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paralax

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-05-26

Posts: 51

Help my build KDE desktop

Hi,

I've just installed KDEmod and now I really love my desktop, but I don't know QT applications so I need help.
Heres a list of what I need:

Image viewer - ? (now I have mirage but It's maybe too simple and it's GTK)
Image editor - GIMP - there is no other option am I right?
PDF viewer - ?
IRC - ? (now I have irssi and it's good but I'm wondering if there is something for KDE)
Text editor - ?
Can you recommend me any other useful apps?

Thx for help.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Help my build KDE desktop

Image viewer- gwenview or kview
Pdf viewer - KPDF
IRC and other chatting needs - Kopete
Text editor - Kate

music player and manager - amarok
burning discs - k3b
torrent - ktorrent
download manager - kget

game - Wesnoth

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ScriptDevil

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From: In Front of My PC

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 253

Re: Help my build KDE desktop

Okular is brilliant. KDE4's best app imho.

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abhidg

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From: City of Kol

Registered: 2006-07-01

Posts: 184

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Re: Help my build KDE desktop

Image editor - krita (part of koffice)
Office - koffice
See your disk usage -- filelight
Lightweight video player -- codeine
Lightweight music player -- juk
Tex/Latex editor -- kile
IRC -- konversation
lightweight jabber client -- psi

paralax

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-05-26

Posts: 51

Re: Help my build KDE desktop

Image viewer- gwenview or kview

game - Wesnoth

Kview is perfect for me, thx for advice.
Wesnoth is superb!

Office - koffice

how well does koffice handle MS formats?

Last edited by paralax (2008-05-24 14:03:41)

11010010110

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Registered: 2008-01-14

Posts: 284

Re: Help my build KDE desktop

Image viewer - kuickshow (part of kdegraphics)

Image editor - kolourpaint (part of kdegraphics)

IRC - use a console based client. Add an irc profile to konsole (that will auto start the client) and customize it to look cool

Text editor - kwrite

Music - noatun (part of kdemultimedia)

Video - kaffeine

Disk use - kdiskfree (run kdf from alt F2) and konqueror file size view mode

Stuff i do as soon as i install new KDE

Configure switching desktops with the mouse thru the edges of the screen
control center - desktop - window behavior - advanced - active desktop borders

Configure mouse motions as application control (similar to keyboard shortcuts)
control center - regional and accessibility - input actions

Set the music player to be allways on top
alt F3 in player window - advanced - special window settings

Go thru the entire look and feel section

Hide the menu in konqueror and save it in all the view profiles

Remove all menus / toolbars / status bars from kopete chat and friend list windows