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Ars Rocks :D
by jospoortvliet on Sunday 06/Jan/2008, @06:11
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I feel Ars (and Ryan Paul) is doing a great job writing about KDE, in an objective and decent manner, and I must say I really look forward to meeting (some of) them at the Release Event...
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KDE4
by Michael on Sunday 06/Jan/2008, @07:07
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Well. Uhm. I'm still a bit confused about what to think now of what is soon to be released as KDE 4.0. Are they really serious about those black boxes everywhere? The taskbar for instance looks really ugly in my opinion. Will there be no way to change its color back to sth. more acceptable like a dark blue? Likewise what about the other applets on the desktop like the clock. Will they all be in black? Ugh. In this case I'd rather stick with KDE 3.5 for the time being. Don't take this wrong please. I know there's lots of new technology underneath the surface and this is just the beginning, but from an end-users' point-of-view KDE 4.0 means right now: Less features, less customizability. 3-D functions, effects etc also work relatively sluggish right now. For instance I would expect that I can seamlessly resize and rotate the anolog clock applet without any jumps. Not at all even though I own a fairly decent PC. Perhaps this all works out but right now I wouldnt recommend KDE 4.0 to any end-user.
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Reduction of features
by Vedran Furač on Sunday 06/Jan/2008, @11:55
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Now that KDE 4.0 is here I can ask why you are removing features form it? I know that plasma (is there an option to remove desktop toolbox from the top right corner...) and kwin effects (...and put present windows trigger there?) are not complete and ready yet, but what about other stuff which is present in KDE3?
For example, in file dialog there are no more owner, group and permissions columns or "folder first", "separate folders" and "case sensitive" options, WHY?
Apps are not exceptions. Look at gwenview, it's all nice, but it has only 30% features of the older version which I use currently.
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Where is Plasma headed?
by Parminder Ramesh on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @00:16
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Hi, the work that's gone into the KDE4 series is impressive. I was looking at the Plasma website (which I know is out of date) and I saw a whole thing on "extenders" (scroll halfway down http://plasma.kde.org/cms/1069). So I now wonder if extenders are still part of the developers' plans for Plasma (obviously in 4.1 or later) or if they are going to use something else for the same functionality?
Also, there was a really exciting article a while ago by Troy Unrau about a job progress manager (http://dot.kde.org/1169588301/). And it was also cool to hear from Aaron that Plasma will be better integrated later on for use with Linux MCE. There probably won't be updates on that for a while, but it's definitely something I'll look forward to as KDE4 matures.
So how do the developers find all their ideas going into implementation phase? Have you had to remove or change some of the features you intend to have for Plasma over the next few years, or is everything going according to a pre-arranged plan? KDE is a really exciting project, and I look forward to hearing more about its future direction soon!
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Ktip message regarding panels
by Josep on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @01:10
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Hi, today I runned KDE4 on a new user from a saturday's build on kde 4.0 branch and I found Ktip first tip was on a way for adding new panels that I'm not sure if it still valid on Plasma, because it remainds to me the kicker way to do it, even if the Ktip message doesn't mention kicker. I attached the Ktip message.
BTW, it is possible in Plasma to have another panel? I ask this because my brother can't live without a top panel with knewsticker. I haven't seen any GUI method to do it, but I'm interested if it is possible editing a Plasma configuration file.
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