KDE goodies

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:13, Ted Clark wrote:
> Kevin Worthington wrote:
> 
> >>I wonder what percentage of Red Hat users do use KDE?  I'm guessing it's 
> >>probably pretty small, since people who like KDE tend to prefer other 
> >>distros, such as Mandrake and SuSE.  It seems like a lot of extra work 
> >>to maintain two desktop environments if only one of them is widely used. 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I actually use both. I switch back and forth between them. I will use KDE for a week or three and then back to GNOME for the same... When KDE 3 came out I was using it almost exclusively until limbo1, when I starting using GNOME exclusively.
> >
> 
> What sort of things do you like better/worse with KDE compared to GNOME, 
> and vise versa?  I haven't used KDE since version 1.1.2, so I don't 
> really know how KDE compares anymore.  It looks nice. :-)

Stuff KDE does better than GNOME:

ALT-F2 (run dialog) is much better than the ALT-F2 gnome equiv:
- type "gg:foo moo" to initiate a google search
- type "dict:spelling" to do a spell check
- It remembers/auto-completes previous entries

sftp://somebox.somewhere.com/some/dir as a URL works in the Konq file
manager. Drag and drop files and operate on them as if they were local. 

Anti-Aliased text in the Konq web browser

Any KDE apps File Save/Open dialog can use sftp://  URLS.

The KDE dictionary applet

The KDE 'logout/lock screen' vertically stacked applet