDE a while back.  I gave it a try and the community response was really overwhelming.  Submitting [...]

]]> By: The Switch To KDE : Day 5 : Ubuntu Tutorials : Breezy - Dapper - Edgy - Feisty http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/#comment-965 The Switch To KDE : Day 5 : Ubuntu Tutorials : Breezy - Dapper - Edgy - Feisty Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:12:04 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=275#comment-965 [...] have yet again wrapped up another day using KDE as my main desktop environment.  Everyone has had some appealing arguments (and a few were heated [...] [...] have yet again wrapped up another day using KDE as my main desktop environment.  Everyone has had some appealing arguments (and a few were heated [...]

]]> By: The Switch To KDE : Day 4 : Ubuntu Tutorials : Breezy - Dapper - Edgy - Feisty http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/#comment-964 The Switch To KDE : Day 4 : Ubuntu Tutorials : Breezy - Dapper - Edgy - Feisty Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:32:13 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=275#comment-964 [...] I have survived yet another day of KDE and I’m still going strong.  It’s not so bad once you get used to it :)  I will say [...] [...] I have survived yet another day of KDE and I’m still going strong.  It’s not so bad once you get used to it :)   I will say [...]

]]> By: The Switch To KDE : Day 2 : Ubuntu Tutorials : Breezy - Dapper - Edgy - Feisty http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/#comment-963 The Switch To KDE : Day 2 : Ubuntu Tutorials : Breezy - Dapper - Edgy - Feisty Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:59:59 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=275#comment-963 [...] I’m coming to the close of a second day now with KDE. I have to say that this second day wasn’t quite as pleasant as the first. I don’t know [...] [...] I’m coming to the close of a second day now with KDE. I have to say that this second day wasn’t quite as pleasant as the first. I don’t know [...]

]]> By: Derek http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/#comment-962 Derek Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:57:50 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=275#comment-962 Kontact & Exchange: I use Kontact to check my mail and calendar on a daily basis. (Calendar accessible by webdav://) The only problem I have is getting the address book to pull in exchange contacts. Any ideas? Does the exchange server itself have to be running something else like LDAP or is that taken care of by Exchange? I can't for the life of me figure out how to connect to either my personal contacts on exchange or public contacts. Kontact & Exchange:

I use Kontact to check my mail and calendar on a daily basis. (Calendar accessible by webdav://) The only problem I have is getting the address book to pull in exchange contacts. Any ideas? Does the exchange server itself have to be running something else like LDAP or is that taken care of by Exchange? I can’t for the life of me figure out how to connect to either my personal contacts on exchange or public contacts.

]]> By: SubSónica http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/#comment-961 SubSónica Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:52:31 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=275#comment-961 Where Kubuntu has a really nice, coherent look and feel, I quitted it after using it for several months because it was a little sluggish, now I use Debian Etch with KDE, wich is not as much polished visually but which is much more flexible and feels lighter. Tip: If you absolutely need accessing Exchange from KDE you have two options: a)Use KDE but keep evolution as your e-mail client b)Go for a pure KDE shop and access Exchange via OutlookWebAccess aka OWA(I can do it from Firefox) Personally, I generally use web-based mail and Firefox from within my KDE box. I enjoy konqueror very much as file manager and general purpose document viewer. I also like very much having KDE widgets inside web forms and I use it also for web surfing ocasionally. As for Gnome/Gtk apps I can´t live without The Gimp, which I use from within Konqueror, and I recognize evolution feels better than Kmail, although Kmail has improved considerably and is very nice to use as well. Other good apps to use in KDE: Krusader file manager, KWorldwatch and Knotes Where Kubuntu has a really nice, coherent look and feel, I quitted it after using it for several months because it was a little sluggish, now I use Debian Etch with KDE, wich is not as much polished visually but which is much more flexible and feels lighter.
Tip: If you absolutely need accessing Exchange from KDE you have two options:
a)Use KDE but keep evolution as your e-mail client
b)Go for a pure KDE shop and access Exchange via OutlookWebAccess aka OWA(I can do it from Firefox)
Personally, I generally use web-based mail and Firefox from within my KDE box. I enjoy konqueror very much as file manager and general purpose document viewer. I also like very much having KDE widgets inside web forms and I use it also for web surfing ocasionally.
As for Gnome/Gtk apps I can´t live without The Gimp, which I use from within Konqueror, and I recognize evolution feels better than Kmail, although Kmail has improved considerably and is very nice to use as well.
Other good apps to use in KDE: Krusader file manager, KWorldwatch and Knotes

]]> By: SubSónica http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/#comment-960 SubSónica Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:50:34 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=275#comment-960 Where Kubuntu has a really nice, coherent look and feel, I quitted it after using it for several months because it was a little sluggish, now I use Debian Etch, wich is not as much polished visually but which is much more flexible and feels lighter. Tip: If you absolutely need accessing Exchange from KDE you have two options: a)Use KDE but keep evolution as your e-mail client b)Go for a pure KDE shop and access Exchange via OutlookWebAccess aka OWA(I can do it from Firefox) Personally, I generally use web-based mail and Firefox from within my KDE box. I enjoy konqueror very much as a general purpose document viewer. As for Gnome/Gtk apps I can´t live without The Gimp, which I use from within Konqueror, and I recognize evolution feels better than Kmail, although Kmail has improved considerably and is very nice to use as well. Other good apps to use in KDE: Krusader file manager, KWorldwatch and Knotes Where Kubuntu has a really nice, coherent look and feel, I quitted it after using it for several months because it was a little sluggish, now I use Debian Etch, wich is not as much polished visually but which is much more flexible and feels lighter.
Tip: If you absolutely need accessing Exchange from KDE you have two options:
a)Use KDE but keep evolution as your e-mail client
b)Go for a pure KDE shop and access Exchange via OutlookWebAccess aka OWA(I can do it from Firefox)
Personally, I generally use web-based mail and Firefox from within my KDE box. I enjoy konqueror very much as a general purpose document viewer.
As for Gnome/Gtk apps I can´t live without The Gimp, which I use from within Konqueror, and I recognize evolution feels better than Kmail, although Kmail has improved considerably and is very nice to use as well.
Other good apps to use in KDE: Krusader file manager, KWorldwatch and Knotes

