I didnt install the whole thing, but grabbed kde-base, dependencies, and a few proggies totallying @ 200mb, and have been using them for a couple days.

Being KDE, the defaults are !estupido!, but also, being KDE, its easy to configure via kcontrol. Who needs sounds every time you minimize a window? Urg.

Fast as a bat outta hell if you use K-apps, and ram hungry. 230mb at idle. Yikes.

Removable media is now handled without issue, gtk apps look like theyre family, etc--most of the niggles are gone.

I could actually live with this. Amarok is fun for tunes, and Konqueror has a few fewer quirks than last year, making it a durn nice and speedy web browser. It still chokes on gmail and flickr, though.

Its still more fragile than Gnome due to the incestuous relationship of its proggies, but for 2-300mb on top of a kernel, you get a full featured OS with all the trimmings. Not bad at all. Ill leave it installed and boot into it every once and again.

of course Im now booted up in Gnome as KDEs sound architecture wont let go of the card and let RP work.

eeek
max whered you get your wallpaperies from mate?

they always seem spangly nice

Quote from: redeeek
max whered you get your wallpaperies from mate?

they always seem spangly nice

Thats a stock Kubuntu wallpaper.

A lot of the nature stuff is wallpapers from Fedora Core 2. Fedora has great art, wish I could find the current rpm to decompress and grab some more shiznit.

i shall googlemanoogle it.

hopefully will grab some nice ones.

on the creative arts webby there are some FANTASTIC generated landcapes on there. just have to dig for them

See KDE isnt so bad...
I prefer Konqueror  to Nautilus (why do the icons have to be so huge!?), plus I find QT libs much easier to develop with over GTK.

Quote from: maximusotterof course Im now booted up in Gnome as KDEs sound architecture wont let go of the card and let RP work.

Youre right, Arts is rubbish, so I use Dmix instead.

Quote from: skidzillaSee KDE isnt so bad...
I prefer Konqueror  to Nautilus (why do the icons have to be so huge!?), plus I find QT libs much easier to develop with over GTK.

Quote from: maximusotterof course Im now booted up in Gnome as KDEs sound architecture wont let go of the card and let RP work.

Youre right, Arts is rubbish, so I use Dmix instead.

Nautilus can change the size of icon v.easily  :?: