KDE
The gnome-pilot kit has driven me to give KDE another shot. Because either you leave that FPOS installed and it grabs the device whenever you try to sync, or you remove it and either take ubuntu-desktop with it or never update the system again.
I mean, who the hell does QA on this thing? It works some of the time. Sometimes the crash is in Evolution or the conduits rather than gpilotd itself getting stuck, but really. It is so far from being usable it isn’t funny. JPilot Just Works.
So far KPilot doesn’t work for me, it crashes when it tries to find the device, but at least it kindly fucks off when I do not explicitly ask for it.
I’ve found KDE apps to be a little crash-happy so far tonight. Kopete doesn’t like MSN. Known bug but with a fix that should go into the repo some time soonish. KPilot crashed trying to find my T|X. Amarok still can’t handle my music collection — the collection scanner stops dead at 5% of the way through — but at least the DAAP support works so it probably doesn’t really matter much anyway.
Konqueror is both excellent and an FPOS. I really love that they thought to include an accessibility stylesheet with a GUI to tweak it, I hate that textareas aren’t being handled properly with my large font.
Dunno how I feel about Dolphin. Will give it some time.
After moving the panel to the top of the screen and fiddling with fonts/colours/widget sets/etc I’m reasonably happy with what I have, though I see that by default Gtk+ apps don’t pick up the KDE font selections. Seems a rather odd default.
No Compiz as yet, I want to figure out how to make that happen so I can have my pretty zoomy swishy effects while waiting for KDE4.
But so far so good.
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