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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Which is your favourite desktop? Post 302796327 by bakunin on Friday 19th of April 2013 08:39:35 AM

04-19-2013

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Originally Posted by Corona688

I dislike the trend of becoming more dependent on the GUI when there was no need. I also dislike the trend where KDE and the like keep incorporating Windows features everyone hates the most just to make it "familiar" instead of extending on features we want. I'd rather have tab completion for filenames than autocomplete -- tab complete at least waits to be asked before filling in a garbage wrong guess.

Worse, they're becoming the only way some bits of hardware can be used. Like bluetooth. They had excellent commandline support for it then gutted it and left it to rot. How're you supposed to automate that? Why should you need a working X server to use a bluetooth keyboard?

+1 from my side! You put very well what i was thinking the last years.

I myself use mwm (Motif Window Manager) without any "desktop" or fvwm configured to look like mwm, but i prefer mwm because it can be so simply configured. fvwm typically has a 50k-configuration file with hundreds and thousands of options.

IMHO mwm has the most elegant appearance of them all. The overwhelming majority of my windows are xterms and Mozilla sessions and the only "menu" i need is the one i get when i right-click the root window. In this menu i have several xterm-entries in different colours for the various tasks (for instance root-windows have a different colour scheme so they stand out from non-root windows).

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kded4

KDED4(8)							 KDE User's Manual							  KDED4(8)

NAME

       kded4 - KDE daemon - triggers Sycoca database updates when needed.

SYNOPSIS

       kded4 [--help] [Generic options] [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [--check]

DESCRIPTION

	kded4 is responsible for creating the sycoca file, i.e. the binary cache of servicetypes, mimetypes, and services for a particular user.

       It monitors the directories containing .desktop files. When a file is added/removed, it waits 5 seconds (in case of series of updates), and
       then launches kbuildsycoca.

GENERIC OPTIONS

       --author
	      Show author information.

       --help Show help about options.

       --help-all
	      Show all options.

       --help-kde
	      Show KDE specific options.

       --help-qt
	      Show Qt specific options.

       --license
	      Show license information.

       -v --version
	      Show version information

APPLICATION OPTIONS

       --check
	      Check Sycoca database only once.

USAGE

       If kded4 is called without parameters and is already running, it shows the message:

	      KDE Daemon (kded) already running.

       If kded4 is called with kded4 --check, then it updates the KDE sycoca using kbuildsycoca.

SEE ALSO

       kdeoptions(7), qtoptions(7), kbuildsycoca(8)

BUGS

       There are probably tons of bugs. Use bugs.kde.org: http://bugs.kde.org to report them.

AUTHORS

       David Faure <faure@kde.org>, Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>.

								    2008-11-12								  KDED4(8)