User talk:Interbird

To all KDE people great and small,

I was a Gnome user and have been for the past 10 years or so. In all that time I also looked at KDE, but it never appealed to me. At least, not in a way making me want to switch. And of course, the longer I used Gnome, the less I was interested in switching my work-environment.

That was until recently.

There seems to be a force that drives developers of user-interfaces towards the mobile interface paradigm, even for desktop users. One good example is the new Unity interface of Ubuntu and another it the way Gnome3 is heading.

While these interfaces may work fine for novice users, they take away almost all productivity from more advanced users, let alone developers. So, being a power-user and developer myself, I was looking for a way out of this 'dumbing-down' madness.

So I decided to have a try at KDE again and downloaded a copy of Kubuntu.

Now, I like bling-bling, but I'm looking for functionality to get my work done. As it turns out, KDE has the ultimate innovation in the user-interface paradigm.

It's called: "Activities".

Instead of 'dumbing-down' the gui experience, like Gnome3 and Unity do, KDE gives you a choise ! Using the normal "Desktop" activity, one feels right at home with the added nicety that files on the Desktop folder are relegated to a widget. When using the "Search and Launch" activity, one has a mobile gui-interface that can hold it's own with regard to Unity or Gnome3.

The best of all is that activities can be started and stopped, even remembering the running applications !

If there ever was a Desktop with a true promise, encapsulating the 'mobile-brigade' and still satisfying power-users and developers in the same breath; it's KDE !

The concept of "Activities" is a true innovation on gui-interfacing and non of the others, including OSX and Win7 can currently measure-up to it. I could have them all as an 'Activity' under KDE :-)

I need to express my admiration to the KDE developers, who besides having code-skills, also seem to posess a great deal of vision. I'm very, very impressed with KDE and the way it's going. Kudo's !

This concept of "Activities" has the potential to satisfy every user; my Mom and maybe even Linus. (Yes Linus, you should give KDE a second look if you really ditched Gnome for XFCE)

Bye bye Gnome, Hello KDE !

 Ben from Holland.