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KDE Announces Partner Network
jrepin writes "In the wake of the announcement of the first ever KDE powered tablet, quite a few interesting things are happening in the background. One of them is the formation of a professional Partner Network for devices such as the Vivaldi tablet. The Make Play Live Partner Program is designed to build and support a collaborative business and economic network. Members work together to provide comprehensive professional service and product offerings around Plasma Active and devices such as Vivaldi. Professional support options make it easier to convince potential parties, such as users, clients, customers and partners, bringing KDE software to a larger group of users. Nine organizations have already joined."
KDE should make it easy for the companies to change the Firefox search boxes and start pages so they could make extra revenue. Then bundle some advertising system inside the OS and we're looking at a better deal for the companies.
I want the ZaTab to run PlasmaActive not android!
January 29 The Spark Tablet was announced (later renamed to Vivaldi). Two months it was supposed to be on the market. Now, it's 2 months after that and it still isn't shipping...
I want the tablet, but hell if I know when I'll be able to buy one.
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Hopefully it won't have kmail2...
The first sentence seems pretty clear to me - it's a free software community. The section on organization says, "The financial and legal matters of KDE are handled by KDE e.V., which is a German non-profit organization, and help organizing the conferences and meetings of the community members." which also seems pretty clear.
And there's more. There is a lot to the article but it doesn't seem too confusing to me.
I'm a big KDE fan. I think they provide the best graphical desktop for linux, one of the better music players on any platform and I am a big fan of QT - specifically via PyQT and now PySide. I'm all for anything that keeps it all going.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Wrong place. KDE is Desktop Environment - same software category as LXDE, Gnome, etc
For information goto http://www.kde.org
KDE is a free software community, KDE Plasma Desktop is the desktop environment. It even says this on http://www.kde.org
one of the better music players on any platform
Amarok or Clementine?
I call it 'The Aristocrats'
KDE should set up a software ecosystem that refines all the software that comes default w/ KDE, including the Calligra Suite, the various K packages and so on. And do some major refining of certain apps, such as Kexi. That will enable them to attract mindshare, if what they have turns out to be really good, particularly for Plasma desktop.
Both KDE and Gnome are hardware-intensive desktops. There is a reason why Canonical switched to Unity. A KDE powered tablet? With KDE on a diet, maybe.
Please adopt KDE as the Ubuntu UI. Thanks. Please don't listen to the troll-lets and haters. KDE has a future because KDE doesn't despise its users and their wishes.
God, please no. Canonical did enough damage in the time Kubuntu was officially "supported" -- meaning sabotaged to get an inferior experience to openSUSE, Pardus, etc.
Kubuntu had its best release with the two developers assigned to other tasks and a handful of community members doing the work. Now with Blue Systems leading Kubuntu there might be a positive change in quality but let's see until 12.10.
Amarok or Clementine?
Clementine is not a KDE product. It was forked from KDE code (Amarok 1.4) but Clementine is independent.
Amarok is a KDE music player, Juk is another, and Bangarang is a multi-purpose media player that also plays and manages music.
Amarok is what I was referencing - guess I should have specified.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?