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Re: What about tenor?
by Mark Hannessen on Friday 12/Aug/2005, @03:15

just wondering what on earth this "plasma" is.
I read there site and to me it reads something like:

<INSERT random promotion textline>
<something about superkaramba>
<hype hype hype>
<kde rocks>

but anyone out there any idea what plasma "is"?
is it a totally new gui (like the windows vista hardware accelerated UI), or a team effort to add functions and optimize the current UI, or is it some sort of usability project with an addiction for eye candy? the "extender" function surely seems to hint in that direction. http://plasma.bddf.ca/cms/1069

I'd love to say that it is great and promising...
but I just have some trouble giving it a place somewhere in my mind. :P

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Re: What about tenor?
by Dolio on Friday 12/Aug/2005, @04:28

It's a project that tries to unify the desktop and panels into one coherent unit.

For instance, superkaramba themes appear to sit on the desktop, but they're really just windows below everything else. Kdesktop itself doesn't know anything about the themes, so if I try to do something like, say, mark superkaramba themes as desktop windows (so that windows don't snap to them), the desktop (with icons turned on) will paint over superkaramba.

Similarly, stuff on the panel is largely separate from the desktop. Plasma aims to have them more integrated. An extender may pop up, and you may be able to drag it off onto the desktop. Kicker applets and karamba-like themes would be one-and-the-same. Stuff like that.

Basically, today KDE has a whole bunch of things that seem like they're all related (panel, desktop, superkaramba), but they're actually all separate applications that don't integrate as well as they could. Plasma is an effort to bring them together as they should be, in addition to taking them in new and interesting directions, for both usability and eye candy.

At least, that's my take. I do agree that aseigo tends to include a lot of hype when he talks, no offense intended. I think he talks to regular people too much. :)

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Re: What about tenor?
by Aaron J. Seigo on Friday 12/Aug/2005, @12:39

that's a pretty good summary of the framework that will be plasma indeed. the only thing missing from it is what we aim to build on top of it, but that's stuff that can wait for now ... we're concentrating on getting to that framework in the first place at the moment, namely bringing all those separate pieces you mentioned together and making the look beautiful and work coherently.

> I think he talks to regular people too much

my therapist keeps telling me this, too. ;)

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