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Eyes on Karamba

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-puns-ahoy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "dot.kde.org posted an interview with Hans Karlsson, the author of the now pretty popular KDE clone of Samurize, Karamba, which is responsible for the recent craze at kdelook.org. An interesting interview well worth a read which shows that even today most open source programs still start as tiny hobby projects after all."

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  1. I'll go ahead and say it.. by Nate+Fox · · Score: 3, Funny

    eyekaramba!

  2. Eye Candy by geders · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah, everyone's constant search for better eye candy to fill their desktops...

    1. Re:Eye Candy by mniskin · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yeah, I kinda dig the eye-candy. I figure that looking at my desktop all day entitles me to that little indulgence :).

  3. rm -R /opt/gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
  4. Misread by schnits0r · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else misread it to say "Eyes on Karma"?

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  5. Eyes on Karamba? by JHromadka · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that a Cinco de Mayo joke? :D

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  6. Re:Not to be complaining by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought your TLA was AFU until I realized you were talking about Closed Source Software, not Cascading Style Sheets.

  7. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  8. Re:Karamba by JoeWalsh · · Score: 3, Funny

    For example, one of its features is the ability to read headlines from news sources such as Slashdot. While its nice to see the headlines right on your desktop, how useful is it? If you want to read the whole story you have to fire up a browser anyways to read it. So whats the point?

    I agree with you. I've never found a use for headline display programs. As you pointed out, you still have to fire up your browser if you want to read any of the articles.

    What we really need is a service that downloads whole articles to the desktop. Something that, when run, would go out to Slashdot and download all the articles from the front page. Maybe with some checkboxes on which additional categories you wanted stuff downloaded from (Apple, YRO, etc.)

    And then, it could be expanded to download stories from other sites, like cnn.com and nytimes.com and so on. That would be cool.

    I should go start a Sourceforge project for this thing. But what to call it? Let's see . . . it sort of turns the web into a broadcast experience, so maybe "Broadcast?" No, that's not quite right.

    Oh, I know! It's like broadcasting, but it's point-to-point, so why not call it "Pointcast!" Yeah! What a cool name!

    Welp, I'm off to start my pointcast.sourceforge.net project. I sure hope no one beats me to this great idea, though!

  9. Re:SuperKaramba by mabinogi · · Score: 2, Funny

    do?....

    what is this "do" you speak of?

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