{"id":158,"date":"2009-12-22T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/?p=158"},"modified":"2017-05-28T12:11:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T18:11:45","slug":"kde-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"KDE Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/kde.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/kde.png 600w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/kde-300x98.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the past four years I&#8217;ve used both KDE &amp; Gnome, but I&#8217;ve typically gravitated towards Gnome. &#8230;&#8230;that is until I played w\/ the controversial Gnome Shell. Get me out of here! <a href=\"http:\/\/live.gnome.org\/GnomeShell\/Screencasts\">Watch the screencasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course I didn&#8217;t really like KDE 4 when it first came out either. &#8230;.maybe it&#8217;s my &#8220;inner old-man&#8221; coming through that makes me resistant to change. I&#8217;ll admit that it&#8217;s entirely possible that I&#8217;ll warm up to the concept, but right now Gnome Shell looks and feels pretty awkward. I really hope they make it an option that can be disabled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Enter KDE:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anyway, I&#8217;ve been curious about giving KDE another shot recently so after my Karmic upgrade was running terrible, I decided to give Kubuntu a shot. It is AWESOME. What a beautiful desktop; I was really blown away.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the issues I have w\/ the current state of KDE:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Network Manager sucks &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t connect to my hidden WPA2 wireless network @ home. Also the openvpn component had problems w\/ Kwallet. I ended up running gnome&#8217;s network manager.<\/li>\n<li>No native SOCKs proxy &#8211; I believe this was included w\/ KDE 3.X (not 100%) hopefully this will be added sooner than later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Odd keyboard shortcuts &#8211; I qualify this by saying odd= I&#8217;m not used to it. Luckily everything is tweakable (which is often one of the main criticisms of KDE) so I was able to set it back to a Gnome-ish feel.<\/li>\n<li>Korganize lacks simple Google Calendar setup. :(<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At any rate, I have moved almost all of my boxes to Fedora 12 now, and one of the things I really like about their KDE distro is it defaults to gnome&#8217;s network manager. I&#8217;m going to stick w\/ Gnome on my laptop for now because of the SOCKs issue, but for the time being I consider my self a KDE man and I&#8217;m loving my office PC.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snapshot1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snapshot1.png 2560w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snapshot1-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snapshot1-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snapshot1-1024x410.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snapshot6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snapshot6.png 2560w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snapshot6-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snapshot6-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snapshot6-1024x410.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past four years I&#8217;ve used both KDE &amp; Gnome, but I&#8217;ve typically gravitated towards Gnome. &#8230;&#8230;that is until I played w\/ the controversial Gnome Shell. Get me out of here! Watch the screencasts Of course I didn&#8217;t really like KDE 4 when it first came out either. &#8230;.maybe it&#8217;s my &#8220;inner old-man&#8221; coming &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/?p=158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KDE Rocks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,25,26,13,14],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-sourcenerd-stuff","tag-gnome-vs-kde","tag-kde","tag-kde-vs-gnome","tag-linux","tag-open-source"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}