I’m running the Alioth KDE 3.4.0 preview packages. I rebuilt (IA32-SSE binary) konsole 3.4.0 to enable Composite alpha blending. I really like it so far. There are a few nifty tooltip-transition effects and kdict integration, etc. that I find pretty neat. I’m still discovering new things about it, though—I tend to use desktop environments rather sparingly.
I ended up enabling the “Universal Sidebar” and setting it to autohide. Currently I’m using it as an RSS feed reader and a web search box. I might find new uses for it as time goes on.
I noticed that Konqueror is capable of prefix searches for filenames—rapidly type in the name of whatever you’re trying to select and it’ll do a prefix match. Type slower and it is only able to select the first letter. I hadn’t noticed that it’d already been implemented—this feature had been on my wishlist for a while.
Whoa, when did kpdf gain the ability to show bookmarks? Still, it chokes on the 400+ page documents that I typically reference. Adobe Reader 7 beta isn’t leaving my desktop any time soon.
Anyway, I feel that I’ve been underusing my DE resources, so I intend to try to get the most out of KDE when it isn’t more efficient to use the command line.