]]> By: Lamont Peterson http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/#comment-959 Lamont Peterson Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:49:27 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=275#comment-959 @Christer There's a lot of good advice. Here's what I would say: Yes, KMail can supporte Exchange. I've done it once (a while back) but I don't remember how I did it. Search for Exchange support on KDE & KMail websites. Akregator is fantastic. I keep thinking I might switch to a web based aggregator, just for the convenience of access it from lots of systems. I use Konqueror, mostly. I love the ability to make websites that say "you have to have 'this' browser and we're not going to let you see anything unless you do," think that Konq is the browser they want. 99 out of 100 times, Konq renders such sites perfectly. On ocassion, I run into something (usually related to complex JavaScript, but not AJAX, so far) that just doesn't work right in Konq. I keep Firefox, Opera and Mozilla around as I do enough web stuff that I want them for testing. I develop so things work on Konq first and there's very little work to get them working perfectly on other browsers. When I target some other browser first, usually it takes longer to get it working correctly on others, too. Spend a little more than a week with KDE. That way, you'll get to just using it. KOffice is wonderful. It reads and writes the Microsoft and OpenOffice formats, consumes about 1/10th the memory of OO, runs about 5-8 times faster than OO and has more than enough features for 99.99% of users (do you use more than 5% of your word process or spreadsheet's capabilities?). There are also several more types of apps available than OO has. I like Konsole much better than gnome-terminal. For one thing, it doesn't have the kinds of bugs that have been in gnome-terminal for over 4 years and they still can't figure out what's causing them (like the black screen when creating new tabs, which was still happening on FC6 the last time I used gnome-terminal). Try "++" to create new tabs or click and hold the mouse button on the create new tab, tab. Use "++" to rename a tab. I love having a kssh tab without having to have a useless bash process underneath (not a big deal, but kinda nice). The "root" tabs are nice, too. Try middle-clicking a window's maximize button. Try right clicking it, too. Have fun. I hope things work out for you in this experience. @Christer

There’s a lot of good advice. Here’s what I would say:

Yes, KMail can supporte Exchange. I’ve done it once (a while back) but I don’t remember how I did it. Search for Exchange support on KDE & KMail websites.

Akregator is fantastic. I keep thinking I might switch to a web based aggregator, just for the convenience of access it from lots of systems.

I use Konqueror, mostly. I love the ability to make websites that say “you have to have ‘this’ browser and we’re not going to let you see anything unless you do,” think that Konq is the browser they want. 99 out of 100 times, Konq renders such sites perfectly. On ocassion, I run into something (usually related to complex JavaScript, but not AJAX, so far) that just doesn’t work right in Konq. I keep Firefox, Opera and Mozilla around as I do enough web stuff that I want them for testing. I develop so things work on Konq first and there’s very little work to get them working perfectly on other browsers. When I target some other browser first, usually it takes longer to get it working correctly on others, too.

Spend a little more than a week with KDE. That way, you’ll get to just using it.

KOffice is wonderful. It reads and writes the Microsoft and OpenOffice formats, consumes about 1/10th the memory of OO, runs about 5-8 times faster than OO and has more than enough features for 99.99% of users (do you use more than 5% of your word process or spreadsheet’s capabilities?). There are also several more types of apps available than OO has.

I like Konsole much better than gnome-terminal. For one thing, it doesn’t have the kinds of bugs that have been in gnome-terminal for over 4 years and they still can’t figure out what’s causing them (like the black screen when creating new tabs, which was still happening on FC6 the last time I used gnome-terminal). Try “++” to create new tabs or click and hold the mouse button on the create new tab, tab. Use “++” to rename a tab. I love having a kssh tab without having to have a useless bash process underneath (not a big deal, but kinda nice). The “root” tabs are nice, too.

Try middle-clicking a window’s maximize button. Try right clicking it, too.

Have fun. I hope things work out for you in this experience.

]]> By: Lamont Peterson http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/one-week-with-kde-my-challenge/#comment-958 Lamont Peterson Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:24:43 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=275#comment-958 @Daniel arts is not an issue with KDE. I haven't been using arts for about 2 years now. There's no nead to kill it, remove binaries, etc. It's extremely easy to turn off. Just open kcontrol (KDE Control Center) and visit "Sound & Multimedia" -> "Sound System" and just turn it off. After that, all the audio just takes place directly with ALSA. @Daniel

arts is not an issue with KDE. I haven’t been using arts for about 2 years now. There’s no nead to kill it, remove binaries, etc. It’s extremely easy to turn off. Just open kcontrol (KDE Control Center) and visit “Sound & Multimedia” -> “Sound System” and just turn it off. After that, all the audio just takes place directly with ALSA.

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