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Quicksilver alternatives for Linux

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: December 6th, 2007
Everyone loves Quicksilver. If you don't know what it is, shame on you and you can't call your self a geek. In either case, you should check out this Google Tech Talk on Quicksilver by its creator. While Quicksilver rules supreme as the king of universal access and action applications, what are Linux users supposed [...]
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Inconsistent font rendering in GNOME and KDE

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: November 1st, 2007
I'm running KDE on (K)Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) and here's the problem. I start KWrite and GEdit, and configure them to use the exact same font. However, the two applications render the same font very very differently. Check out these screenshots to see what I mean. KWrite with Inconsolata 11pt, 96 dpi GEdit with Inconsolata 11pt, [...]
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Priceless quote from Linus

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: December 30th, 2005
I'm not a desktop-wars fanatic (I am a KDE user, though), but this is just priceless: I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This “users are idiots, and are confused by functionality” mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use [...]
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Go KDE!

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 20th, 2005
I love where KDE is going with the Appeal project. Its amazing how open source evolves and develops. Over the last 2 years, both GNOME and KDE have come very close to becoming usable by novice computer users as an easy to use, good looking desktop operating system. And I'm pretty darn sure that with [...]
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