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International OSS Desktop Conference aKademy 2004

Posted by michael on from the kde-r0xx0rs dept.

Torsten Rahn writes "The KDE Project is pleased to announce the successful completion of the KDE Community World Summit ("aKademy 2004") in Ludwigsburg (Germany) taking place from August 20th to 29th. With more than 230 KDE core developers, usability and accessibility experts, translators, editors and artists participating, the event is expected to have a huge and lasting impact on the next major releases of the leading Linux and Unix desktop environment. In addition, 270 visitors from the KDE user base and from other Free Software projects brought the total number of attendees to 500. The international participants, coming from 5 continents, took part in 65 talks, 10 full-day tutorials and numerous BoF-meetings over the course of 10 days. Thanks to this huge turnout and the numerous activities, the event evolved into the largest conference ever held that focused on a single open source desktop environment."

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    Unintuitive GUI and it is ugly for file sharing.

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    And over and above this it should have a small footprint (gnome guys, I'm looking at you, wait.. and you KDE).

    The only justification for all this other bullshit they put in is the ability to script macros properly.

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