On Tuesday 14 April 2009 08:56:51 Roy Wright wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 02:19:47 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Paul Hartman > >> > >> <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> The only app I am really disappointed with is Amarok 2. > > Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't get Amarok 2... > > Personally the change over to dolphin is disappointing. So far I've > been able to mostly ignore it and use konqueror with one major > exception, fish and sftp no longer work in konqueror. Only sftp works > in dolphin. In the past (3.x), I always found fish to be bulletproof > while sftp occasionally would flake.
I don't like dolphin either, it reminds me too much of Nautilus. But konqueror is showing it's age, and as a browser it's now almost useless. It's JavaScript is horribly broken and using flash is just too painful to contemplate. > A minor gripe with Konsole is it not remembering the "Show in Menu" > setting for profiles. Makes working with several custom profiles a pain. > > On using the plasmoids on the desktop, dock the "Show Plasmoids Desktop" > plasmoid. Basically one click and you have access to all your > plasmoids. Almost as good as the mac... I've had various "Uncover the Desktop" button/widget/plasmoids on my taskbar permanently for at least 10 years now. Trouble is, I never ever use it in real life :-) > One trick that I do with the plasmoids is place the CPU monitor on the > right edge of my screen, then when I place windows I leave about a half > inch uncovered on the right so I can see the most recent processor load. gkrellm is *excellent* at that, plus it's very frugal with it's screen real estate. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
