Ubuntu KDE

[Eric Dunbar]

> Here's a few things I would expect in a window manager that "just
> works":
> 
> 1) A comprehensible, easily updatable menu system.  GNOME easily let me
> add and delete entries.  But in order to move an entry from one folder
> to another, I had to enter a special command into Nautilus (not any
> browser, just Nautilus).  Note that the GNOME menu issues are clearly
> documented in several forums, not just the Ubuntu forums.  KDE has a
> special tool just for updating the menus.  Yay, KDE!

Am a tad disappointed with that but supposedly is being fixed in GNOME
in the near future.

> 2) Like Internet Explorer, there should be a single tool that works as
> both a Web Browser, and a File Manager.  Nautilus makes a good file
> manager, but doesn't work at all as a web browser.  Mozilla makes a
> superior bloated web browser, but a poor file manager (and was not able
> to be used to update the menus).  Yay, Konqueror!

To each his or her own! I find Konqueror to be sub-par on both counts.
It's nowhere near FireFox as a browser (very surpising given what
Apple has done with KHTML in Safari... maybe I was using too old a
version of Konqueror? 3.1), and I find both Nautilus and Knoqueror to
be less than ideal file managers (though, Nautilus does eke out
slightly ahead of K).

Eric.