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- HerbertScrunge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Since most KDE4 apps will run on Windows, it's not the end of the world :)
- webmathwiz1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21and will spend 400 per computer for junk...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+22To bad dumb ass schools will buy the kids vista
- mvent2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Calm down. You obviously haven't seen the other blog posts about KDE 4, for example the unified progress monitor for every KDE application, and thats just one thing off the top of my head posted not too long ago.
Plus I bet your ol' Pop is getting quite sick of having to reinstall Windows and search the net for his sound card driver. :) - snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10and what is an ass-school, anyway? ;)
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7KDE4 will be great. Firstly they are moving to D-BUS instead of DCOP and there will be much singing and dancing as GNOME apps can now interface smoothly with KDE apps. Take the unified process manager mentioned above. GNOME has a similar project in development called Mathusalem. Since both use D-BUS it will be much easier to make the plugins work in both systems so my handful of GNOME apps will be spotted by my KDE desktop process manager and visa versa. Also expect to see a Firefox plugin that integrates with the same system.
Secondly Phonon will finally mean death to Artsd. Phonon itself will make integration with GStreamer much easier so that silly trifles like the Fluendo plugins will work natively with KDE apps like Amarok. This is needed because GStreamer has no API stability. It will allow KDE devs to write apps to a stable interface then just plug Phonon and GStreamer together. It will also make porting to other architectures (like maybe DirectSound) much easier.
KDE4 will run on Windows so we can take people that much closer to OSS purity to make the gap smaller when they finally click that start button for the last time.
Finally they are getting rid of the K obsession. People need to realise that Kalling every app 'something with a K' makes it impossible to distinguish between things. I Kan't use my desktop properly and it isn't Kool at all. I keep Kliking on the wrong iKons. - snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8T-O-O
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5My granny plays tux race.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Relevant: http://www.xkcd.com/c37.html
- mikewhite314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Kalzium and KmPlot are both great apps and it looks like they're improving.
- yenster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What I'm hoping will make it in to KDE 4 is a good, solid version of Craig D's Font Installer/Manager (see an early version here: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=39052 ). In particular, this will be keenly appreciated by graphic artists with huge font collections; even Mac OSX and WinXP lack decent built-in font organizers/managers.
- Julolidine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2As a chemist and a Linux user, I must admit that nothing even comes close to ChemOffice for doing structures. Kalzium certainly looks very nice, but I will have to see if its anything other than a reference tool, otherwise its form sans substance.
The three holdups for me ditching MS entirely were:
Photoshop
ChemOffice
Outlook
Thank god ChemOffice runs via wine, and now with the 'portable' photoshop CS2 you can run via wine as well. Outlook...well..... - asg1290, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Julolidine
If Outlook is your last holdout try Crossover Office 6. They just added support for Outlook 2003. I'm using it in the office to connect to my Exchange server and it works very well. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Ya sure , Your grand ma gonna piss off when she is not able to play her videos because she doesn't have TPM or what ever ***** chip is not there on that motherboard.
- snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2This will certainly be another step toward world-wide acceptance of Linux... it's getting closer all the time!
I, for one, welcome our Linux-enabled... ahh, never mind. - jimtb, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1You and your grandma can play mine minesweeper...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -27/+3Oooooo. This is just the kind of solid gold nuggets Linux needs to breakthrough on the desktop. I don't know how many times my Grandma has wanted to find out the atomic structure of Cadmium. Or ol' Pop always getting in a tizzy because he has a graphing equation problem that was on the tip of his tongue.
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