Kubuntu User now

Been on Kubuntu for about a week or so. I've fell in love with it...
Thing is I know little of KDE.
Can anyone give me some tips on special tricks to do?
Theming too would be appreciated.

 

I'm back to ubuntu after using kubuntu for 2 weeks.
I can't remember how now, I think it's under KDE menu -> System Settings or something like that, then under appearance you can select different themes and button styles.
I love kubuntu, but I keep going back and forth between it and ubuntu.
I know that it's not relevant to your question, but just saying my opinions. As a hobbyest programmer, I definitely prefer kate/kwrite over gedit, but I prefer gnome to kde. It seems better organized, more streamlined to me, but that's just my personal opinion.
I also prefer kopete over pidgin for my instant messaging needs.
Still, I keep going back to kubuntu, can't shake it off.

 

Tried that...cant put any themes from KDE-look.org on there.

 

Ok, I only used the default themes, I don't know how to add more, sorry.

 

Change the menu first off then install Superkaramba and Flock 2.0

 

LOL any particular reason for Flock?

 

Yeah muchacho....better than firefox, takes ff extensions....can't theme it, but it's the best browser we have for Linux IMO.

 

Now try Gentoo, it's even better than Kubuntu

 

Been there done that.
Got tired of compiling every thing.
I like Gentoo...just not for me.

 

It didn't take me that long to compile everything. Setting up the base system took about 5 hours of compilation. At that point I had KDE running just fine. After that, it was smooth sailing. The only thing I installed the binary for was OpenOffice.org. Not to mention that Portage is absolutely amazing

 

Compare your specs to mine
SINGLE CORE PROCS SUCK!

 

That's not very specific - it could have been dual core ;/

 

I can vouch for that! Running my "old" desktop with a pentium 4, it sucks indeed, but linux is better on it than windows.

 

I set up my Arch Linux + Openbox system from terminal in under 40 minutes. Regular updates are usually between 15 seconds and 2 minutes; the latest large update (~500MiB) including a new kernel image creation took under 3 minutes after it's been downloaded.

I'm not trying to dis Gentoo in any way. It definitely has major perks; but you can't deny the fact that binary distros are way faster (to update/install).

 

40 minutes?
Takes me 15-20

 

Well, first of all, Openbox takes a lot less time to set up than KDE. And of course it's faster to install binary packages than compiling the packages first. The compilation time is the price you pay for ultimate customizability. For example, using just one Amarok ebuild, I can choose between SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. In binary distros, multiple packages have to be made available

I also don't like how other distros like to patch packages. For example, Arch Linux's ``KDEmod'' has Arch Linux branding. Kubuntu replaced KControl with their own ``System Settings''. But I just want the vanilla KDE packages, though. I don't need to be reminded of which distro I'm using every second that I'm using it.

 

Regular KDE on arch doesn't......

 

Well, I did an FTP install.

@srunni
The version of KDE available from the Arch official repos is up-to-date vanilla with no rebranding or patching whatsoever. KDEmod was modded to be more optimized and specific to Arch, which is why it had to be rebranded. I don't think the KDE license will let you put the official KDE brand on a product that has been heavily modified, similar to how you can't put the name Firefox on Swiftfox or Flock.

I totally agree with you that the cusomizability of Gentoo's build system is at a level no binary package system can touch.