As someone who does occasionally use GIMP for professional use, I'm afraid to inform you that its CMYK support is not what you think it is.... there is a CMYK colour picker and thats about it. So while its suitability for professional use might be debatable, its a fact that doesn't support CMYK properly and hasn't for years.

There is a plugin with rudimentary export support (Separate+) but doesn't really cover all bases, and the import plugin can only handle TIFFs.

Must second Knoppix.... I used one last week after not having used one for a few years and was REALLY impressed with the updates... This on a machine that neither Ubuntu (which I usually use for others (but am starting to reconsider)) or Fedora (which I always use for myself) could boot, at least with default options. Straight into Compiz too. Had kind of stopped using it after the other distro's started shipping as live discs too, but it was the most notable "Linux rocks!" moment I've had in the last few years... promised to seed it for a few months too.

Don't know if I'm missing your question here, but Inkscape and GIMP are fine on KDE - until you mentioned it, I've never actually thought of them as being anything different (or maybe never having been a gnome user than for more than a few hours, didn't notice their gnomishness). Have never bothered to check how much overhead they pull along with them...

People might want to watch a movie on a train commute... where I live an hour each way is not particularly unusual. Also have you considered what could be done with a phone that has HDMI out?

Clementine will be something you like better.

Over the years I have borrowed a fair bit of bandwidth from free networks in hundreds of places... this has ranged from a quick address or map check in a city I'm passing through, to a few weeks while I wait for my own connection to get set up in a new house. The least I can do is offer you all the same convenience, so go ahead, there's no WEP, WPA or filtering to stand in your way... I might turn off the router for a few minutes or change my SSID to something snarky if you suck my entire pipe dry, but it'll be back in a few minutes... oh, and by the way, I don't actually use an of my own devices wirelessly on a regular basis anyway, the wireless side of my network is there as my little public service for you all. Seems I'm not in such bad company either....

What is Stoichiometry?

How about a place to distribute payments to open projects... I might not suddenly be overwhelmed enough to make a significant donation to something I was using, but if I had had a few dollars in some account on open.org, I might be tempted on a whim to throw 50cents at something I was finding useful tonight.... think there might be a few hundred others out there who might be tempted to do the same, all of which are not going to go to the effort of donating 50 cents, but are otherwise going to do nothing at all.

I've spent a few years waiting for Amarok to get sorted out too... Clementine is coming along very nicely though, so think I have given up waiting....

Its called LVM. Not only will it magically make your 10 hard drives appear as one if you want, but will allow you to shrink or expand partitions spread across those 10 hard drives at will and create new "volumes" (not really partitions under this scheme) to take up whatever free space or percentage thereof you have scattered across those 10 drives and let you write a single file into that partition/volume transparently... and just to stay on topic, do find myself using a GUI to manage my volumes almost exclusively.

I didn't RTFA either, but my phone (I live in Japan) has a "Spa Menu", with a feature called "Healing Illumination" when turned on makes kind of peaceful sounds... sort of "ambient", as in the music genre, along with blinkenlights fading between "soothing" pale shades of colour. (Other settings on the menu are to display an hourglass or clock, presumably to keep yourself from being overcooked, the obvious music/radio/tv player and even a quiz section to brush up on your English or Maths while you soak)

To answer your question though, these sounds and light display can also be set up to be the result of an incoming call, so the answer is probably BOTH.

My phone is at least 2 years old though, so I'm guessing this "news" is a bit of an evolution of that. In case you are wondering what the obsession is with bathing, the phone is waterproof, so I guess when the phone was released taking it into the bath with you was a big selling point... Camera and all.

Just in case my sarcasm detector is malfunctioning, and seeing as its the second comment I've seen along these lines, here you go.

Maybe if you got your head out of the clouds and realised that 185 CHF (~180USD) is what the vast majority of people on this planet would regard as a pretty reasonable WEEKLY wage, you wouldn't think that advice like "well its only $1000 to replace, so just throw it away" adds anything to this conversation. For a significant percentage of the Slashdot demographic maybe we could call it daily, but doesn't really change the issue. I wonder if you have ever considered what happens to the thrown away item, which is likely to be 98% functional, even though its an antique 3 year old piece of hardware. You might consider that there are billions of people out there (not only in some third world dustbowl) for whom this would be a treasured item and who might be interested to find an easier (and more economical) way to regain that 2%. Believe it or not, some of us are even interested in salvaging that last 5% from really broken boxes, before we add them to the to the massive stinking junk-pile of this disposable culture.

"But hey, maybe i'm just to negative about this. Maybe you can enlighten me how you can sort out these issues."

For you I would suggest taking a year of your life to sort out these issues and go somewhere. Go wander the earth for a bit. Go see undeveloped, developing and developed countries. Meet normal people. Rich ones, poor ones and ones doing ok. Do some work that you aren't trained in. Escape your bubble. When you get back home I can pretty much guarantee that the only negativity you will feel is toward your old attitude and those that still share it. You will suddenly have a great appreciation for the immense privilege you live in and be in awe of the planet around you. And maybe even helping out a less knowledgeable friend won't be just an annoyance anymore.

Japan uses Yahoo. Massively. In fact it wasn't that long ago that I would get blank stares from people when mentioning google, and having to substitute yahoo instead... more recently people at least know what you are talking about, even if they aren't using it. Part of the reason for this is that they achieved huge brand recognition (if not much profit) when their subsidiary company Yahoo!Broadband did a pretty massive campaign to gain subscribers, giving away routers outside train stations, offering free three month connections and so on. (They are also tied into Softbank, one of the larger mobile phone companies here.)

E-bay is another pretty unheard of site, while Yahoo! auctions alone would probably keep the company afloat on its own over here. They are heavily used as a portal site and the usual first stop for people wanting to buy plane tickets or check the weather. For many people I think Yahoo is actually thought of as "the internet" and don't seem likely to go anywhere soon...