http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10/ My blog about Kubuntu and KDE-ish things Fri, 31 May 2013 03:52:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10/#comment-29 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:53:00 +0000 http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10#comment-29 Surely your are releasing 8.10 with KDE 4.1.1 even thought the ff was couple days back? I can not see any reason not to because it is just few fixes to 4.1. I am sure that there are couple useful plasma-addons as well which could be used as a default. I was hoping to see also packagekit in 8.10 but… well there is always 9.04

]]> http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10/#comment-28 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:00:00 +0000 http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10#comment-28 I don’t have anything against folder view applet; i like it actually.Good about the virtual desktops ^_^Hope at least some of my other suggestions will be considered Cheers!

]]> http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10/#comment-27 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:17:00 +0000 http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10#comment-27 Actually, the folderview shows the contents of the ~/Desktop folder, and QuickAccess gives you rather quick access to the contents of your home folder.Folderview is mainly there for legacy support for people who still have icons ‘n’ such on their desktop.Oh, and the default desktop *does* actually have only 2 virtual desktops. I just got lazy and copied the default plasma-appletsrc to my home dir because I didn’t want to go log in to my test dummy account, grab a screenie, copy it back over with sudo, then change the permissions, etc. So that’s why the screenshot has 4 virtual desktops.

]]> http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10/#comment-26 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:05:00 +0000 http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10#comment-26 People told you before the trash applet is useless and i think the show desktop applet would be way better than the show dashboard one since it minimizes the windows and you get to see the desktop will all it’s applets, so you get to hide your stuff for sure if you need to rather than some ‘eye candy’.Is that an icon for home folder / dolphin? O_oSo not only you get to have your home directory in a folder view applet when you start or the Kickoff menu, but you also get a shortcut for home in the panel… heh… Yes, I’m picky!Device notifier? Don’t you receive shortcuts for those inside dolphin?4 Desktops? It really adds up to the confusion. An average user will use 2 at most!Consider my panel:http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/152/hehim0.jpgThis is how it should look by default imho.

]]> http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10/#comment-25 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:57:00 +0000 http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-plasma-kubuntu-8-10#comment-25 That sounds absolute awesome. I can hardly wait for it.

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