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voidmain:
I just installed KDE 3.0 today and I must say I am very impressed. A lot of things that were very clunky under 2.x have been fixed including fonts, True Type fonts and Antialiasing. And there is even a selection box that allows you to only antialias certain sized fonts. Very nice all around. Initially I would have to say it's at least twice as good as KDE 2.x.

psyjax:
hehe... being a newb to linux (and only a dabbler at that) I find myself a bit partial to Gnome. KDE 2.2.2 seemed to lack in the functianality department, tho the included applications were better.

When I first put YDL on my comp, it set the monitor to 8 bit mode and the colors looked horrible, your post concerning screen size in another thread saved me on this so thanx   :D  , anyway, I'm wondering why a comprehensive control panel hasn't been written yet. Is the goal of KDE to provide a working environment as flexible as OSX? That is, an environment were you can do everything thrugh the GUI or, if your up to it, you can do everything thrugh the terminal.

Or are they just interested in providing a sort of front end to get common power user tasks out of the way?

I think both KDE and GNOME have a long way to go before they become fully functional desktop GUI's for the masses, and indeed, for the user. however the progress does seem promessing. I hope they do it, heck maybe Ill read up some more and try to contribute.

Just some thoughts.

EDIT:

HEHE, just checked out the screens on their site. I think their goals are clear as they show off KDE functioning OSX-like Windows-like and Be-Like.  

[ April 05, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

voidmain:
More configuration can be done through the KDE control center than before. Personally though, I don't care if there is a GUI way to do every single task, there may be as far as I know, I will still use command line. It seems to be faster than 2.x.x and fonts are better, and things look much cleaner and nicer in my opinion. Up until installing 3.0 today I was using the OSX theme.  I'm giving the default KDE theme a try for a while. For some reason I just don't care for gnome, never have.  But I can work in any of the window managers. I used to really like Enlightenment but I've been using KDE primarily for a time now, basically because I do a lot of work with Windows engineers and for them I like to show them how much like Windows Linux can be hoping to get more of them to give it a shot.

Master of Reality:
i dont care for gnome either. I have used linux in few numbers, but when i have used it, i preferred KDE every time. I accidentally installed gnome at install and cant figure out where to uninstall, i tried the thing under KDE (kpackage), i it couldnt find the dependancies for gnome, even if i told it not to check for dependencies. Where/how do i uninstall it?
I should get KDE 3.0, it sounds great.

asdf:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
...And there is even a selection box that allows you to only antialias certain sized fonts.
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Can you do me a favor please.. does that selection box only change what's in the XftConfig file? I've tried modifying that already and mozilla still won't listen to it.

If it doesn't, then maybe I'll consider compiling it.. argh the Debian packages arent out yet..

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