If you want duplicate image search functionality, then you can move up to the heavyweight of the KDE image viewer world - digikam

These are currently modular but enabled by default. I think Nepomuk is the main offender here. Akonadi is just a front end agnostic backend for PIM software in much the same way that telepathy is for instant messaging

yeah kuickshow has been a dead project for many years now - I am surprised you could find a copy... This kind of dates your reply

or Leisure Suit Lazarus

My take home from your post - you think Apple is God... And possibly you want protection from yourself.
Is that pretty much it?

the x and delete keys do exactly the same thing in blender. x is also available because delete is a common operation and x is in the part of the keyboard where the left hand normally sits

How do you use Nvidia Settings to reconfigure your screen layout automatically when you plug in a new screen? I have a laptop that gets a second screen when I am in the office and this would save me a few clicks.

That happened exactly once in recently times in the transition between 2.4->2.5 what on earth are you talking about.

It's more the case that CUDA has supported the features necessary for hardware accelerated pathtracing for a lot longer than OpenCL. Also there are driver bugs on the AMD side that cause problems. This may not be the same going on into the future...

A version control system is just something that lets multiple people on multiple computers work on a single project consisting of many files at the same time and be reasonably sure that they have the same versions of everything as everybody else.

Furthermore it is usally easy to get a copy of earlier versions of any of the files in the project.

At the moment I am looking I am looking at sparkleshare (http://www.sparkleshare.org) as a way of making it as easy as possible for a non technical user to interface with a version control system.

I actually don't mind unity. The Caveat here is that I for various reasons I run KDE most of the time myself... It just so happens that my unity works quite similarly to my KDE setup. I have however been happier putting non expert users in front of unity than anything else (after I set up the tools they want to use)

I think it an as well not an instead of....
Right now there are a number of people who use PCs who are better suited to other form factors so I expect the trend to go that way in the future. But there are lots and lots of people who want to do things that work better in a pc form factor or people who really need both.

You do realise that this is an optional feature and not even on by default.

From the description of the work you are doing you are probably better off using a vector graphics tool such as Inkscape. Or using both GIMP and Inkscape (you can drag and drop layers or images from the GIMP directly into Inkscape). Inkscape has the advantages that your lines and shape remain editable. I might be wrong here.

However kudos for explaining the short comings in a way that a software designer could actually use.

you missed
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A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire. [quotations ]
The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
(dated, chiefly NE US) Gumption; spirit; ambition; vigor; pep. [quotations ]

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Adjective
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(dated, Scotland and N England) Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.