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Yeah, I wish they had gone from Qt3 to Qt4 without redoing the entire UI at the same time. This is doubly true of the apps: Amarok 1.4 was, imo, the best music player I've used while Amarok 2.0 was buggy and slow and had none of the things I liked about 1.4

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I was looking forward to kde4 until the slow/buggy reality hit. Maybe it was my graphics drivers, but the kicker successor never delivered for me. I switched to fluxbox for a while, and then gnome as it was and has stayed in a better state thanks to the install base on Ubuntu. Haven't looked again at kde since.

That sounds like me, although I eventually found my way to tiling window managers (xmonad for a while, now stumpwm as it's written in my favorite language)

Once I had compiz working, it's been gnome exclusively.

Fluxbox was easy to configure with multiple monitors and customize in general. Just tried xmonad with xmonad --replace, and crashed X. Which has been my only experience with xmonad honestly.

Edit: I do like gtile and some other gnome extensions.

I should say that I actually like quite a bit about GNOME. I'm even a fan of mutter and GNOME shell (especially with gtile). I just wish I could decouple it from the rest of GNOME.

I run xmonad at the moment. The learning curve is huge if you don't know Haskell. It took me ages to get it set up and working. But after I learned Haskell, it's really very nice.

I do like the vim-ness of xmonad in this video, and the tabs, and context awarness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70IxjLEmomg

Will need to work on getting these features through xmonad, or something else. gtile itself seems to be js.

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