Mike Pilone has stepped up to the challenge of implementing gesture recognition for KDE. "KGesture uses libstroke to recognize definable gestures, then run an associated command. Using KDE's DCOP interface, KGesture can interact with applications already running, or launch new applications." You might be forgiven if, like me, you first thought this was a joke. KGesture works as advertised, and is almost as fun as the now discontinued KVoiceControl, but it does need a little more fuzzy logic before it becomes practical enough. I did manage to get it to work for simpler gestures -- I can draw an L-shape on my desktop and a dot.kde.org window will pop up. However, for more complex gestures such as a circle, it takes a little practice and patience to get right. With time, your help and feedback, KGesture is bound to improve. Download it here or view the screenshots (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).
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I'm assuming you're a non-native English speaker and don't realize how funny that sounds ....
Craig, you are a stupid fuck! You're not as smart as you pretend to be.
So I advise you to shut your face. Forgive me my rudeness, but half of the comments are
posted by Craig and there's not much interesting in it.
About Gnome Vs. KDE... There's no such thing. KDE rules over Gnome, Gnome rules over KDE.
The poll was most definately faked. The results are impossible.
Yes, it's a fact that KDE has more users, but that doesn't mean that this poll was unbiased.
I would estimate a number of 60% KDE users Vs 40% Gnome users.
Both window managers rock. KDE is like a female, nice looking, smooth... Gnome is male, more robust look, straight to the point.
Are you gay? You sound like it the way you describe gnome.
Craig
You're really a pissy li'll man aren't you?
You got nothing better to do?
Pathetic bitch.
Wait here's a poll:
WHO WANTS CRAIG BANNED FROM THIS FORUM?
I vote yes and you will soon notice how popular you are.
And fuck yourself in the ass with a broken bottle
.
craig:
- reports figures that are probably biased,
and does that twice. okay ,thats a (double)
mistake, i think he understood that already.
- stayed polite even after being flamed. okay
he didnot stay polite now, but neither would
i.
you:
- use offensive language.
- attack craig personally with NO reason.
its not because someone makes mistakes
he is a 'stupid fuck'
- also report figures just out of your thumb,
not even coming from a poll.
actually, your post (and the ban-craig post) on this already closed subject
was totally useless.
please keep this forum 'sympa', please don't make this forum slashdot II, and please show people
their mistakes in a polite way. everyone will enjoy
that.
thank you very much in advance
kervel
oh ... ignore my post. i wish there was a cancel feature here :)
Apparantly, Craig figured out how to Spam PHP-NUKE polls.
This slashdot post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/05/26/126251&cid=39
documents his trolling. He is giving KDE users a bad name.
The owner of www.pclinuxonline.com just emailed me and after reviewing the logs confermed all kde votes were real. However he brought the site down shortly after someone ran a script for gnome/enlightenment votes. Don't believe me ask him.
Craig
Yes, it's true.
I desagree with the Craig methods. However I don't think he is a cheater, as someones said without real proofs.
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There is another poll in http://freeos.com/
Now KDE 67%, Gnome 15 % others 18%.
Even in http://www.linuxmag-france.org a "GNU/Linux & Hurd Magazine", you have Gnome 46%, KDE 36%, others 22%
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I think that KDE is many more used that it is said in the Linux medias. Around 55-70%, and Gnome around 12-25 %.
The Linux medias want to be neutral. By being neutral, they distort the reality, they give equality between Gnome and KDE. But users choose and a big majority find that the better tool for their use is KDE.
I think that OS = kernel + desktop. So there are three OS in Linux : GNU/Linux (Gnome), KDE/Linux and Light Linux (Blackbox, Windowmaker, command line and so). Nowadays many medias speak about GNU/Linux, no one about KDE/Linux, however KDE/Linux is 3 x more used than GNU/Linux...
Very strange !
I don't think it is very important. Popularity is often snobed. The most important it the youth and the strenght of the KDE team, and the good logistic around, translations, communications and so. It's only a beginning, and great things are going on. Medias are often in late and someday they will discover some evidences...
