KDE4 themes sold me to KDE. It really soothing my eyes and making my desktop uncluttered.

I must admit that KDE4 really left behind when in Internet apps. I still use Firefox and Pidgin. But, one thing that shines:

- KMail: Mails threaded and sorted based on the most recent emails.
- Choqok: Microblogging made easy.

It’s a shame that those powerful features are a little bit hidden and the related GUI is far to be easy for a novice

The main point of this (for me) is that we sometimes get people posting to kde-promo saying that they’re giving talk or something about KDE software and asking for pointers. Well, it’s best for people to talk about their own experience and the features/apps they are passionate about, but I’d like the wiki page to be something we can point people to for ideas of potential topics.

Therefore, we need short, punchy, impressive demonstrable features. Saying “look, our app can do all the stuff your Windows app can do” is not enough – if it’s only equal, why switch? (if you don’t care about free software – yet). We need (I think) things that grab the attention of people and make them want to try and app out. So I’m looking really for “cool feature x from application y” rather than “application x is as good as proprietary application y”. Dave Lyon mentioned that in his post too. So K3B is a very cool app, but what one feature does it have that makes it better than Nero? Also, ideally these will be apps built on KDE Platform 4.

Anyway, the whole point of the wiki is that we can make a big list and then refine it, so please go ahead and keep posting suggestions there, or here.

There are a few comments above about deficiencies in apps from SC 4 compared to KDE 3. Ok, they’re valid points (I guess, proxy isn’t an issue for me, but I would like better printing). However, that’s a bit off topic, I don’t have the skills t do anything about them and I doubt mentioning them here is going to get them seen to any quicker – as with everything we do, it depends on someone stepping up and writing the code.

@ Jason – yeah, the Plasma Desktop customisation is a nice point, I’ll add something about that later

@ Cypher – ok, I didn’t add Konqueror shortcuts to the wiki page because I don’t think it’s an impressive feature for that many people (although several people have comment on it to me. And yes, Firefox has something similar (you can set up the same behaviour in Konqueror as ad default search engine) although Konqui’s is more powerful – you can add things like wikipedia and imdb too. But I think this one has a limited audience.
I use Kopete – it works rather well for me – but again, there are other apps like Pidgin with similar abilities, it depends on the audience
KRandR – well, I gave a presentation on Monday, the guy before me turned up with a Mac, couldn’t get it to talk to the projector, then he tried the Windows laptop that lives in the seminar room, much pressing of random buttons later we got that working. When I gave mine I right-clicked the KRandR icon and activated the projector display – he was impressed, but this is hardware dependent – luckily I have intel graphics so generally everything works perfectly
Kile – no, of course that’s not for general consumption (I didn’t add that to the wiki page for that reason) but I work all day with scientists and they are impressed by it. LyX is also very nice of course
Thanks for the feedback though – I want a list that is generally applicable and we at least agree on some of the things that people have been impressed by but shouldn’t be in the wiki list (Konq and Kile)

@ Dave Lyon – Exactly (I’ll add a general point below re criteria) but your post about the CD burner on Mac hits the spot – it’s all about the little things that catch attention, they don’t even have to be useful

@ moltonel, thanks – I’ll try and get some of those added

@ Andre – Yep, my experience too on many of those.