KDE Rebrands, Introduces KDE Plasma Desktop

Jiilik Oiolosse writes "The KDE community has killed the term K Desktop Environment (previously the Kool Desktop Environment). 'KDE' had previously ambiguously referred to both the community, and the complete set of programs and tools produced by the KDE community which together formed a desktop user interface. This set of tools, including the window manager, panels and configuration utilities, which KDE terms a 'workspace,' will now be shipped under the term 'KDE Plasma Desktop.' This allows KDE to ship a separate workspace called 'Plasma Netbook,' and independently market the various KDE applications as usable in any workspace, whether it be the Plasma Desktop, Windows, or XFCE."

Comments

SYNERGY!

[Frosty Piss]

Now they need to add SYNERGY!

So if they've changed the name...

[BlindSpot]

kDoes kthis kmean kwe kcan kstop kputting kk kbefore keverything know?

Re:Clarity?

[vlm]

If I want to walk a windows user through changing the desktop resolution, it's easy. Good luck doing those in linux.

ssh -X into the machine, and run:

xdpyinfo | grep dimensions

I have no idea why "a low end non power user" would know or care what their display resolution is. Its like complaining that linux is not ready for the desktop because a sterotypical grannie would have a hard time setting up a hard-realtime CNC controller. Who cares?

I don't print much. Didn't even own a printer from 1995 thru 2009. Based on my recent experiences, seems that changing the default printer is much simpler than understanding the concept of even having a default printer, or the concept of being able to print to multiple printers.