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  KDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote Now Online
Community and Events Posted by Danny Allen on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @22:55
from the talk-on-the-tube dept.
On Friday, January 18th, Aaron Seigo, President of the KDE e.V. gave the keynote at the KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, California about KDE 4, presenting KDE to the world and the world to KDE. The keynote was recorded, and is now available for streaming through Google Video. Continue reading to watch the keynote!

Aaron started with an introduction to KDE 4, beginning with the history of the project and expressing how far we have come in the last 11 years. Then, Aaron explored what KDE is, and what our community is based on - freedom and openness. Freedom to do work, have fun, and connect with others. Further, Aaron moved on to KDE 4, and discussed the near-future plans and ideas. The vision of KDE 4 is based upon three principles: beauty, accessibility, and functionality. He ventured into the many areas that KDE has improved upon, and pointed to our roadmap for the KDE 4 cycle.

The keynote is immediately available on Google Video, and will be available for download in other formats soon. The other talks will also become available tomorrow.



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can i have a transcript !!!
by djouallah mimoune on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @23:06
can i have a transcript of the speech, my english skills is very low,
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not for me...
by Chani on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @23:10
"this video is currently not available. please try again later."

maybe google knows I'm really supposed to be studying and won't let me watch the video until I'm done ;)
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Aaron outdoes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combined
by Tray on Saturday 19/Jan/2008, @23:36
Not that Aaron should try to imitate either of them; they're both egomaniac control freaks. KDE and Free/Open Source Software are really lucky to have has such an eloquent spokesperson as Aaron. And he's the talented developer in charge of one of the most visible parts of KDE, Plasma. Tip my hat, sir!
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hair cut !!
by djouallah mimoune on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @01:53
ok it is stupid to appreciate someone only upon his look, but don't you think that Seigo need a hair cut. i suppose that is the task of kde marketing team!

i would like to thank you all guys, i am here proudly showing kde app under windows to my coworkers,

cheers from algeria
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Digg IT !!!
by an user on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @03:26
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/KDE_4_0_Release_Event_Keynote_from_Google_Headquarters
Too cool to not share it !
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hi def
by mxttie on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @04:28
thanks! looking forward to the hi def download / torrent :)
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Excellent and enlightening speech!
by Tapio Kautto on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @06:48
This was a great speech, it really combined all the bits of information about KDE 4 we've been reading before.

Thanks for Aaron and the others for a great summary.

KDE 4 sure will be a great software platform - it already is very promising and getting there. Few years ago it used to be just a desktop, later a desktop environment and set of applications. Now we can seriously talk about a software platform.

For and end user desktop and the applications are the operating system. In that sense KDE will provide a wonderful platform for application providers - both open source as well as proprietary.

What I'm dreaming of is a seamless integration of free and closed software on the same platform. Examples of that would be:

- a lot more commercial and proprietary applications based on KDE libraries
- seamless integration of commercial plugins (Flash, Shockwave, DivX, mp3) in KDE
- seamless integration of proprietary hardware drivers (Win32 drivers on Unix/Linux, automatic or semi-automatic installation of proprietary Unix/Linux drivers)
- seamless integration of Windows applications on Unix/Linux and KDE, especially commercial 3D games

I'm an open source fan and a promoter, but I think that commercial closed source software has to be taken into account as well. If we could integrate commercial offerings into this great open environment, we'd definetly be on a path to WORLD DOMINATION ;)

A lot of this is already on it's way. There is a way to run plugins and applications on Wine and KDE, but these solutions are not ready for the end user.

Tapio Kautto
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Ogg!
by Kevin Kofler on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @07:06
> The keynote is immediately available on Google Video, and will be available
> for download in other formats soon.

Hopefully Ogg Theora+Vorbis will be one of those! Down with proprietary formats!

See also this great blog post by John "J5" Palmieri about this topic: http://www.j5live.com/?p=421
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Download?
by liquidat on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @07:53
Is there a way to actually download the entire video? I don't like these streams....
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What's up with Decibel?
by Patcito on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @09:08
I read in #kopete that basysKom had only one guy working on decibel and that lately they had kind of dropped the project and that the guy was kind of working on his own initiative now on Decibel :/

Anybody has news about decibel? It really looks like a great project.
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Two things I wonder about
by Strangeness on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @12:55
The first is: Aaron mentions in his speech that Decibel just had made a release - however, the last release was long ago, and I do wonder what the stage of Decibel actually is.

