FTFY

It is an alternative to your normal trash, not a replacement. You have to explicitly drag a file in there that you wish to be deleted and shared.

Yeah I get that, but IMO a single framework that I can learn (Qt/kde) that allows me to build desktop and mobile apps is quite compelling. And qt is a good framework. It's some of the best competition out there for .NET so I want to see it succeed.

Also, recently, kde4 has become a good desktop environment. It has come a long way and is completely usable in it's current form.. assuming of course that you ignore the utter bullshit which is nepomuk and striggi.. :)

They keep talking about mobile devices. Is this just theoretical or are people actually running kde on real phones/tablets?

Fact: Google is a huge company whose services are used by MANY people

Highly likely: Whatever format Google choose for YouTube will become extremely popular.

I haven't had much experience with macs either but as I understand it, on a mac, you have one "Application" active at one time. The active application controls the menu bar up the top of the screen. A keyboard shortcut exists which cycles the windows that belong to this application. Another keyboard shortcut exists that cycles the currently active application.

Also if you close all of an application's windows, you haven't actually closed the application. It's still running. The menubar will still show the application's menu and usually allow you to launch new windows.

The end result is that multi-monitor window management becomes a bit tricky because of the menubar thing and workspaces are slightly broken because the idea of grouping your windows by activity is lost as you are forced to group them by application. In Gnome/KDE etc, it doesn't matter what application created the window, you can group it with anything else by putting it on a workspace of it's own. I don't actually recall specifically what goes wrong when you try to work like this on a mac. I only recall that it's problematic.

I don't actually own a mac so I could be wrong about any of the above.

That awful thing that MacOS does with it's window management.

Last I checked, with Gnome 3, you're not forced to take any notice of them if you don't want to.

Gnome 3 seems to encourage grouping windows by activity, rather than grouping windows by what application they belong to.

TAKE IT BACK!

In that case, tif should have done a good job compressing it so most of the half gig should be on the rest.

I've never heard of Old Man Murray but that doesn't mean it should be deleted. This all got argued about last time over obscure programming languages but, why are we deleting history? Are we running out of disk space? I think not.