KDE: Things I miss from Gnome

sud_crow · 2006-08-21 22:31:02

I have been using KDE for a while now, around 2/3 weeks, and I have found several things I like about it above Gnome, but I'm also missing quite a few, I wanted to list and share them in case someone could point to a solution, or just comment his/her own griefs

* GTK apps file menus and other parts look ... bad, real bad (i do have gtk-qt-engine installed, anyway, they don't behave like KDE open file dialogs).

* The integration that allowed Nautilus to burn CDs/DVDs without much hassle.

* Gnome automounted (and detected) cds and usb, KDE for some reason doesn't (although i haven't checked why yet).

* Azureus GUI is kind of broken (no more green-yellow-red faces, they are all grey, even when working)

I'm looking on how to fix the GTK/Qt thing, I think I found a couple of possible solutions, although they are not as easy as i would like, maybe later i will look for the automount issue...

funkyou · 2006-08-21 22:53:53

1 - You can not change a GTK file dialog to a KDE file dialog, except for some apps by using this hack: KGTK ... You can also install a widget theme with better GTK support like QTcurve

2 - You can burn CDs in konqueror with this extension. You need to have k3b installed for this.

3 - Do you have the HAL daemon running?

4 - Instead of using Azureus, why not try KTorrent. Its a very fast and good application.

sud_crow · 2006-08-22 02:44:34

Hi, thanks for the reply:

1) I have found something Im checking:
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/ … /main.html

Although it implies patching the programs, it seems something real nice if it works.

2) Thanks for that, i already installed it from AUR, will be trying it later!

3) I didnt, i do now. Still have to check a little how it works, but it seems to be mounting the CDs ok after following the Wiki entry about disabling the optical drives in /etc/fstab

4) I like Azureus features, im very dependant on them and I dont think any other program has them... I have already tryed KTorrent, Transmission, Bittorrent, and a couple others...

Thanks again for your reply.

ps.
* Another thing i miss from Gnome Terminal is the CTRL+(Back-arrow or Forth-arrow), to move beatween words... Konsole just prints a "5D" every time i press them.

brazzmonkey · 2006-08-22 08:10:21

1) i use gtk-qt-engine with qtcurve theme and gtk-them-switch. with this combination every program GUI has the same look and feel on my KDE desktop.
3) for automounting to work, you need hal and dbus.

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KDE: Things I miss from Gnome

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Re: KDE: Things I miss from Gnome

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Re: KDE: Things I miss from Gnome

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Re: KDE: Things I miss from Gnome

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