My co-teacher and co-user of the sole surviving Ubuntu workstation in our school finally convinced me to switch to the KDE desktop instead of using Ubuntu's defaut Gnome, which I've been using ever since I had a conscience attack and vowed not to use pirated software (if I can help it :-)).
Despite my protests against KDE's one-click behavior (which my co-teacher assured me can be cured, because his home PC does not have that behavior -- only that he doesn't know how to tweak the settings), I was convinced to switch because Gnome could not seem to be able to unmount my flash drive, which unfortunately gets its share of Windows viruses whenever it goes to the Windows world.
Then I realize I have to switch to HTML view whenever I go try to load GMail. Apparently the issue is not yet fixed permanently; what was done was that Konqueror would just not identify itself as Firefox, so that GMail directs to the HTML interface. The problem seem to be related to the code used by GMail.
