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KDE 4 Screenshots

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the eye-candy dept.

carlmenezes writes "Screenshots of the upcoming and much talked about KDE 4 have appeared at Planet Diaz. They include screenshots of the control panel, system tray, tabbed views, music and mail views, plus a mockup or two. I don't know what the Gnome guys are up to, but KDE is starting to look seriously cool."

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  1. More than just a mockup or two by strider44 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can anyone tell if there are any actual screenshots in that bunch? I'm having a bit of trouble finding them.

    1. Re:More than just a mockup or two by vdboor · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Actually, it seams some people are creating a hype with mockups from KDE4 Brainstorm at kde-look.

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  2. Re:It looks cool, so it is cool? by aussie_a · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How a program looks is often indicative on the time and care that went into the program itself. If it looks like absolute shit, there probably wasn't much time that went into it, or the people didn't know what they were doing. If it looks great, it MIGHT be good.

  3. Re:That's all well and good... by vga_init · · Score: 4, Interesting
    For me it's always been the exact opposite. Back in the day, when KDE and GNOME were budding projects, it just seemed to me that GNOME "felt" right. It seemed to have the right level of flexibility, it was relatively good looking, and gave me a satisfied, functional feeling.

    Lately times have been changing.

    I still think GNOME is ahead in terms of "look and feel." KDE is usually touted as being eye candy, but you just can't convince me that GNOME doesn't look better. GNOME still feels comfortable to me, so what about it drove me to use KDE, my preferred desktop at the moment?

    Functionality. Sometimes I get sick of looking at KDE, but I keep on using it because it does everything I like. I get to have windows that snap together as I resize them, a set of graphical tools that can actually be configured, a file manager that isn't almost useless, etc.

    My largest complaint against GNOME right now is their philosophy that more features means less usability. Even if that were true, I don't see how that justifies dropping features to improve usability. Give me something slightly more challenging to use but does everything that I want.

  4. Re:sources? by LaurenBC · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's worth noting one of the screenshots has the word 'fake' in it, and to quote an anonymous poster on the forum these were posted on
    'I don't want to burst any bubbles, but I just thought I'd mention that these are certainly not screenshots of KDE in developement. These are just ideas posted as mockup, some of which have been around for a long time'

    hmph.
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  5. Re:That's all well and good... by vga_init · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I just pine away for the old GNOME where apps came with a healthy set of options instead of a insufficient few that don't exactly represent the settings I want or need. The configuration editing tool helped me to unearth a lot of hidden settings, and it lead me to becoming slightly more satisfied, but it didn't exactly do everything that I wanted.

    As for things like "focus follows mouse" and the like, I used to be an avid user of features like that. Not in KDE, but in GNOME and every other window manager. They can be quite useful, but I kind of got over that and settled into "click to focus." But whatever other people prefer is cool with me.

    I think nautilus is pretty good, but for some reason I'm not very fond of using it. It seems to get in my way, and I don't like that feeling, but I do believe you when you say that I can change settings to fix it for my tastes. Of course, I still maintain that konqueror is a fine file manager in its own right.

    Also, I find that you complaint about the configuration menus and whatnot valid. KDE takes a bit of customization, but I usually just sit down with a new install and go through the control panel until I'm satisfied. Most users shouldn't have to do this. So far the way the options are grouped together and how they present themselves in the UI is a bit of a mess. The latest incarnation of control panel suits my tastes less than the original idea, but hopefully they sort that out.

  6. Cultural differences? by Nahooda · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You know Slashdot is american based when you read all the negative comments about KDE.

    Over here in Germany it's enormously popular.

    Must be some kind of clash of civilizations...

    I'm using it, too, as I like the integration of apps and window manager. On the negative side, the high level of integration can be security problem as Windows shows.

    -DBS

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