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KDE's future: Plasma & SimpleKDE

Posted by Hemos on from the the-evolving-world dept.

A reader writes: "KDE continues to grow. Early screenshots, mockups, and developer blogs show that the new Plasma Project (KDE 4.x branch) will bring innovative approaches to desktop computing. On the other hand, the very first screenshots of SimpleKDE, an unofficial fork of KDE, were meant to be a response to those who criticise KDE as being overbloated."

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  1. "Nothing for you to see here..." by ThinkingInBinary · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Nothing for you to see here, please move along.

    See, Slashdot agrees that GNOME is better! ;-)

    (Please note the above comment was a joke...)

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  2. Re:Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's CDE, only uglier!

    Who'd have thought it was possible? Way to go, KDE!

  3. Re:KDE Fork ... by Com2Kid · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    • As far as I know of my personal experience of young (who said n00b :p ?) KDE developer, KDE is not so bloated.


    Listen, I tried total immersion in a KDE based environment for 6 months straight. No Windows at all.

    A few weeks ago I had to go back to my Windows 2003 system, and you know what?

    SO MUCH MORE FREAKING PRODUCTIVE. Programs start up faster, windows appear faster, loading an explorer window is no longer a 2 or 3 second action. I push a button, my window is there!

    When running KDE, X eats 36% of my CPU just drawing my screen.

    Window's doesn't use much of anything.

    (And on a separate note: FUCK Nvidia for dropping support for my video card and FUCK ati for not supporting my OTHER video card!)
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