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Plasma: The Next-Generation KDE Environment Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-got-plasma-all-over-my-screen dept.

slashy writes, "MadPenguin has taken a quick look at Plasma, the next gen. KDE environment. 'Plasma is an ambitious project being pursued by the KDE 4 team which aims at providing a workflow-sensitive design of the user interface that improves productivity of an average KDE user. The focus is on improving the clarity and reducing the clutter present in today's desktops. The plasma development will bring together key contributors, such as the visual artists, usability experts, technology experts, programmers, and enthusiasts at a very early stage during the development process. This will enable them to create a new desktop environment that meets the requirements of novices and experts alike.'"

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  1. Redundant by Spad · · Score: 1, Funny

    The K Desktop Environment Environment, you say?

  2. Re:Sounds to me like a rip-off of Vista by kypper · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given that your nick is BushCheney, I'd say that's already happened ;)

  3. Re:New Project - Redo X-Windows by Andrewkov · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, let's replace it with DirectX running under Wine.

  4. What I want, part deux by MasterC · · Score: 2, Funny
    You know, I had a thoughtful and insightful list of maybe half-a-dozen things/comments about KDE I would want as a power user. Then KWin seg faulted on me and I had to restart X thus losing my comments.

    My list now consists of one things:
    • Fix KWin from seg faulting

    That would be super!
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  5. Re:Reducing clutter by TommydCat · · Score: 3, Funny
    Simply re-compiling a trivial GUI app from QT3 to QT4 will give noticable performance and memory usage improvement (even if you do not change the code at all).

    # emerge --update --newuse world

    ...and the Gentoo crowd goes wild!

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  6. Re:Reducing clutter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    # emerge --update --newuse world
    ...and the Gentoo crowd goes wild!

    Well, they have plenty of time to go wild now.

  7. Re:the grass is always greener by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those who want Gnome and KDE to stop doing parallel efforts and instead concentrate on a unified GUI for linux...

    And all you'd have to do is get the other few dozen GUI projects on board as well. In the meantime you can work on unifying Apple and Microsoft, a much easier task.

    KFG

  8. Re:Reducing clutter by Jesselnz · · Score: 4, Funny

    My friend's desktop: http://img166.exs.cx/img166/673/sp3220050209200910 7hz.jpg

  9. Re:Reducing clutter by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll settle for a middle ground: it just randomly picks things.

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  10. Re:Reducing clutter by nschubach · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's nice to see someone publicly displaying the use of cracks, roms and serial numbers. Oh, I suppose he owns all that software...my mistake.

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  11. Re:Reducing clutter by nschubach · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's the only reason I run Active Desktop at work. One icon. The Recycle Bin. The only reason I have that there is to remind me to empty it every night. If only I had a trash can icon on my garage door.

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  12. ./ style by aristolochene · · Score: 2, Funny

    anyone know if it runs on linux?

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  13. Re:A quick look? by Krondor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you spell 'vapourware'?

    Sure, no problem. Vaporware.

    (Yes I had to)

  14. Re:Reducing clutter by snoyberg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure... sure.. you "friend"

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