[NBLUG/talk] Upgrading a Debian box to KDE 3.5

[Lincoln Peters]

On Friday 30 December 2005 20:01, Troy Arnold wrote:
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but:
> Right-click on the panel --> add new panel

Oh...that's right...how did I miss that?

And as I investigate further, I'm starting to find types of panels I didn't 
know even existed!  Not sure if they're useful (the "Universal Sidebar" might 
be useful if I could just move it to the other monitor!), but they are 
interesting.

>
> I'm using two myself, plus a disembodied kpager.
>
> Bonus notes:
> I've always been a bit of a terminal junkie, but recently I've been finding
> krusader to be a damn fine GUI file manager.

I just looked at Krusader.  I'm not quite sure I'd like it better than 
Konqueror unless it's a LOT faster (there are more than a few features of 
Konqueror that I use enough that a little slowness is a fair tradeoff), since 
I don't see any features off-hand in Krusader that aren't already in 
Konqueror (split views and terminals are available under the "Window" menu).

Then again, there could be features in Krusader that I didn't see in my 
cursory look at it.

>
> And if you enjoy eye candy (transparency+shadows), and have a fast video
> card, kde does integrade well with xorg's composite extension.  Nvidia's
> 8xxx series of drivers finally seems stable with composite active.

Transparency and shadows aren't something I enjoy so much; too often they seem 
to make the relevant parts of the display harder to read, and they use a lot 
of CPU and/or GPU power in the process.  Not a good trade-off for something 
that merely looks cool, if you ask me.

I like eye candy if it fits my visual sensibilities, it makes my desktop 
environment look better AND/OR work better (would this still be considered 
eye candy?), and it does NOT interfere with me getting my work done.  I have 
never met a transparency/shadow effect that satisfies all of those criteria.


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Lincoln Peters
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