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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. Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Plasma screenshots, mockups, developer blogs and Plasma Project homepage.

    SimpleKDE screenshots and homepage.

    All links courtesy Mirrordot.org.

    1. Re:Mirrors by Mornelithe · · Score: 5, Informative

      If those are the appropriate links, then the things listed as "plasma screenshots" are actually mockups.

      As far as I know (and I've been following this pretty closely), there is no plasma yet. It's still separated superkaramba, kicker and kdesktop, which they are now porting to Qt 4, and will later combine and alter into what will be plasma. Thus, there are no screenshots, as they're not far enough along yet.

      There's lots of interesting mockups at kde-artists.org, though.

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  2. Re:bloat for KDE too? by KDR_11k · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many people think "hey, wouldn't [Feature] be nice to have?" and implement it. As more and more features get implemented, some of them constantly eating performance, the ressource usage of the system increases. At some point you need a freaking 3GHz GPU just to run a text editor. That's what they call bloat, inappropriately high ressource usage.

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  3. Re:Server go boom? by Vario · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://mirrordot.org/ has some of it already cached. Try this link: http://mirrordot.org/stories/352335d7edc4f5541c0e9 bfc28ab7cd0/index.html

  4. What about Slicker? by AceJohnny · · Score: 5, Informative

    Plasma somehow reminds me of Slicker. It was a great idea for replacing Kicker, and IMHO was a nicely innovative one too. I mean, look at these nice mockups.

    Unfortunately, these are just mockups, and it seems the project has stalled for more than a year. Slicker could use a little attention, don't you think? So if you have some spare time and a love for moving the Linux desktop in cool directions, how about giving it a try? :)

    PS: I'm totally unrelated to the project, just disappointed that this cool idea is rusting

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  5. Re:Plasma looks like ass! by Mornelithe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jesus, those are just mockups by one artist of his ideas. There are 2 or 3 other artists that regularly post on kde-artists.org, and a whole bunch of other people also contributing ideas.

    Calm down a little and don't jump to conclusions. Do you really think that Plasma will only have one theme, and that single theme will be pure monochrome? Making judgments of the final product based on one guy's preliminary ideas is ridiculous.

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  6. Re:"overbloated"? by stilborne · · Score: 4, Informative

    *sigh* ever since this year's GUADEC i've heard this fallacy more and more. Red Hat defaults to GNOME, but also ships KDE. SUSE defaults to KDE and offers GNOME as a choice. NLD ships both and you choose. Debian ships both and you choose. Ubuntu has GNOME and KDE flavours. Mandriva defaults to KDE and offers GNOME as a choice. Xandros, Linspire, Knoppix and Slackware provide KDE only. the list goes on.

    as you can see, despite some people loving to claim from the roof tops that GNOME is the default desktop in Distroland, it's a falsehood.