[Discuss] Gnome Shell

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

On 06/28/2012 07:40 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> In my own case, that means If I want to keep using these extensions, I
> will either have to maintain them myself or maybe switch to KDE.

Yeah, I recently switched back to KDE after a long hiatus.  I stopped
using KDE for a long time just because at first it was the red-headed
step child in Fedora.  But Gnome is too painful nowadays.  You need
plugins to make it usable, and maintaining plugins (in the end-user
sense of updating them all the time or finding new equivalents, not even
in a software development sense) is too obnoxious.

Here's a really old feature of KDE (been there for at least 12 years)
that was one of the primary reasons I kept it on my machines (I'm
sharing this as motivation to ditch gnome):  Konqueror
(the KDE webkit-based browser) is a man and info page viewer.

Put "man:pthread" or "man:signal" or "info:bash" in the address bar.
Far and away the only tolerable way I've found to navigate info pages.
But it also does nice stuff for man pages, in the the "see also" pages
are hyperlinks, it generates it's own disambiguation pages (try the
'signal' example), etc.

Matt