Firefox: it's simply unreplaceable;
OO.o: KOffice isn't good enough;
Kaffeine: Dragon player sucks;
Amarok 1.4: Amarok 2 wasn't released yet;
KNetworkManager: KDE 4 doesn't have a substitute for it;
Konversation: the BEST IRC client ever and;
KDE 3 itself - sometimes: becuase of the well-known problems with KDE 4 and nVidia.

kde3-konq-standard file browser.
konsole kde3,v. -best terminal app
kaffeine- try 2 start 2use it,if it dosent work the its vlc,mplayer and totem,often in that order.
amarok-kde3 version. -the best musicplayer there is, if not amarok then songbird
akregator kde3version -yeah its still the best news reader,sorry 2 say it has some important pros to akreg.kde4 version:/

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Firefox and opera -well konq. is good for some stuff but it is not a firefox or an opera as the are so wastly more powerfull and feture rich, but as a compliment konq. is just fine.

Synaptic +aptitude -well it is the best general package manger and the most powerfull one..

Thunderbird -well its powerfull and its goodloking and so on its simply the best e-mail client there is at any os!

pidgin -well i use kopete before but now i find pidigin 2 be a litle bit better, havent tried the kde4 versions of kopete yeat..

tv-browser - well its the best tv-program listing app that i ve found, but not perfect as it is a java app and craches but whitstanding that it is the best one..

well thats the standard apps, but i have tons and tons of other apps:P choise ftw:P

of_darkness wrote:konsole kde3,v. -best terminal app

I just start typing when I use a console. What features are missing in the KDE 4 version?

JackieBrown wrote:

of_darkness wrote:konsole kde3,v. -best terminal app

I just start typing when I use a console. What features are missing in the KDE 4 version?

well the new tab button is missing on tabbar,gewneral settings menu is missing and in general it looks terrible 2 mouch of the big kde4 buttons and bad guifications:/

Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, Synaptic, Wine

of_darkness wrote:
well the new tab button is missing on tabbar,

Edit current profile->Select the tabs tab->Check "Show new tab and close tab buttons in tab bar"->OK.

Done.

Firefox

There is only one application that always forces me to install GNOME libraries, and that is GLabels. I print batches of labels a lot more than I'd like to, but GLabels makes it nice and easy, and the results are perfect every time. I haven't found anything in KDE that does labels quite so well.

Louis wrote:There is only one application that always forces me to install GNOME libraries, and that is GLabels. I print batches of labels a lot more than I'd like to, but GLabels makes it nice and easy, and the results are perfect every time. I haven't found anything in KDE that does labels quite so well.

(Just searched Google, I've never used it before, don't know if you have... but...)

Have you tried KBarcode?

jrick,

Yep, I've tried it. My biggest gripe with it is the UI. It is very dated and doesn't scale, so it's very hard to use on my hires monitor. I've also had problems with the output not lining up, and the fonts just don't seem to print as smoothly. I invite you to try them both for yourself. Use a spreadsheet full of addresses as a source, and try a batch print from both apps. You will see exactly what I'm talking about.

Louis wrote:There is only one application that always forces me to install GNOME libraries, and that is GLabels. I print batches of labels a lot more than I'd like to, but GLabels makes it nice and easy, and the results are perfect every time. I haven't found anything in KDE that does labels quite so well.

How about in Qt then?

http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/qLa ... tent=56998

Haven't tried it but, agree on Kbarcode vs Glabel. There really is no contest.

Firefox is great but it needs too much Gnome libs for me.

aptitude - no need for a GUI
Firefox - stability, compatibility, extensions and support
OOo - KOffice still has some way to go
Thunderbird - the only mail client I never had any issues with
Skype - pretty much the standard now
VLC - plays everything
wine - for the occasional win app
Document Viewer (evince) - better performance
Audacious - all the features I need
Archive Manager (file-roller) - when i need a GUI; never really came to terms with Ark

Firefox, Songbird, VLC.

inkscape
blender
aTerm (konsole eat too much ressources and I use a tiled WM so many light term is better than 1 big)
firefox
scribus (QT4-dev)
AwesomeWM (Kwin does not have tiled layout yet, but it is planed )
XMMS (ok, ok it is getting old, but it -work-)
SSH
Thunar File manager (Dolphin is not stable on my gentoo + KDE trunk daily)
Konqueror3, same reason than thunar, I use it for smb://, fish://, ftp:// and few other more advanced feature (services menu included).
Mplayer/mencoder (simply faster and more complete than dragon)
xPdf (Okular is not stable and crash sometime withour creating backtrace...)