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What non-kde4 apps are your standards - and why not use a kde4 app.?

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Dante Ashton
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oh, and Thunderbird; KMail is nice, certinatly, but Thunderbird now makes setup so EASY, and it has a damn good UI to boot!


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Chromium is the main one. I filed a bug report regarding it today:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue ... l?id=44455
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Firefox - simply the best browser
Thunderbird (w/Lightning) - performance, and almost a complete PIM
apt - Kpackagekit isn't worth the space it takes (adept is O.K. as a GUI package manager)
Mplayer - plays anything including internet radio streams, no problems, and use it with the Smplayer frontend, looks good
OO.o - KOffice might be there soon, but right now uh-uh


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Firefox - obvious reasons
Inkscape - Great for web-design, Krita more for drawing, not technical
GIMP - no real KDE replacement, would jump ship @ slightest breeze
GTK-Gnutella - Cannot find KDE P2P app for my "family photos"
VLC - Dragonplayer poorly handles several features compared to VLC, VLC is still Qt


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Aqualung replace for Amarok (I like version of Amarok for KDE3 but not the last one). Aqualung is super IMO.

Opera - the most secure browser (http://secunia.com)

GIMP - I don't know other application for Unix

Geeqie (fast and IMO very good image viewer)

OpenOffice - IMO KOffice is not ready yet.

Lyx

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1) Firefox (I prefer Konqueror, but it has nothing like flashblock)
2) Gimp
3) Qmpd (with kde3 I used amarok, but I don't like the kde4 version)
4) VirtualBox
5) Lyx
6) Yakuake
7) RSSOwl (but pheraphs I will return to Akregator)


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mcz01 wrote:6) Yakuake


Do you mean that you use the KDE 3 version of Yakuake? (Yakuake is a KDE app.)


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Firefox - I use Hotmail for my spam-heavy stuff, and that doesn't work in Rekonq.
Inkscape - Nothing comparable
GIMP - Nothing comparable
OpenOffice Writer - Kword is horribly broken
LyX - Nothing comparable
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hein wrote:
mcz01 wrote:6) Yakuake


Do you mean that you use the KDE 3 version of Yakuake? (Yakuake is a KDE app.)

I use yakuake for kde4 (from Aur for Archlinux). :)


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1) OO -- because koffice is not ready yet. If the spellcheck is working i will switch immediatly
2) filezilla -- i dont know a kde ftp client.except kftpgrabber the last time i tried it the crash bug was nt fixed. Sometimes i use konqueror for file transfer transactions
3) Clementine -- i dont like the new amarok, but i use juk too
4) VLC -- the only KDE application that i like is KPlayer but it is nt maintained
5) Mandriva control center -- i can do many settings in my system that i cant with systemsettings, the only problem is in GTK
6) simple-scan -- i dont know a KDE application to scan and make pdf files. With simple-scan (gnome) the predefined options are very satisfactory
7) GIMP -- because krita is not ready yet
8) Avidemux -- i dont know any KDE application to replace it
9) TVtime -- i loved kdetv but is no more maintained


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1. OpenOffice.org - Installed parts of KOffice (version 2.2.2 from Lucid-backports) yesterday but it does not seem ready for everyday use yet, the developers are doing a great job though.

2. Chromium - Previously used Firefox almost 24/7 up until my recent install of Kubuntu 10.04. Sporadic use Konqueror, to many sites not rendered correctly.

3. Synaptic - Have used KPackageKit more than I thought I would though.

4. VLC - Best in its class

5. Wine - To use Spotify

6. VirtualBox - To be able to start Windows, just in case...


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