Comments on: Switching from KDE to WinXP #2

By: Osugi Sakae » Switching from KDE to WinXP #3 : Other Apps

Osugi Sakae » Switching from KDE to WinXP #3 : Other Apps — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:13:12 +0000

[...] my switch from KDE to WinXP at work. If you haven’t already, please read the first and second [...]

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PCLinuxOS and KDE as Efficiency Boosters — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:02:01 +0000

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By: Osugi Sakae :: On The Usability Of Paper Clips

Osugi Sakae :: On The Usability Of Paper Clips — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:17:37 +0000

[...] previous article was a comparison of KDE’s file manager Konqueror and that of WinXP, Explorer. Please take a [...]

By: Koff

Koff — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:33:42 +0000

I don’t know why I really moved from KDE to Gnome. I used KDE on RH 7.1 many moons ago, and at that time I thought KDE > Gnome.

I’ve gotten used to Gnome, and somehow KDE just doesn’t feel right. It’s weird though, I use K3B, Konq, and a really awesome file mgr called Krusader.

My wife agreed to let me replace XP on her laptop with Linux, so I’m thinking about giving KDE another go on that machine. Kubuntu maybe, but the whole ‘no root account’ thing with Ubuntu kind of makes me wary of that Distro.

By: Osugi Sakae

Osugi Sakae — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:19:16 +0000

I don’t have much experience with Gnome. Used KDE back when it was 1.0 or something like that (around 1999 or 2000), then switched to lighter window managers – Window Maker and Fluxbox mostly – until coming back to KDE sometime around 2004. Don’t know why, just never got into Gnome. Of course, for a long time there was no one around here (Kanazawa) who was using Linux at all, much less Gnome or KDE. So no one to influence me one way of the other.

By: Koff

Koff — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:57:30 +0000

Hi Chris,

It was the kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins I think.

As a side-note… I work with a bunch of “Linux Uber Geeks” but everyone uses Gnome (myself included). I had asked around if anyone knew how to display ID3 / meta-information in Konq, but everyone just shrugged… The long-sought ID3 tag was the *only* reason I had kept Windows around

Thanks again for the help,
Koff {Texas}

By: Osugi Sakae

Osugi Sakae — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:59:36 +0000

Koff, Great! How did you get it working? Was it kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins? BTW, my name is Chris. Osugi Sakae is a sort of pseudonym that I have been using online since as long as I've been online I think. Either name is fine with me. (Check out the about page for more details.)

By: Jochen

Jochen — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:32:25 +0000

Anonymous Message #11

As for the skipping of files being copied/moved in Windows Explorer: agreed that this can be done in the case where a file of the same name exists in the target folder. What I think Kent was talking about in #9, though, is the case where the source file can not be accessed (e.g. in a move operation where the source file is in use). In this case the whole operation just dies as described. I have run into this plenty of times myself.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:22:56 +0000

Somewhat unfair to compare the powerful Konqueror with the “we need a filemanager, so let’s hack one fast together” thing XP comes with. That’s like comparing Kate with Notepad, Konsole with those XP “fake-prompt-application”, Krita with Paint or Quanta with Frontpage.

By: Koff

Koff — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:00:31 +0000

Hi Osugi (Chris?) and Glennie,

Thank you! For the first time in all the years I’ve used Linux I’m seeing ID3 information in Konqueror!

I’m very grateful for your help and suggestions!