Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops?

An anonymous reader writes "With KDE 4.0 being expected some time this year, expectation runs high in the linux/unix users camp and the media read a lot between the lines of what the KDE developers say and do. In some ways KDE will provide a standard as to how a desktop should look and behave. This interesting article wonders whether KDE 4.0 will become the complete desktop which will meet the needs of a wide cross section of computer users. One of the common complaints that some Linux users have over KDE is that it is too cluttered. And by addressing this need without putting off the power users, the KDE developers could make it an all in one Desktop. Keep in mind that KDE 4.0 is based on Qt 4.0 and so can be easily ported to Windows and other OSes too which makes this thought doubly relevant."

Of course not

[Anonymous Coward]

Vista will be superior, ALWAYS

If I can't flip my open windows ...

[LaughingCoder]

... in 3D like pages in a Rolodex, then I'm not interested. (sarcasm off)

Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops?

[Anonymous Coward]

No.

No it isn't.

I was briefly interested, but then I glanced at the screen shot, and nearly vomited from the ugliness.

Re:Juvenile 'K' Naming Jokes? Holy Grail?

[b0xii]

I kAgree.

Re:Juvenile 'K' Naming Jokes? Holy Grail?

[Anonymous Coward]

by Anonymous Koward on Thursday March 29, @10:08AM (#18528533)

Fixed.

I still don't know

[CmdrGravy]

I think I must have got the wrong article from that link. The one I read said that there may be a replacement for Konqueror called Dolphin but that Konqueror would still be available if people wanted it.

Was the one about KDE Being The Holy Grail Of The Modern Desktop anymore interesting ?

what-does-that-make-gnome-then

[richdun]

what-does-that-make-gnome-then

The Holy Hand Grenade

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Re:The Holy Grail of Desktops?

[rueger]

I know and have spoken with some usability nuts who claim that there is One True Path to usability, and anyone who wants to do things differently is simply doing things WRONG, and that they need to learn the One True Path and experience how much better it is.

Hmmm... would they possibly be people whose platform of choice begins with an "A" and ends with an "E", and which has "PPL" somewhere in the middle?

Re:Explorer is just a shell

[saskboy]

You realize what you've done right? You've encouraged geeks everywhere to switch their XP to Windows 3.1 desktops for the day! I would, if I could find the "ding..ding..ding" noise to go with it.

Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

Cool. Now we can ask Dell for windows boxes running KDE :-)

Yes, but. . .

[Limburgher]

. . .does it run on Emacs?

Well...

[logixoul]

Good thing you can [kdedevelopers.org] then.

Re:Juvenile 'K' Naming Jokes? Holy Grail?

[Delkster]

Yes, obviously it should be the Holy Krail. Someone might mistake it for a Gnome thing if it begun with a G.

There are even better shells for windows.

[jozmala]

For instance halflife.exe is a good shell for windows.

Re:The Holy Grail of Desktops?

[BobPaul]

Hmmm... would they possibly be people whose platform of choice begins with an "A" and ends with an "E", and which has "PPL" somewhere in the middle?

That's not how you spell GNOME.

Re:Damn KDE Fanboys

[bhunachchicken]

"as someone with a Microsoft Office Word Expert cert, ABIWord feels most comfortable"

Wow man, I bet you're a real hit with the ladies :)

Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not like you're deleting explorer.exe (I hope).

Oops.

As Uncyclopedia says:

[dildo]

Whereas KDE policy is "If you disKover some empty spaKe, add an useless feature or somethinK very very irritatinK. The iKon must be shiny, rotatinK, and Kontain at least one K.", the GNOME policy is the opposite: "If you find a feature, it might confuse a user, so remove it." [1]

Re:KDE doesn't stand a chance until....

[leathered]

You never see Mac users constantly comparing everything about OS X to Windows, instead they judge OS X on its own merits and criticize it for its own failings.

Really? I thought Mac users' sole purpose in life is to endlessly compare OSX with Windows.

Re:Why?

[CasperIV]

Yeah, you hack and slash the explorer.exe and pray the M$ gods favor your creation.

Re:There are even better shells for windows.

[Orestesx]

Geek gamer card revoked! Everyone knows it's hl.exe

Re:KDE's Achilles' heel

[Anonymous Coward]

QT4 is GPL'd, numbshit.

Sigh, it's /., so any idiot who talks like he knows something will get modded up.

Re:Of course not

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfair moderation, this post obviously deserves +1 sarcastic

Re:KDE doesn't stand a chance until....

[Hatta]

Awesome. I haven't seen a troll like that in a while. You've got 6 people responding to you point by point. Very nice.

Re:There are even better shells for windows.

[gsarnold]

So what happens if you set hl.exe as your shell, and you use it to log on to Second Lif.... (* Poof *)

Re:Why?

[misleb]

Yes, everything still works. If you've tried blackbox for windows, GeOShell, or Litestep, you'll notice everything still works. What would KDE make different about that? It's not like it goes off and assinates MFC and SWF.NET to replace them with libqt

Ok, but CAN it do that?

-matthew

Re:KDE doesn't stand a chance until....

[Anonymous Coward]

If Linux wants to gain users, yes, it has to be much better than Windows. I would think that obvious.

Linux isn't sentient, it doesn't "want" anything, you retarded Microsoft Visual ActiveFaggot.

Holy Grail?

[Grashnak]

You mean its mythical and can never actually be found?

Re:There are even better shells for windows.

[Bastard of Subhumani]

You'd have 2 * 0.5 lives. Unlike most of us here.

Re:Why?

[Bastard of Subhumani]

What, no profit?????

Re:There are even better shells for windows.

[spikedvodka]

I'm using (-1)life. iLife is root on my system.

Get it right it's sqrt(-1)Life

otherwise you just have a negative life

Re:There are even better shells for windows.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's too complex for me...