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KDE is slowly losing ground. It used to be my desktop of choice but that was in the knoppix days. Now there is of course Kubuntu but I switched (more or less by accident rather than by design) a while ago and I don't think I'll be switching back. My desktop is practically invisible to me anyway, all I run on a normal workday is firefox, a terminal window and thunderbird.

The one piece of software from the KDE distro that I really love is Konsole.



If you love Konsole, give yakuake a try. It is Konsole in quake fashion; you press F12 and a terminal drops down. I can't imagine life without it.


I absolutely love yakuake. One of the reason why I'm still using KDE.


There's Guake for GNOME (and Unity): https://github.com/Guake/guake/


Guake in GNOME3 was pretty broken the last time I used it (a lot of time ago, it was the thing that made me switch to a tiling WM). Something changed lately?


I don't use KDE anymore (switched to XMonad a few years ago), but I still use Dolphin for its DAV/SMB capabilities, and occasionally gwenview. But why do you think KDE is "losing ground"?

And Konsole is pretty good, but doesn't handle resizing well in XMonad, so it's urxvt for me.


> But why do you think KDE is "losing ground"?

I used to see it everywhere that linux was being used, 50/50 or so with other desktops, I don't even remember the last time I saw someone use it.


Well, that's a bit circumstantial, but OK.


I love Konsole too, and really like Klipper (the best clipboard manager for Linux in my opinion).


I liked Konqueror as a web browser. Nice touches such as stopping image animations ...


Rekonq it's like a faster and lightweight Chrome




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