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KDE's Plasma desktop project still gaining ground

linux.com — KDE started the Plasma project two years ago hoping to inject some life into an outdated desktop interface that some said was, well, boring. Since Plasma's Web site hadn't been updated in a while, it looked the the project was DOA. While it's true that there's still plenty of work to be done, over 12,000 lines of code have already been written.

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  • schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14Videos, for those who have not seen Plasma:

    http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/second-plasma-screen-cast-appears-randr-12-lands-in-kde/
    http://blog.ruphy.org/?p=11
  • mrwoody, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Looking forward to test it.
    Also look at this:
    http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/06/plasmaprogress_21.html

  • renegadeafk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I will definately be trying linux again when KDE 4 comes out.
  • schotty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4What turned you away? Not being a dick, just curious.
  • MWeather, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4KDE4 packages are in the Kubuntu repository. Not sure if Plasma is in there yet, though. There is a separate repo with more up to date packages also, see the kubuntu main page for details.
  • superstoned, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Cool article. And I just saw one of the first screenshots with the now-default oxygen style in this blog: http://uwolfer.fwo.ch/blog/2007/06/22/krdc-progress/

    Man, am I looking forward to Akademy, and see all this work going on live ;-)
  • renegadeafk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Mainly some hardware incompatibilities, software availability. I had been using ubuntu for a while and liked it, I also liked PCLOS alot and in my messing around with it I borked the install and just decided to use the drive as storage for the time being and wait because there's some cool things I see coming (Gutsy, OpenSuSE 10.3, KDE4) that I am interested in trying. I don't like KDE3 that much and the only audio player that works with all my music is amarok which is pretty slow in Gnome.
  • phjr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Yeah, I would like to see some beta!
  • eean, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Indeed. See you there!
  • minastirth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Looks like the site is experiencing the "digg" effect :)
  • clos, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4plasma + compiz/beryl fushion = cream my pants
  • 2kude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1No need, the future versions of KWin are going to have built-in compositing, with more features.
  • yaazz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1pics or it didn't.... isn't..happening?
  • mrwoody, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Stop complaining... They have a roadmap:
    http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Roadmap
  • mrBitch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0" ... A variety of systems for displaying desktop widgets exist beyond KDE's Plasma, but Seigo expresses only moderate interest in getting Plasma to interoperate with them.
    He says he would like to see support for loading HTML/CSS Mac OS X Dashboard widgets in Plasma... "

    now THAT would be so cool ( especially for widget developers ) ...
  • Nicksname1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Can't wait til its on Kubuntu
  • Andrew67, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I think the KDE4 release schedule mentions the stream of betas starting on June 25th, so keep those fingers crossed!
  • texnofobix, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I've been a fan of KDE since 2.0. And it keeps getting better.
  • Andrew67, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The KDE Commit Digests (announced at dot.kde.org among other KDE news) have been including pictures and (more importantly) videos of the new Plasma elements as they are getting implemented.
    (Latest Digest: http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-06-17/ )
  • myklm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Thats sound good!
    Linux native installer for "The Witcher"game: http://www.petitiononline.com/7730722/petition.html
  • Andrew67, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Oops, looking at the roadmap it appears to be July 25th...
  • Andrew67, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0And the fact that KWin is a component of KDE should guarantee even better integration with plasma.
  • frenchi, on 10/11/2007, -5/+112,00 lines of code? That doesn't mean anything. My final project for my graphics class my senior year of college was about 12,000 lines of code, that was written in 6 weeks by 2 guys. I'd be surprised if they get it done with less than 150, 000 lines of code.. i.e. a few more years.
  • Visceral, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Bla bla bla. They've been chattering about this forever as the killer feature of KDE. Whatever, stop talking and finish it, the rest of the world keeps moving on while you stroke yourselves over this vapor.

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