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Plasma: The Next-Generation KDE Environment Review
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.'"
Which, in many ways, is a rip-off of OS X.
...Redesign the *DESKTOP* you say...??!!!
p -software-here.
So, are they going to get it right this time? What with all the artists and all, eh?
Or, are they just dicking around again, and in 5 years they'll wind up redoing the entire thing because whoops, whoah, that thing we did in 2006? Whoah what a piece of crap THAT was, who thought THAT would work, sheesh.
Sorry I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. But come on what the HELL people blah blah blah desktop blah blah blah redesign blah blah blah usability blah blah blah icons blah blah blah.....and all it ever amounts to is some kids playing a shell game with menu items and toolbars. The result? I gotta do 3 more clicks to open my document and now I get to my email this way instead of that way and wow the control panel is over here now and gee there are 20 more options and 4 more tabs on this "Options" dialog box and I can choose between "fade-in" and "slide" for all right-click menus and would you look at that I can do URLs right in the file system browser now and oh yeah I can FINALLY make all my windows 63% transparent. I've been *waiting* for them to get around to that! Yeah baby, look at this, *THIS* time, we got it right! No fooling this time! Really!
That's life in the mass produced modern world I guess. It's just bits on a hard drive somewhere, you don't like 'em, wipe 'em out and start all over again, engage hype machine, tinker around for a few years, and then down the road decide new version was just another piece of disposable crap, wipe out the bits and start over again. Total cost: $0.00. Total worth: $0.00.
I hope you folks are happy with it.
Me, I'm already bored to tears.
Ha-ha, my vword:ashman
PS not trollin on KDE. Could easily do a search+replace KDE-->Microsoft-->Apple-->Insert-your-pile-of-cra
Remember XP's desktop cleanup wizard, which attempted to help people remove things from their desktops that they didn't use often?
Maybe you're not familiar with the functionality. The desktop cleanup wizard removes icons that are used often.