https://blog.thameera.com Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:25:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.12 139676693 https://blog.thameera.com/the-kewl-desktop-environment-kde/ https://blog.thameera.com/the-kewl-desktop-environment-kde/#respond thameera Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:25:51 +0000 Uncategorized gnome kde linux lxde ubuntu http://thameera.wordpress.com/?p=402 So I wanted to get some first hand experience on KDE. To install KDE in Ubuntu what you need is to install the kde-desktop (or  kde-netbook in my case) package from the repos. Once installed, log out and choose KDE before logging in. KDE is the sex! There’s absolutely nothing so beautiful like it! Due…<p><a class="more-link" href="https://blog.thameera.com/the-kewl-desktop-environment-kde/" title="Continue reading ‘The Kewl desktop environment – KDE’">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> <p>So I wanted to get some first hand experience on KDE. To install KDE in Ubuntu what you need is to install the kde-desktop (or  kde-netbook in my case) package from the repos. Once installed, log out and choose KDE before logging in.</p> <p>KDE is the sex! There’s absolutely nothing so beautiful like it! Due to the restrictions in my netbook most of the effects won’t work for me, but still it looks marvelous. Sad to find that it’s being underrated in the FOSS world.</p> <p style="text-align:center"><img alt="KDE desktop in my netbook" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-403" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" height="410" src="https://blog.thameera.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/kde.png" title="kde" width="700"/></p> <p>KDE’s however not so sweet with resources. The environment is heavy, perhaps even heavier than gnome. But I can’t make up my mind to leave it and go back to LXDE. The performance loss is quite worth the sacrifice, if you ask me.</p> https://blog.thameera.com/the-kewl-desktop-environment-kde/feed/ 0 402