On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 05:57:46PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >I am shortly giving a talk on TDE. Any points that people particularly think >I should mention? In fact, any pointers? I am actually still using a version of Linux that is several years old, with KDE 3.5.10. But when I update, I will switch to TDE. For me, the most important advantage of TDE over KDE4 is the multiple virtual desktops. I use all 20 of them, for separated activities like Mail, Music, My Website, etc. In each one I have multiple konsoles with mc running in them pointed to directories specific to the activity, Firefox pages, and other program windows. The great advantage is that the screen and taskbar only show the programs in each particular virtual desktop, so they are much less cluttered. I can leave the programs running and visible all the time, since they take little RAM, and no CPU cycles, when I'm not using them. But when I want to do something, like listen to a tune, I just click the Music button in the little desktop-pager (switcher) applet that's in the panel at the bottom of all the desktops, and I'm instantly in the Music desktop with several ways of selecting what I want, already set up. This is a wonderful facility for making the computer an extension of my mind! KDE4 has sabotaged it, because the desktop names are not visible in the pager applet. They are obscured by outlines of all the windows in each desktop, and these cannot be removed. Also I don't like the way KDE4 does things like adjusting the size of the panels. And I never figured out what the stupid "cashews" do. They have changed things just for the sake of changing them, and made them worse, not better. Mark http://cosmicpenguin.com