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KDE Releases Plasma Media Center 1.0

Posted by Unknown on from the ooo-shiny dept.

jrepin writes "KDE is proud to announce the first release (1.0.0) of Plasma Media Center. Built on Plasma and KDE technologies. Designed to offer a rich experience to media enthusiasts. KDE's Plasma Media Center (PMC) is aimed towards a unified media experience on PCs, Tablets, Netbooks, TVs and other devices. Plasma Media Center can be used to view images, play music or watch videos. Media files can be on the local filesystem or accessed with KDE's Desktop Search." The screenshots look OK. You have to build it yourself to try it (looks easy on Ubuntu but not Debian unstable because of a few missing dev packages).

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  1. Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just what I was looking for and it looks great on videos. Plasma technology really seams to be powerful and flexible. Why doesn't Ubuntu just use Plasma as base for their desktop. Anyways great job KDE!

    1. Re:Awesome by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Interesting

      They had Unity built on Qt, but I think it was just the 2D with no compositing fall-back mode. With Plasma and Qt, it should be trivial to make a Unity desktop shell with QML.

      Their new phone stack uses uses Qt and QML.

      I don't understand half using Gnome and using Qt at this point.

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  2. Gnome is now irrelevant. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We were checking out Debian Testing which seems to have kde4 as default.

    Holy crap is the desktop really great now. Kudos to the KDE devs and the QT folks for such an emazing environment. Looks like we will be switching our 400 desktops from Gnome to KDE4 now.

    Gnome is completely irrelevant now.

    1. Re:Gnome is now irrelevant. by Nerdfest · · Score: 3, Interesting

      You can actually kind of have the 'best' of both, using KDE to emulate the appearance and functionality of Gnome for the most part, but without its limits. I'm a recent KDE convert and am enjoying it quite a bit. I'm a little disappointed that so much atention in the desktop community is focused on Gnome and Unity these days.