<p dir="ltr">I consider KDE to be a "better gnome than gnome" these days. Unity is a mess, imo, and KDE gives me a more gnome 2 experience.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There are things I don't like about it but those are easily ignored. I switched about 2 years ago and haven't looked back. (I had tried and given up on KDE several times in the past too.) </p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks<br>
-Ben</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 25, 2013 3:45 AM, "William Park" <<a href="mailto:opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA@public.gmane.org">opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 02:40:06PM +0000, Matt Price wrote:<br>
> So, after a certain amount of work I have arch Linux installed on my new<br>
> laptop. I thought I would give KDE a try, so installed the kde-meta package<br>
> and booted up smoothly into KDE. It is so ugly! And its not at all obvious<br>
> to me how to do most basic things. Has anyone made the switch from unity or<br>
> gnome, and do you like it, and can you recommend some resources former<br>
> beginners? I've been using Linux for a decade so don't need intros to<br>
> basics, but the GUI really baffled me .l- I feel like my mother confronted<br>
> with a new tablet. Never thought that would happen to me...<br>
<br>
I'm running Slackware-14 and KDE-4.8.5. Get rid of those funny icons<br>
and menu that they put on your desktop initially. Use the "taskbar" at<br>
the bottom. KDE icon is where Windows icon is and works like it. When<br>
KDE menu pops up, you'll see "Favourites", "Applications", "Computer",<br>
"Last Used", and "Leave". Of course, you'll be using "Favourites" most<br>
of the time.<br>
<br>
The menu is somewhat unusual. It's not tiling or overlapping. Instead,<br>
where you are in the menu tree is shown at the top, like "directory".<br>
The menu window itself is too small, so you get lost after few scrolls.<br>
That's why you use "Favourites" section.<br>
--<br>
William<br>
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