On Tue 7 December 2004 18:11, Iain Dooley wrote: > KDE is an amazing desktop environment, but of the applications that i > use most, none of the packaged KDE programs are really the best of > breed. > > KOffice < OpenOffice I'll generally agree to that but the speed of KOfiice apps in opening is definitely a plus, especially when opening Word files on the internet. Plus OOo until very recently couldn't open WordPerfect files, which is inexcusable. Basically, I use both at the same time and trade files between them, or just use Kile :) > KMail < Thunderbird Let's see ... List reply, maildir support, built-in crypto support, extremely flexible filters, PIM integration (including to handhelds) and probably more still. > Konquerer < Firefox I would disagree. Certainly not in Fx's default state - one needs to install quite a few extensions before it offers anything resembling the default feature set of Konq, by which time its speed (especially launch speed) has been cut down quite a bit. > Noatun < Juk That's just silly since both are KDE apps. Now if you had said XMMS, that would be different (though even it is crippled by the filepicker and since it's used a lot that's quite serious). > Kopete < gaim Seems about the same to me but the integration with KDE is better with Kopete. I would love to see what the licq folks get up to though since that is one neat app. > > imagine what could be achieved if KDE, OpenOffice and the Mozilla > project joined forces... Unfortunately Mozilla has some kind of GNOME fetish going on so that's not too likely. Any QT ports will have to be done by KDE people, unlike all the other ports which are done by Mozilla people. OpenOffice.org however seems a little more receptive and I look forward to improvements in that direction. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: davidpjames@xxxxxxxxxx Noone isn't no one
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