eweek.com — The free software Linux desktop KDE 4.1 advances the KDE Project's goals of cross-platform support and helps make the user interface more attractive. The KDE Project looked to Apple as an example of the importance of an attractive UI.
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zwaldowskiAug 3, 2008
Actually, that is possible. Just look at Blackbox for Windows; it totally does window managing. KDE would just need their own compositor for Win32, a la DWM.
kwilliamAug 3, 2008
Firefox on Linux feels like a Windows application that has been ported and dressed to look like a Gnome application (which sucks because I use KDE). IMHO. It's probably because FF does it's own thing with XUL that it doesn't feel like it "fits". Maybe I'd feel better if Firefox got some D-Bus support. I'd LOVE it if they simply made a Qt4 interface, or made it's GTK widgets work perfectly with the Qt4-GTK engine so Firefox could use the KDE4 Oxygen style.
HowIsBabbyFormedAug 3, 2008
didn't tech geeks actually build OSX? durron your defense, though, some tech geeks DO settle for fugly, gimmicky interfaces and just don't seem to have a clue
maninaliftAug 4, 2008
Actually, yes. Konqueror and Dolphin (the two main KDE file managers) do run on windows. <a class="user" href="http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation#Package_status_and_contents">http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/In ...</a>
Closed AccountAug 4, 2008
man... I didn't know QT had this amazing 'hardware' that you mention that gives you cross platform implementations of your code...is it like fairy machine? If you know ANYTHING of Qt and GTK you should know that QT right now is FAR ahead of GTK, hence the reason for this: <a class="user" href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080714-gnome-3-0-officially-announced-and-explained.html">http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080714-gnom ...</a>
ilgazAug 6, 2008
Please tell it to those 60 years old grandmoms switching from Windows to OS X. They must be missing something :)