Are you a picker or a sticker?
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:07 am
Terrible title, I know. I was listening to LUGRadio last night and their discussion about Distro's adding specific tweak to enhance the experience between their Desktop and Server versions and similar technologies and whether this is a good thing. While I find the question very interesting, I'm not going to weigh my opinion on that here. Perhaps that is better off in the LUGRadio forum thread:
http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3861
Anyway, what I was curious about is whether people tend to stick with a specific flavor of applications. For instance, do you use all gtk based apps or all qt or do you mix and match? If you use KDE, do you stick with the KDE suit of apps or do you run rhythmbox and/or gthumb instead of amarok and digikam?
I run a mixed bag personally and have, in most cases, not completely settled on a final choice in the long run. While I prefer fluxbox, windowmaker and gnome, I find it difficult to settle strictly on the gtk offerings for some applications. Hands down, I think Konqueror beats the pants off most file managers. I also prefer amarok as a music collection application at work, but as I don't use my systems at home to play music like at work, I find myself using beep media player more than anything; except for the intro and closing of the tllts where I use rhythmbox because that is where the playlists are and was the easiest to just drag and drop for me.
For an image manipulation program the Gimp wins it for me hands down and I prefer inkscape for vector. My text editor of choice is jedit which is java based.
I've not been turned off at all by cosmetic differences in the display of applications from different tool kits. I do wish, however, a bit more effort was put into populating the window manager or DE menu properly with applications generally outside the included apps for said DE or WM. For instance, I've noticed some qt apps do not get placed in their proper categories in the gnome menu under ubuntu and end up under the other category. Ah, but that is just nitpicky!
http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3861
Anyway, what I was curious about is whether people tend to stick with a specific flavor of applications. For instance, do you use all gtk based apps or all qt or do you mix and match? If you use KDE, do you stick with the KDE suit of apps or do you run rhythmbox and/or gthumb instead of amarok and digikam?
I run a mixed bag personally and have, in most cases, not completely settled on a final choice in the long run. While I prefer fluxbox, windowmaker and gnome, I find it difficult to settle strictly on the gtk offerings for some applications. Hands down, I think Konqueror beats the pants off most file managers. I also prefer amarok as a music collection application at work, but as I don't use my systems at home to play music like at work, I find myself using beep media player more than anything; except for the intro and closing of the tllts where I use rhythmbox because that is where the playlists are and was the easiest to just drag and drop for me.
For an image manipulation program the Gimp wins it for me hands down and I prefer inkscape for vector. My text editor of choice is jedit which is java based.
I've not been turned off at all by cosmetic differences in the display of applications from different tool kits. I do wish, however, a bit more effort was put into populating the window manager or DE menu properly with applications generally outside the included apps for said DE or WM. For instance, I've noticed some qt apps do not get placed in their proper categories in the gnome menu under ubuntu and end up under the other category. Ah, but that is just nitpicky!