Excuse me, I am out of topic, but I think it is interesting to - sometimes - have some distance.
In conclusion, I think that KDE is already more popular that it is said and that one day it will be interesting to use the word KDE/Linux, as (and not as...) GNU/Linux is used. Because there are several Linux realities. GNU/Linux is one of them, but it is not ours.
I also think that choosing a word like KDE/Linux (or Linux/KDE or KLinux) gives promotion for KDE. Words are important in our life...
And please, consider that recognition of differences doesn't mean intolerance. I hope that the several Linux realities will live in good terms, that any user may mix them and easily change for the better environment he feels. The first quality of Linux is to give the freedom of choice.
Well said
Hmmm....
You made up imaginary things (gnu/linux, kde/linux, klinux, gnome/linux) and the such... then you talked and argued with yourself about these new imaginary things.
Very nice. We need people with active imaginations in opensource.
Hmmm... Perhaps GNU/Linux is a new imaginary thing... However many guys are speaking about it, and not only by talking for themselves.
This GNU/Linux has some reality. Linux-KDE too, and for more users. It has now a reality a little similar to the Dos-Win 3.0/3.1 10 years ago (with modern features, of course).
GNU/Linux is recognized by the medias, not Linux-KDE... And we can see some irrealistic things, like some journalists saying that the Linux desktop is dead because Eazel is dead... What active imagination for such ignoring that beside GNU/Linux there is another project, a sort of shadow project without clear name, with a too narrow name ! The KDE desktop is already an essential component of our system and it is growing with more configuration tools. It is many more than a desktop...
In the facts, Linux-KDE is an alternative to GNU/Linux. Not still in the words... I hope that words will join the reality... (even if GNU/Linux exists without Qt tools, and KDE needs some GNU tools)
However I hope that no RMS will come to promote it ;-)... I hope that someday the KDE Team (at first) and/or the promotion team and/or the KDE League will go in this direction...
I see your point. So, maybe it should be called GNU/KDE/Linux. But, really, I think we should just simplify it by breaking it down to it's most unique denominator, Linux. It should just be called Linux. GNU ware isn't specific to linux, KDE ware isn't specific to Linux. This operating system is linux. There are many things that work to complete it, however... but, really, the system is just built on top of linux, and always has been built around it. Aggregating each of the names of new system components into the name may be fun, but it really complicates life and creates the false impression that linux is forking.
So how does it work ? Can I move my arms and interact with computer? I need more equipment for that.
That reminds me of the story of the guy who tried to fax a document from his computer by printing it out, holding it up to the screen, and pressing the 'quick-fax' key on his keyboard.
Naa, its using your mouse. You move your cursor in special patterns that you set and these trigger dcop signals.
Oh yes, you can kick your computer and it will power down ;=). And when you at graphical login you just have to smile and KDE will be chosen as your default desktop environment :)
very useful actually.
Why is voice control discontinued?
It's likely more important
well, i tried a few voice control programs under windows a few years ago, i really liked it from the start, i bought a new mike ... ,but after a while i
began to dislike it,computer made too much mistakes, and i always had to speak/shout in front of my computer, first it was funny, but later it became
annoying for me and for the people in my room,
it was more a .. toy, and look at windows, tons of programs are available, nobody uses them, soundblaster bundled voice assist with one of their cards, but stopped doing so after a while. so i think:
-when you want descent voice control, you need
huge amounts of
programming/linguistic experience -- not even the commercial world can bring them up apparently --, (human)
resources for a (maybe) boring task. i never saw the perfect voice recognition in commercial world,
i doubt it will be ever usefull in opensource world.
- even if you have 'the perfect voice control', everybody will probably say 'great' and use it a few times, but probably after a while, people will forget
about it.
Great Idea! Will it be possible to navigate in Konqueror (like "go back in history" or something) like in opera for windows? Its a really cool feature in opera and I miss it a lot in Konqueror