"Then, there's the lack of address bar search, i.e. if you type in sentences there, the string will not be forwarded to your search engine of choice, it will most likely be declared as an invalid protocol, which is fairly annoying and counter productive."
This is not true, you can select what behavior your want the address bar to have, for example to redirect to "I'm feeling lucky from google". It even allows you to use prefix keywords, like "wp janitor" or "fm gcc" to search for example wikipedia or freshmeat. All of this is configurable and you can create your own prefixes.
Not only that, you can use fish:/ or any other protocol like lan:/ smb:/ to directly connect to ssh accessible machines, samba,etc. Konqueror is actually one of my favorite browsers , since it's very well integrated with the rest of the system, although it feels a bit sluggish sometimes.
Unfortunately it's hard to find a decent KDE distribution. Kubuntu for example has many flaws, and imho makes a disservice to the KDE people.
One problem and something that you would think to work without a fuzz is kmail and its default akonadi configuration: kubuntu comes with restrictive access to mysql and you have to run a command in the shell to fix it, not exactly user friendly or someone new to the system...
Not only that, KDE heavy use of effects (which can be disabled) exposes many bugs with the binary drivers from nvidia and ati. If you check the their changelogs is quite amusing to see some binary releases with "this x.y.z beta release fixes [problem] with KDE 4.x.x"
If Canonical would scrap unity and give more attention and resources to KDE, we would have a really good desktop environment be now. Saying this, on my laptop I use xmonad or fluxbox and for desktops a mix of kde, xfce and gnome 2d. I tried unity, but honestly, it doesn't feel right.
Do you use XMonad as KDE's window manager or by itself? I've been considering trying XMonad with KDE, but I'm a college student so I actually like the silly effect :)
This is not true, you can select what behavior your want the address bar to have, for example to redirect to "I'm feeling lucky from google". It even allows you to use prefix keywords, like "wp janitor" or "fm gcc" to search for example wikipedia or freshmeat. All of this is configurable and you can create your own prefixes.
Not only that, you can use fish:/ or any other protocol like lan:/ smb:/ to directly connect to ssh accessible machines, samba,etc. Konqueror is actually one of my favorite browsers , since it's very well integrated with the rest of the system, although it feels a bit sluggish sometimes.
Unfortunately it's hard to find a decent KDE distribution. Kubuntu for example has many flaws, and imho makes a disservice to the KDE people.
One problem and something that you would think to work without a fuzz is kmail and its default akonadi configuration: kubuntu comes with restrictive access to mysql and you have to run a command in the shell to fix it, not exactly user friendly or someone new to the system...
Not only that, KDE heavy use of effects (which can be disabled) exposes many bugs with the binary drivers from nvidia and ati. If you check the their changelogs is quite amusing to see some binary releases with "this x.y.z beta release fixes [problem] with KDE 4.x.x"
If Canonical would scrap unity and give more attention and resources to KDE, we would have a really good desktop environment be now. Saying this, on my laptop I use xmonad or fluxbox and for desktops a mix of kde, xfce and gnome 2d. I tried unity, but honestly, it doesn't feel right.