"With all said and done, I would like to bullet-point a few
things that I really love about KDE. After tinkering around with
the system and setting up a build environment (mainly for building
Plasmoid binaries), I have this to say:
" -Plasma gets the job done nowadays. It's not the crashy,
spiteful desktop of the 4.0 days. Also, many of the themes and
plasmoids that have come out are just incredible. As of writing
this, I'm using the Daisy plasmoid for Window management with an
Xbar on a panel up top. All with a Glassified theme. Looks
spiffy!
" -Cmake, the build system for KDE applications, is a fantastc
piece of work. I've always had trouble with the build-essentials
packages when compiling Gnome apps. I have to hand it to Gnome
packaging teams, that stuff can be a real pain in the rear if you
don't know the dependencies! At the very least, Cmake is great
about letting me know about a missing dependency, or an error in
the CMakelists.txt, or etc. It's becoming a real joy just to find
the most obscure experimental apps on KDE-Apps.org, and build them
to see what they do."
