The biggest recent changes on my desktop

The biggest recent changes on my desktop

Posted Oct 21, 2004 6:43 UTC (Thu) by vblum (guest, #1151)
Parent article: A couple of applications from your future desktop

Since this is about changes on the desktop per se ... in my world, changes were much more mundane, but somehow I think they deserve credit, too:

* Kontact is actually usable (embarrassingly, its notes function is rather useful, although it might strike one as trivial at first) and has actually conviced me to switch

* Firefox has a very nice layout and implements a convincing concept, as has been noted many times before (but, this posting is about giving credit)

* Quanta Plus is becoming an amazing tool, and has convinced me to abandon emacs for web editing.

The biggest issue about desktop features, IMO, are not so much radically new apps. The biggest issue is to find something which is so much more appealing than my existing solution that it gets me to switch my established behavior. The above three did that recently.

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