The second thing: where is Sonnet? There is no spell checking around in my KDE 4.0 installation and I haven't seen any screenshots of it recently. Additionally, there has been no work at it at all as far as I see it from the svn.

But besides these two the list for KDE 4.1 really is impressive by now, and most things are already almost done - that's almost as exciting as KDE 4.0 itself ;)
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breaking new: danny picture
by anon on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @02:06
http://franz.keferboeck.info/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=632

who could though that !!!
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Upset with KDE 4.0
by LEANG Chumsoben on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @07:50
I have been waiting for KDE 4.0 for long time until its release recently. I then decided to install it in my openSUSE 10.3 via 1-click installation (http://en.opensuse.org/KDE4). The installation went just fine then I got a very nice desktop. I was a little surprise to see most icons on my desktop showing as question mark (mostly the default openSUSE icons). I didn't blame that, maybe Oxigen didn't offer such icons.

I then came across with another surprise. I could not switch the default K-Menu to the classic one (as seen on http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/node/2542). Another surprise was, I could not move the icons I added to Taskbar. I expected that, there will be a "Move" menu item when I right-click on those icons (see the Dolphin icon in my screenshot below).

Another worst surprise was http://www.flickr.com/photos/37463129@N00/2209623432/. I got this mess desktop when I moved Firefox icon around (move to the bottom area) the desktop. The Firefox icon even disappeared in the taskbar (it was behind the taskbar). And I have no way to resize or move the Taskbar.

Last but not least, the Ctrl+Alt+D didn't work as my expectation either.

So now what should I suppose to do? Yeah, maybe this is related to openSUSE more than KDE.
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Hail to the president
by m on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @16:38
Great presentation, just that.

I never watched any "web-clip" longer than 4 minutes, but I watched the whole keynote. Honest, still optimistic, aware of the left and right, still addressing the opportunities. Thanks, Aaron.

My contribution so far was 160 translated strings in a 3.5 extragear app, think of it as the Planck constant of contribution. But this presentation left me so excited and encouraged, I won't stop there.

"Great innovations start with great optimism." Indeed.

PS: Did I say Thank you?!
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Download torrent?
by Steve M on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @12:32
Are we still getting a downloadable torrent of the file?

I would love to watch it at the full NTSC 720p resolution, or as close as I can get to it.

The google vid is too grainy when blown up to full screen.
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KDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote on YouTube
by Sergey B. on Friday 25/Jan/2008, @00:20
Hello.
Does anybody can post this video on http://www.youtube.com?
In my company http://video.google.com is banned.

P.S.
Who want to download file from google or youtube, can use http://keepvid.com/ service.
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how did anyone...
by mike on Friday 25/Jan/2008, @17:22
how did anyone tolerate listening to that kid kyle. wow shut up get off the stage!
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Wow!! I didn't know that about KDE
by Richard Lionhard on Friday 25/Jan/2008, @18:38
Wow!!

I always thought KDE was a desktop manager, kind of like gnome, and stuff. I had no idea that KDE/Qt is a whole plattform. This is awesome!!

People could finally write plattform independent software, not slow, buggy, cut down (like java), but real applications. (and games!!!) If it weren't for the keynote video on Google, I would have never known.

All I heard about KDE 4.0 so far that it was an update to the KDE desktop. All the screenshots and reviews on various blogs, just showed off the desktop. Let's face it the desktop itself looks incomplete and not that impressive. The huge taskbar and icons gave me the impression that KDE figured all users are over 70 and practically blind without glasses. Come on, that's so much wasted screen real estate. Now after the video though...

I understand. I'm really impressed.

Can't wait to see what you guys will come up with in July!! Hopefully there will be a similar keynote to this one.

I'm glad google is behind this too. Now we really know this will be big!!!
Hopefully google news, calendar, gmail, etc. will all integrate with the desktop and Koffice. Is this going to run with Android? I would be absolutely blown away if I could synchronize Kpim, or evolution with google online and with my iphone. Heck!! Run KDE apps on my iphone.


I think this is the revolution we've all been waiting for. True plattform independence, the exact same apps running on everything from a car stereo,iphone,TV,desktop,and laptop.


How come there is so little buzz about it though? Everybody is only talking about KDE desktop. Other than this keynote I haven't heard squat about KDE/Qt as a plattform.
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