Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Sep 2006 15:12 UTC, submitted by Subhush
"It has hardly been a few weeks since the release of KDE v3.5.4, one of the most popular desktop environments for Unix/Linux/FreeBSD operating systems, and the KDE development team is already hard at work. They have a dream of revolutionizing the concept of desktop by providing an array of innovative features aimed at improving both the looks of the desktop environment as well as the productivity of end users. In this article, we will look at one such component called Plasma that promises to change the look and feel of a conventional desktop."
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2005-10-19
> Arn't they following updated human interface guidelines for KDE 4.0? Perhaps KDE 4.0 will be more intuitive and elegent than it's predecessors.
The KDE 4.0 HIG is still under development, but yes, it's going to be a huge improvement over what the project had in the 3.x days. The KDE Usability effort today is staffed by usability professionals with a track record in the industry, and tighly collaborates with the OpenUsability project. Strongly integrating usability engineering into the development process is a big part of the agenda for the next-gen, and that is, in many ways, more exciting than Plasma by itself, I find.