Re: KDE goodies

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:32, Dax Kelson wrote:
> Stuff KDE does better than GNOME:
> 
> ALT-F2 (run dialog) is much better than the ALT-F2 gnome equiv:

The GNOME 2 run dialog is much better than the GNOME 1 version.  I don't
think that KDE's version still has any real advantages...

> - type "gg:foo moo" to initiate a google search
> - type "dict:spelling" to do a spell check
> - It remembers/auto-completes previous entries

Mozilla does all of those.

> 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 

Yeah... pretty much.  I don't know if anyone's working on an SFTP vfs
module for GNOME 2.  I'm pretty sure that a GTK2 port of Mozilla, with
the anti-aliased text that'll bring, is due out Real Soon Now.  ;)