Why I moved to Gnome
I’ve been a KDE user basically since I started using Linux. The Qt toolkit’s default theme was much more visually appealing than GTK+, KDE’s purple and silver (remember back when there was no blue to speak of in Kubuntu?) was a nicer mix than Ubuntu’s orange and brown, and the KDE apps were pretty awesome. Despite this, I’m now sitting here in front of a clean Ubuntu Intrepid install.
LacKing in appliKations
Even while I was a KDE user, I was frustrated by the apps that Kubuntu came with. Amarok was awesome, to be sure. K3B was pretty darn awesome. And KDE’s plasmoids are a ton better than Gnome’s Screenlets. But that’s about the limit. Pidgin’s interface was so much more clean than Kopete’s. Strigi made 10GB indexes of my 80GB hard drive. Konqueror was lousy at loading webpages. KDE email notifiers drove me crazy (I resorted to CheckGmail). And even the highly-touted KOffice paled in comparison to OpenOffice.org’s friendly (albeit slightly foreign) interface.
Of course, most would ask why I didn’t just use Gnome apps in KDE. It might just be me, but it seemed to that Gnome apps are quite unstable in KDE. Pidgin would routinely crash (though that could have been the fact that I usually run a lot of plugins with it) and CheckGmail would periodically fail. Additionally, Gnome apps look horrible in KDE. Pidgin always had incorrect tray sizes, so it always had an enormous tray icon compared to normal KDE apps. And apps like HandBrake look repulsive in the K Desktop Environment.
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