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Great interview
by Patcito on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @09:10

Speaking of the future, does anybody know what's up with Decibel? The mailing list has almost no traffic and I read that basyskom kind of dropped the development.

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Re: Great interview
by Anon on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @09:58

Nothing but compilation fixes for the last few months:

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/pim/decibel/

If it's not outright "dead" then it is, at the very least, on life-support. Not looking promising :/

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Re: Great interview
by Patcito on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @11:08

> If it's not outright "dead" then it is, at the very least, on life-support. Not looking promising :/

I'm afraid so, plus Decibel is supposed to be using Tapioca which I think was dropped too :/

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Re: Great interview
by Skeith on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @12:30

This is a feature I'm sad to see drift away, having chat and VoIP accessible in a uniform way would be priceless these days.

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Re: Great interview
by kwilliam on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @12:47

No! This can't happen... I was really excited about Decibel. Way more excited than I was about Plasma!

I want my presence-aware, task-aware applications! E.g., my Voip app that shows small pop-ups if I'm watching a movie, but rings if I'm not, and all music/video pauses if I accept a call... my email client that shows a "Reply by IM" if the sender is currently online... my Plasmoid that changes my Facebook and IM status at once... not having to reconfigure IM accounts every time I try a different client... my I-want-to-talk-with-Joe button that picks between video conferencing/voip/IM/SMS/email for me...

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Re: Great interview
by Richard on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @13:52

+1

hopefully someone gives decibel his or her love, and continues to maintain, and develop it!

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Re: Great interview
by AS on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @17:20

THIS.

This is the type of thing a desktop overhaul should bring. If there was more stuff like this, I'd have far less heartburn over what I see as useless changes designed to appeal to people who don't and will never use KDE.

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Re: Great interview
by Max on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @17:36

+1 I like these features you described.

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Re: Great interview
by Jeremy on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @22:46

In the feature list for KDE 4.1, they are a few plans for Decibel.

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Re: Great interview
by George Goldberg on Thursday 07/Feb/2008, @01:59

Decibel has been somewhat dormant for a while, but don't worry its coming back to life again. It is definitely not dead. Look out for some bigger progress in the near future! And if anyone wants to help it I'm sure it would be very welcome.

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