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There are a few Gnome features that I think KDE can borrow from in the near future:
For starters Gnome has the force quit applet that one can use to force apps to quit without opening a task manager.
Currently the only real way to do this is to create a link to x-kill in KDE3 and 4, KDE4 could benefit from something like this.
Another app I would like to see cloned is the deskbar applet, quite useful under gnome.
And maybe something like Ubuntu's ubuntu tweak or Gnomes config editor, where we can add more options to our desktop...
Adding a trashcan on the desktop, showing mounted media, links to important places such as home.
I know this one can be done with a series of plasmoids, but a lot of people seem to dislike the idea of plasmoids on the desktop.
Gnome offers a nice clean desktop and can be optimized to have desktop icons for drives and such.
KDE4 needs something similar, the media mount plasmoid is fair but I think the old style desktop icon for mounted drives is better and more intuitive.

Good collection of ideas and thank you for your submission, however the Brainstorm requires one idea per thread. Please repost them seperately.

bcooksley wrote:Good collection of ideas and thank you for your submission, however the Brainstorm requires one idea per thread. Please repost them seperately.

I just thought I would bundle them as I had a whole collection of ideas, would have thought that would be preferable to three posts at the same time.
I will break them down, no sweat.
But I thought by putting them under one category as they are all about gnome features would work.

Yes, I know this one was marked as invalid. I just needed to give my input anyway

Sunny Rabbiera wrote:Another app I would like to see cloned is the deskbar applet, quite useful under gnome.

Which is doing what, exactly? I haven't used gnome in ages...

Sunny Rabbiera wrote:Adding a trashcan on the desktop, showing mounted media, links to important places such as home.
I know this one can be done with a series of plasmoids, but a lot of people seem to dislike the idea of plasmoids on the desktop.

Personally, I think that's something that's up to the distro to decide. What the desktop (whether gnome, kde, or something else) should show by default I mean (and I for one think the trashcan belongs in a panel...that way I have always access to it without having to minimize things or switch to a different desktop).

Sunny Rabbiera wrote:KDE4 needs something similar, the media mount plasmoid is fair but I think the old style desktop icon for mounted drives is better and more intuitive.

That I agree with. I'm usually allergic to desktop-icons, but as far as removable media goes it's very intuitive.

Kryten2X4B wrote:Yes, I know this one was marked as invalid. I just needed to give my input anyway

Sunny Rabbiera wrote:Another app I would like to see cloned is the deskbar applet, quite useful under gnome.

Which is doing what, exactly? I haven't used gnome in ages...

I think that deskbar is similar to KDE4 run command plasmoid.
But I'm not sure which is more powerful.
I haven't use Gnome in ages myself.