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Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE

Posted by Soulskill on from the there-are-little-people-in-my-computer dept.

FrankKarlitschek writes "At last year's KDE Conference Akademy, the vision of the Social Desktop was born and first presented to a larger audience. The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the power of online communities and group collaboration to desktop applications and the desktop shell itself. One of the strongest assets of the Free Software community is its worldwide group of contributors and users who believe in free software and who work hard to bring the software and solutions to the mainstream. A core idea of the Social Desktop is connecting to your peers in the community, making the sharing and exchanging of knowledge (PDF) easier to integrate into applications and the desktop itself. One of the ideas was to place a widget on the desktop where users can find other KDE users in the same city or region, making it possible to connect to these people; to contact them and collaborate. If a user is starting KDE for the first time, he has questions. At the moment, a lot of the support for KDE users is provided through forums and mailing lists. Users have to start up a browser and search for answers for their questions or problems. The community is relatively loosely connected; it is spread all over the web, and it is often hard to verify the usefulness and accuracy of the information found somewhere out on the web. Although it works relatively well for experienced users, beginners often get lost."

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  1. What??? by hwyhobo · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it's as useful as the slide presentation in TFA is informative, then it will be as eloquent as twitter and as disciplined as USENET.

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  2. Re:The Widget by FrankieBaby1986 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they should add moderation and mod points like slashdot to try to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

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  3. Re:Experts Exchange by sgbett · · Score: 2, Funny

    $10/month != No Money
    $120/year != No Money
    $3600/30 year career (or should that be 'job' as you appear to be relying on experts exchange) != No Money

    Experts my ass... they should rename it ameturegenderadvice.com

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  4. Re:Experts Exchange by sgbett · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah, real matuer comment, maybe next time learn to type.

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