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  Quickies: Nepomuk, Raptor, LProf, FOSDEM, Supporting Member
General Posted by Sebastian Kuegler on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @16:59
from the cows-and-calfs dept.
The KDE e.V. welcomes a new Supporting Member, OSN Online Social Network GmbH, a company based in Düsseldorf in Germany. Supporting Members help the community with financial support, their contribution is used for example for sponsoring developer meetings you often read about on the Dot. *** The Nepomuk KDE project that is creating the social semantic desktop on top of KDE has launched its new website. Go there for numerous tutorials integrating Nepomuk features like "who sent me this file?". *** The German Kubuntu team has an interview with Amarok release dude, Harald Sitter. *** The team developing the Raptor-menu has just launched their website. Raptor aims to deliver a new launch menu for KDE. *** We were sent an interview with Hal Engel of LProf the only open source ICC profiler, made in Qt. *** FOSDEM is Europe's biggest Free Software conference and will be held this weekend in Brussels. See the KDE and Cross Desktop rooms for exciting talks and say hi to us at Friday's beer event.


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Screw everything else...
by T. J. Brumfield on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @18:55
There are many things I've suggested keeping me from using KDE 4.x every day, but Raptor looks good enough to single-handedly change my mind.

Keep up the fantastic work! I can't wait to use it!
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Great Job guys!
by Mike on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @19:02
GO LINUX! GO KDE 4.1! GO AmaroK!

There are huge fanclubs of AmaroK, and KDE on facebook. Somebody should post links to the "." there.

Great to see progress. KDE and Qt are going to be great. I might finally be able to give up my Windows box. I could have my own independend "cloud" (see my other post. I could do my work completely platform independent on all devices I own. All running Linux + KDE. )
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"." = dot
by Mike on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @19:04
"." = dot.kde
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Looks great, but PLEASE SAVE DESKTOP REAL ESTATE.
by Max on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @19:46
Raptor looks great.

I hope that's just a demo/screenshot. This wastes so much Screen real estate!!

Does everybody here have huge monitors? Or huge resolutions? Or is totally blind? (no offense to disabled people, I totally understand in their case) Normal people though should, either use glasses, or sit closer to the monitor.

I am typing this from a Sony laptop with a 10.4" screen, using just 1024x768. This taskbar + Raptor would use 1/3 of my total screen. (whole bottom 1/3 of my useful screen gone *grr*) Am I really the only one who is bothered by this?

And no - I don't want to put these on "autohide" that defeats the purpose of having a task bar in the first place. Then I could just use shortcut keys.
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Raptor - roadmap?
by Joergen Ramskov on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @01:05
Raptor looks quite interesting - how far along are the development? Is the plan to have something ready for KDE 4.1? Sooner? Later?
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Kicker
by Heller on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @03:01
Am I the only one who still use Kicker in KDE4 ? :)

Aniway, Raptor looks nice, that's sure !
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Saturday more beer
by Andre on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @03:36
On saturday the Belgium company imatix (remember xitami?) will give another beer party for Fosdem participants and Brussels geeks.

http://www.imatix.com/fosdem-2008

When?

Brussels, Saturday 23 February from 9pm (21h).
What, exactly?

A party held at the iMatix HotSpot, a warehouse on the wrong side of town that's been the scene of many heavy parties over the years. We invite all FOSDEM attendees to come and enjoy. The program includes live West African music and a great lineup of DJs. Belgian beer, snacks, and other drinks, compliments of iMatix. We love free software, and we love free beer!
Where is it?

Rue des Ateliers 13-15, 1080 Brussels, near metros Yzer and Comte de Flandres.
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NEPOMUK
by noob on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @04:38
Nepomuk is beeing advertised somehow as revolutionary. Can somebody explain to me in which way is it better than the years old Mac-Spotlight?
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raptor
by foo on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @11:33
All Kudos to raptor devs. Looks are that this will not only kick some serious Gnome/Windows butt, but Apples as well. And that's a lot folks.
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How about some Compositioning news?
by Max on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @14:37
There hasn't been ANY NEWS WHATSOEVER about NEW compositioning effects.

Could somebody please remedy that?

Kwin doesn't even have 1/2 the features of compiz fusion yet. An even they are years old now. When are you going to release new (useful) effects?
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