So I was at BestBuy this week with a co-worker looking for Xboxes for a friend’s wedding present.
While I was waiting for the pimply teenager to scurry to the back I was looking around and I was reminded that at some point I was going to get a wireless mouse for my laptop.
There were a few options, but I didn’t really like any of what I saw. In fact, I wouldn’t have even really been seriously looking except for the fact that my USB corded mouse had just succum to death by electric shock a few days ago and I have been suffering with the built in touch pad every since.
In anycase, I picked up the Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000. I had some difficulties getting it working at first, and I still don’t have the Tilt Wheel working, but all of the other buttons work. I do have to load up usbmouse and plug it in before psmouse, but since it’s got a wireless dongle thing this isn’t too hard to remember.
The jury is still out on whether I like it or not.
I have been using KDE 3.5.1 for around 2 months now and am quite impressed. It is not the end all – fix all desktop. Infact there are quite a few things that are more difficult to do in KDE. I like this though. Most things default to a reasonable functionality. If I do not like this, I am free to change it. There are quite a few more advanced applications for KDE too.I think the only GNOME applications that I continue to use are Evolution, Inkscape and GIMP.
Firefox is technically a GTK app, and I continue to use it sometimes as Konquerer does not work on all websites.
I am using Kmail for my personal email, and evolution for my work email. Why? Because I love offline imap, it’s the best of both worlds however IMAP in evolution was SLOW. Kmail leaves quite a bit to be desired as far as UI compared to Evolution, but I have yet to find any missing features.
I am really looking forward to KDE 4. I am hoping a few of the most annoying things about KDE will be resolved, as well as some more polish.
