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KDE 4.1 Plasma: Enlarge your panel

notmart.org — An exciting Plasma feature, fresh from Plasma developer blog: easier panel configuration, including vertical and horizontal resizing, make it exactly how you want, even an insane layout. There is also an ogg video to show you the new panel configuration method.

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binarysemaphore, on 05/18/2008, -3/+25Damn..these spam emails have spoiled me..First time I read "Enlarge your P..."
- noseeme, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Oh man, I just got a raging panel.
mazza558, on 05/18/2008, -2/+14Wow, the Plasma devs are impressing me more and more every day.
Kingoftherings, on 05/18/2008, -3/+2Awesome, I never could stand how big the Panel was.
- dualscreenman, on 05/18/2008, -0/+4You can already change the vertical size of the Panel in KDE 4.0.4.
  - mazza558, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2Except you'd lose half of the clock text.
  - iRelinquish, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1so true
PFS1, on 05/18/2008, -0/+8If you're interested in this, be sure to check out these other screencasts that didn't make it to front page when they were posted a few days ago:
http://nowwhatthe.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-videos. ...

It shows a lot more of the upcoming features of KDE 4.1, including some great new plasma functionality, including theming, GHNS and desktop zooming.
- dualscreenman, on 05/19/2008, -0/+4He re-uploaded the videos in better quality and found more video mirrors:
  http://nowwhatthe.blogspot.com/2008/05/now-in-bett ...
DeviateSeptum, on 05/19/2008, -7/+2Still hasn't reversed my opinion of KDE4. My thoughts are that KDE4 should have tried to duplicate the look-n-feel of KDE3. The new Vista-like feel is terrible. We liked the old look-n-feel. Being able to resize things like the menu is great and all but why not give us the kicker that we liked and let us resize it?
- dualscreenman, on 05/19/2008, -1/+9*sigh* This is getting old.
  
  Black theme != Vista. I guess all black-based themes that ever existed before Vista must be Vista copycats too?
  Find or make a theme with your favorite look and feel if you so desire. KDE 4.1 also makes that extremely easy.
  
  "Being able to resize things like the menu is great and all but why not give us the kicker that we liked and let us resize it?"
  That's what they're doing here-- giving you the ability and functionality that Kicker had. Yet there are still complaints even as the Plasma panel approaches feature parity with Kicker. Kicker was an almost unmaintainable tangle of code, and the new framework laid with the 4.0 release gives the developers more room for improvement than porting/maintaining Kicker would have ever given them.
- Protoss, on 05/19/2008, -1/+4If you don't like what they did, they still have the 3.x branch right? Aren't they going to support both branches for at least a little bit, until KDE4 is feature complete?
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 05/19/2008, -1/+5Just like for now on till the end of time if anyone ever uses brushed metal in a theme, they are ripping off Apple.
  ...sad...
hockeyfighter09, on 05/19/2008, -9/+8Anyone else read the title as "KDE 4.1 Plasma: Enlarge your Penis!"
- ptFoe, on 05/19/2008, -0/+4no you are just conscious about it
  - hockeyfighter09, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2It's not the size mate, it's how you use it. :)
- badassninja, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2I'm sure it will do that as well tho.
n0odles, on 05/19/2008, -0/+8ME WANT!
DontThinkSo, on 05/19/2008, -2/+2... they wanted to make it BIGGER?

I kid, I kid.
MacSuxWindozSux, on 05/19/2008, -0/+6Makes Ubuntu's Gnome theme look a decade old.
But that's an unpopular thing to say.

KDE4:
http://www.notmart.org/images/whackypanels.png
http://www.petesodyssey.org/files/kde4screenshot3. ...

Ubuntu:
http://www.addventures-online.co.uk/assets/images/ ...

Still the KDE shot looks screwed up I don't like how text is cropped and faded, looks poorly planned. But it's a customized layout.
- hockeyfighter09, on 05/19/2008, -4/+3Umm...that Gnome screenshot is really dated, of course its gonna look bad compared to KDE 4. If you want an even comparison you should have gotten a shot of the current gnome desktop to compare with KDE 4. Gnome has come a long way since that screenshot you posted in that link.
  - MacSuxWindozSux, on 05/19/2008, -0/+4That's Gnome 2.22 the latest release.
    - hockeyfighter09, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Are you sure we are looking at the same image? That looks nothing like 2.22 to me, looks more like 2.14 or 2.16 to me. :
    - yetAnotherCroc, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Yeah, With the ugliest theme you could possibly find. Come on. There are nicer thmemes to e had. Even as default themes.
chetanthaker, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1This story has been sticking around in the Upcoming topics since yesterday.
shanesemler, on 05/19/2008, -2/+3Just what I want, an even bigger panel in KDE4.
asskicker32, on 05/19/2008, -0/+6I LOVE KDE.
talonstriker, on 05/19/2008, -4/+1Oh god, they're not going to get rid of the stupid borders that popup all over the place. Its cool the first few hours then it starts getting old and annoying. Additionally, I didn't any options to turn that off. Looks like I'm going to stick with KDE3.
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