I myself don't see it as "minimal fuss", not least because KDE makes so
many choices for me in its "feature richness" that I have to spend two
hours (I'm being kind) finding all the bloody options that I don't want
and change them or turn them off or whatever.
Sorry, I simply can't understand what are you talking about:
suppose I don't *want* my file manager integrated with my
browser (didn't want it in Windows, don't want it now).
Where's the problem? I use Firefox as a browser and Konqueror as a file
manager.
I don't *want*
to figure out how to tell KMix not to override my Alsa mixer settings,
Disable it. Do not install it.
and I don't want to have to decide whether I want drive icons but not
application icons (or no icons at all) on my desktop, and then tell KDE
my decision.
I can't even understand what do you mean here. If you don't want icons,
don't put them on the desktop. It's that simple. You have to do
*nothing* to avoid icons on your desktop!
I don't want to name my desktops, or put a separate
wallpaper on each one.
Nor I want, nor KDE ever forced me to do it.
I have no interest in going through 6 tabs to
specify Window Behaviour (I'm looking at the KDE Control Center right
now).
Ok, that's a good point. However that 6 tabs are more probably than not
a wrapper to a plain text config file, that you can configure with your
favourite editor all at once.
And I certainly don't care to be bothered with the problem of how
to make KDE play nice with my GTK apps (I do have some GTK 1 apps, which
are much more problematic than GTK 2 apps in this respect) simply
because I might happen to want to use some program whose name doesn't
bloody start with "K".
What do you mean by "play nice"? I use a lot of GTK apps (both 1 and 2)
and they work perfectly fine here without any fuss.
I have several K-apps installed that
I actually don't want, because the K-app I do use (Krusader) won't open
files from within an archive using GTK apps like eye of gnome or Open
Office. karc can't pass the file to these apps.... but it works fine
with KView or KWord. Because K apps like other K apps. That makes
perfect sense, since it's all supposed to be an integrated environment,
but to me it feels like a prison.
I understand what you mean here, that's something that I hate too. It's
because other apps don't understand kioslaves.
I think kioslaves are the best thing after sliced bread. Typing simply
"smb:/" to access a Samba share, or "ftp:/" for accessing transparently
FTP filesystems, or "zip:/" for what's in a compressed archive is
wonderful. I think other apps should work on compatibility about this.
It's simply a good idea.
But I simply don't like DEs. If I'm going to spend time fine-tuning my
desktop, I want exactly what I want, exactly the way I like it, not "as
close to how I like it as the DE supports". That's why I use
"build-it-yourself" WMs like OB3 and FVWM.
I can't see why a WM can be more "exactly what you want" than a DE.
Each to his own taste, and if your taste is KDE, then more power to you.
I accept that it's very good for what it is. I just don't happen to like
what it is.
Oh, this is clear :)
m.
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