I second Rikard's comments.
KDE has been high energy in making new features. But they have done so
much reinvention of the wheel that they have lost old good X-Window
functions and not used Unix and X-windows function that already do the
job while building a monstrously large and hard to administer (if a bug
or two is lurking as it always is and because admin constantly morphs in
significant ways between releases) desktop.
I think KDE needs more of MySQL's philosophy of development, performance
and efficiency is priority one and functions are added over more gradual
times without sacrificing that performance.
Allen
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> On Friday 16 July 2004 23.16, Ji Zhuang wrote:
> > hey! :) I'm not a programmer, but I'm just wondering...
> >
> > A desktop interface with active, animated and auto-updated desktop scenes
> > (e.g. an ocean scene updated dawn/noon/dusk according to the computer clock
> > and showing an animated sunrise/sunset)...
> >
>
> Probably feasible with a cron script and a few background pic's and changed
> with any utility that alters the background.
>
> > A penguin all-in-one desktop assistant featuring a calender, e-mail agent,
> > reminders, spoken jokes/trivia/greetings, i.e. "Merry Christmas!" on Dec.
> > 25, spoken and animated tips on Linux, help with Linux, narrated commands,
> > i.e. "Doc 4 has been saved", a full narrator for blind users, a speak
> > module for the user to speak to the computer, and options including
> > voice/pitch/speed/silent mode/invisible mode adjustments.
> >
>
> And i who switched to OpenOffice to get RID of the ass(istant)
>
> > A translucent hand-clock on the desktop, taskbars for each desktop
> > (auto-hideable), quicklaunch panels, and each corner of the monitor screen
> > labeled decoratively with "1, 2, 3 and 4" for 1-click access to the 4
> > desktops with a cool flipping animation...
> >
> > phew... a lot of features... but i know nothing of how to make all this a
> > reality... anyone can help?!
> >
> > -- Ji Zhuang
>
> Personally i rather go with a fast, reliable desktop then all those flashy
> thingemagigs. Sure they are eyecatching, but whats the real use??
> My own .02$ worth... :)
>
>
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