Whenever you're dealing with a piece of software as large as a desktop, some features are going to be hard to find. To help new users get up and running, here are twelve tips for getting more out of KDE. Many are available from the KDE Control Center, a centralized configuration window with a daunting array of options, but others are located elsewhere.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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spikeb
4 years 32 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago
tip one: remove as many of the
tip one: remove as many of the damn buttons in every application as you can possibly stand.
mark
4 years 32 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago
Simplifying the menus would help
Simplifying the menus would help too. KDE's menus are a bit of pain to navigate - there are just so many items. (However the control center is a good start.) Kubuntu does a good job of cutting the menu items back but it removes too many features. There needs to be a middle ground.
I really like Symphony OS's approach, where the desktop is not the place for storing things but actually a menu navigation tool. But I don't think it'll catch on.
underthelinux
4 years 32 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago
Kubuntu has some serious problems
Kubuntu has some serious problems with menu management - i've found that when i start updating from the repos, and it adds the items to the menu automatically, i end up getting a Debian menu... which is where some additional or redundant apps are hidden. V. frustrating.