KDE's future: Plasma & SimpleKDE

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."

Comments

Mirrors

[Anonymous Coward]

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

SimpleKDE screenshots and homepage.

All links courtesy Mirrordot.org.

Re:Mirrors

[Mornelithe]

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.

Re:Server go boom?

[Vario]

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

What about Slicker?

[AceJohnny]

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