KDE 4 is Gonna Rock

avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

Take a look at this screenshot!

http://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/clanky/kratky/kde4-plasma-2.png

Best looking desktop I've ever seen.

silk.odyssey · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 54

hmm looks interesting

widremann · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 1314

Too bad the powers that be want to kill off KDE in favor of the crapathon that is GNOME.

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Interesting maybe. To me this looks like they just threw together some eye candy without looking at how people would actually use the proposed(?) new features. I for one hope that the current look and feel wil at least be an option.

crudh · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject:

Looks like a mockup to me?

Sangeki · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 186

No one knows yet how KDE 4 will look.

This Screenshot is just a basic concept. (and it doesn't look that fascinating IMHO)
I'm (nowadays) a pretty big Fan of KDE and I'm sure KDE 4 will rock but it's realy to far off to have anything to discuss now.

And just because Novell makes GNOME the default Desktop on all it's product's doesn't mean that they could kill KDE... :roll:

michelle778 · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 73

It looks nice, really, but it doesn't look very usebale or easy on your hardware ressources...
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avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

I love eye candy, but KDE really isnt a great choice for slower systems. If I have a < 600 mhz computer on my hands, Xfce is the solution.

oddie · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 49 Location: int9h

[dreaming sigh]
If they would implement one day something `easy-to-useable' for modular installation like split-ebuilds...
[/dreaming sigh]
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Varean · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:52 am Post subject:

A very nice early concept shot. I look forward to what is will look like in a few months. (And don't forget the new features!)
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Fenster · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:54 am Post subject:

Looks pretty, promising...and unusable. I know I'd go insane using a GUI such as that.
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Ivan Reche · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 26

Looks terrible to me. Waste of desktop space and resources.

WMII works fine for me!

But there are a lot of others WM or DE that I enjoy: GNOME, XFCE4, Window Maker, WMI...

The only ones I really don't like is KDE and Afterstep. But it's just my opinion!

Q-collective · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2071

Quite a nice concept

frilled · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:36 am Post subject:

This looks even worse then Gnome in terms of wasting desktop real estate ...

No matter what I do, I always return to something light. XFCE(4), mostly.

I really tried to like KDE. It didn't work. There's great potential in there. Especially the kio_slaves are simply great. fish://someone@someserver is ingenious. But it only works for KDE apps, of course. Wich is point where it utterly fails. KDE is very separatistic in nature. Other DEs are more open (one thing I especially like about XFCE - you can swap out every component for something else). Besides that, KDE does a lot of nice things, but it basically tries to re-invent all the mistakes that windoze made years ago. No way to go for me. And it's quite crashy. Even if I disregard kmail (which is the utmost unstable application I must have seen in my whole life) lots of KDE apps crash from time to time. Fortunately, krusader and kate work quite reliably, making them a good thing to work with in a *nux network. I use them from time to time from XFCE/*box, too, even though it takes ages to load the KDE environment. But I can't really remember any XFCE component *ever* crashing on me, not since Version 4, at least.

Then there's Gnome. It's kinda nice and ugly at the same time. The nice thing is that is that it works quite intuitively after installing and tries to "do the right thing" (opposed to KDE which tries hard to be as annoying as windoze by default) - nautilus stupidly complaining about wrong extensions being the noteworthy exception - and the apps are very stable, for me. But I find it extremely ugly to look at. Besides looking incerdibly retro, everything is _huge_. Gigantic, to be precise. The default Icon+Text button settings often need a 1600x1200 display with maximized windows to show :/ And while they try to be less geek than KDE with the millions of buttons, icons, side bars and stuff, there's simply too little configurability, even with gconf-editor. I simply can't get it to look my way. Plus, the thing changes half its behaviour with every new version, which is kinda annoying.

So, even if I try from time to time, I always fall back. The longest streak I ever used KDE was with 3.4.x lately, with about three months. Gnome's record was something as long as two months. Simply won't do. And, when I'm back, I'm always delighted by the incredible speed a desktop can have

So, generally I'm okay with seeing KDE and GNOME on some machines other than mine (like RHEL servers or the occasional Ubuntu installation). But my own workstations ... no

I need to get stuff done. I *do* like the stuff I do to look good. But KDE and GNOME both get in my way too often, unfortunately.
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Raftysworld · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:44 pm Post subject: