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KDE 4.0.0

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KDE 4.0.0 is available!

http://www.kde.org/screenshots/

Anyone going to install it? I'm going to as soon as I get a little spare time. I'll have to compile it myself as Fedora won't be making it available for my version:(
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I'll wait until it's available for Ubuntu generally.

I will install a version on something less fundamental to my daily working space. It looks like a great release which will bust some more pounds off Gnome. But will it beat Mac OS? Hmmm.
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I have always preferred the look of gnome over KDE. Theres something comfortable about gnome to me where as KDE always looks sort of, unfinished...
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Gnome just never really clicked for me. I can never find things where I expect them.
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Still waiting for a decent file manager... for anything. Sadly, Windows Explorer is the best yet... Finder a close second. Why do all the linux options suck so bad?
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Well I have found that you really don't need a file manager when you're well versed at using the command line.
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When the hell are we going to get our database filesystem?

I'm sick of waiting. It's the future already, damnit. I mean it already 2008, I have a kick ass computer in my pocket, I can travel anywhere in the world in a matter of hours (and so can anyone), I can even buy a flying car in my living room on the damn information superhighway.

Is a DBFS really sooooooo hard? Seriously?

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Hell you could probably write a shell script and have it run on a cron job that would index the filesystem and throw it in a mysql database. There's your dbfs. Google was nice enough to create the desktop search program. I don't think you'll have anything better than that even with the dbfs because google isn't giving up any secrets.

To add to your file manager comment, check out rsync for Linux.. http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync.html
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kde4 has strigi built-in + nepomuk for adding metadata and comments to files and rate them

kde4.0 is a great release, but is missing many features like panel configuration (will be in 4.1), icons on desktop (you can't select them etc.)

Can't wait for 4.1 :D
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In my never ending quest to find a better file manager for linux, I've discovered thunar... and It's the best I've seen by far! Although it's for xfce, it runs perfectly in Gnome. I've made it my default via this script (reversable).

I feel soooo much better now. And it feels so much faster! Go thunar!

Also, I kind of love the bulk renamer.
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so whats wrong with dolphin?
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What do you like about Thunar? Sell it to me. I have never heard of it before.
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It does everything a file manager should do - and nothing it shouldn't. It has icon, list and compact views - an optional sidebar with useful places in it, either a button or text path bar. Interacting with icons just feels right, there aren't as many little surprises as there were with Nautilus. Also, the best multiple file renamer I've seen comes bundled. It's a testament to design by reduction.

It doesn't take over your window with 20 different panes describing everything about every media type. It doesn't throb. It doesn't lock while generating giant thumbnails.

Above all, it's fast - way faster than everything else. I never felt like nautilus was that slow until using thunar, but now it sure does. And it doesn't get in the way! Even installed as the default, any of the special functions of nautilus (like the CD burner) just launch in nautilus. It's that simple.

Try it! You can revert in two seconds if you don't like it.
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Sounds pretty cool I'll give it a go.
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