On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> But now it seems everything is upside down. KDE is >> visually more entertaining, but they changed the file manager which >> I do not like, and I could not find a real advantage over Gnome. > > That is true. So far I have not found any real advantages of > KDE 4.2 over Gnome 2.2x other than visual appeal. But > to me that is something new. ;-) So at least I would give > it a try. I do not like Dolphin. I do not like Konqueror either... > Actually I prefer pcmanfm or nautilus under KDE... > I was playing with Arch for the past few days and came back to KDE and felt like my KDE 4.2.2 experiment would end very soon. The startup is slow. The logout is slow. Initially it was more smooth under Fedora, now KDE 4.2 behaves the same under Fedora and Ubuntu. Worst is that console-helper hangs under KDE for Fedora and Google does not tell me the answer... Anyway, I would still give it a try... -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist