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Re: More KDE stars?
by Anton Velev on Friday 31/Oct/2003, @13:43

Talking about Hollywood showing something unknown to the TV users, I think is with the intent to scare or impress the stupid user with some (that user should think ) alien pentagon software. Computer replesentation in the Movies has always been very sick with the ideas like for example showing some trigonometry formulas in the Hackers movie or in other movies IPs with bigger than 255 numbers (hehe) or other stupid things like chatting in Textpad (!!!) and so on. The Movie directors should have to hire a geek to consult them how to represent a particular environment instead of improvise unreal situations. Anyway who cares, the stupid movie or TV watcher expects to hear some blips or to see some zoomin zoomouts or hacky matrix like symbols so that makes them happy, and of course if they put a regular XP or 2K nobody will be impressed.
About the KDE1 granny make a closer look and you will see no item in the taskbar :), more than that you can clearly see under the taskbar another taskbar which looks to me like 2K hidden taskbar - seems that this guys just took a shot of old KDE and put it on a win machine. (sorry if I broke someone's dreams)

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Re: More KDE stars?
by Stefan Heimers on Friday 31/Oct/2003, @23:59

Maybe they use kde-cygwin?

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Re: More KDE stars?
by Andy Goossens on Saturday 01/Nov/2003, @05:47

The taskbar could have been on top of the screen. Wasn't this by default in KDE1?

KDE 1 screenshots from the KDE.org site:
http://www.kde.org/screenshots/images/medium/matthiase1.jpg
http://www.kde.org/screenshots/images/medium/koffice1.jpg
http://www.kde.org/screenshots/images/medium/klyx1.jpg

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Re: More KDE stars?
by Anton Velev on Saturday 01/Nov/2003, @08:03

I used kde1 for a long time before kde2 appeared. I remember my taskbar was on the bottom, and that there was an option to autohide (just like in win), and also there was an opition to be on top. I am not sure what was the default but on my old kde1 desktops it was always on the bottom.
Anyway, being the taskbar on top or bottom this does not change the obvious fact that this is just a shot and that under the kde1's panel it's clearly noticable something else - may be a border of a window or hidden taskbar.
KDE1 was a nice desktop for its time but it was more looking like windows, version after version KDE look gets better while imitating more and more Mac OS X. If (the movie directors) wanted to scare and impress the user of course they would not put a real Mac or KDE but of course they would put something more scary like KDE1 or CDE (personally I would elect WindowMaker for this purpose).
Note: when I mean "scary", I mean very unknown, impressive and alien looking for the stupid computer unaware user.

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Re: More KDE stars?
by anon on Saturday 01/Nov/2003, @09:43

I remember the taskbar being on top too... maybe your distro changed it.

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Re: More KDE stars?
by Anon on Sunday 02/Nov/2003, @06:43

Was at the bottom for me too.
At that time using SuSE 5 and 6.x as far as I remember. Never mind...

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KDE 1 taskbar
by D. C. Sessions on Monday 03/Nov/2003, @12:41

Hmmm ...
Looking at my (current!) KDE 1.1 desktop, the taskbar is on the right-hand side of the screen, but the panel configuration allows it to be on any edge. Quite the user's choice.
And since you ask: no, I don't have the priveledges to upgrade. I'm lucky that the IT staff haven't deleted 1.1 to make me use CDE.

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Re: More KDE stars?
by Brandon Adams on Monday 03/Nov/2003, @13:58

I still use KDE 1.1 under RedHat 7.0 at my school for the sound system. The default is for taskbar to be at the top, but like in this screenshot, I have my system setup for the main panel to be at the bottom and the taskbar underneath it with autohide turned on.

Brandon Adams
Ursuline Academy (too cheap to afford real machines to put a newer distro on).

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