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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We didn't do the recording ourselves, the google pr ppl first had to approve everything, then the google ppl worked very hard to get it online asap (so that became googlevideo) and now we have the source, so I believe franz is working very hard to get ogg's online right now. Won't be long until he blogs about it, I suppose...
Is there a way to actually download the entire video? I don't like these streams....
Try this:
http://pastebin.com/f7a71c2a
useful comment but it ruins the formatting of the page (the URL line doesn't break in Konqueror)
I second this. Thanks to the preposter
thanks for posting this..
Quick question: where exactly does this download to?
It will download it to the current directory.
well, unfortunately this download is interrupted for me every time, and wget can't continue it (with the correct flags) for some reason... so i'm still waiting for some decent downloadable format.
why google videos do not offer a downloadable format ? i think one of youtube/gvideo allowed that before...
If you have a flash player then the video will be saved in /tmp, under a name like /tmp/FlashRfFkIG . So you can load the google video page, pause the video, wait for it to be fully downloaded, and then copy that file somewhere else (it gets deleted when you close the browser window or navigate to another page). It's "flv" format, which you can play with e.g. mplayer.
There are other ways, but I found this one to be the most practical and universal (works with all websites).
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.
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 ;)
Sonnet is in kdelibs, and it works e.g. for spell checking in forms in konqueror, but... I don't know whether the heck the control center module to enable it went !? On my desktop machine I've configured it before, it still works (though with quite some problems in the highlighting module), but I can't seem to see the kcm on my laptop.
And yes, it is largely unmaintained, though Laurent has been fixing up some GUI bits, and IIRC some new guy considered picking it up.
Me too. It's neither in KDE 4.0 nor in my SVN build from earlier this day (checked with `kcmshell4 --list`).
http://franz.keferboeck.info/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=632
who could though that !!!
I can't believe that he is so young. he looks like a very pleasant guy though :)
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.
You can delete the present Kickoff Menu (which is just a Plasmoid) then open the add widget window (right click on desktop) and drag and drop the clasical menu directly from there to the taskbar.
The taskbar and Plasma do not have all the configuration possiblities that Kicker and KDesktop had so we are kinda limited for now. The additional features will come soon though.
To get back your Firefox icon you have to use this little tool in right corner at the top to zoom out the desktop then you can move it to where it belongs and then zoom in back. I think that that will also get fixed.
I hope that I helped a bit.
Old menu comes with plasma extragear, I don't know if everybody thinks of installing those before complaining here.
I usually mention that but I forgot this time since I take it for granted.
The old menu is in kdebase-workspace actually.
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?!
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.
are you in love with aaron?
Who isn't?
Seriously!!
Not just him, the whole KDE/Qt/trolltech team!!
This video is amazing!!
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.
how did anyone tolerate listening to that kid kyle. wow shut up get off the stage!
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.
you're crazy, no.. krazy.
Yea probably!!!
The KDE 4x bug bit me!!!
Big time..