OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21428/Social_Desktop_Starts_to_Arrive_in_KDE Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 23:19:36 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Social Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?361666 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361666 I am mostly a recluse by choice, so this feature will be of no use to me. In fact my only connection to the outside world is OSNews ... Mon, 04 May 2009 17:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Isolationist) Comments RE: Social Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?361671 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361671 Thank you for the chuckle! Mon, 04 May 2009 17:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?361690 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361690 It is already done and is called FaceBook. Mon, 04 May 2009 19:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments Comment by SJ87 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361694 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361694 I spent one evening figuring out what doesn't work in KDE 4.2.2 and came up with ~40 items of whom most are usability bugs and a couple incoherent behaviour of different apps. I didn't even bother to count Nepomuk or Amarok flaws since they are really at the 0.0.x level of development.

They really, really should just fix the basics first before trying to come up with something even more beta.

P.S. I am now waiting to have time to figure out which of these were already marked but not fixed and for which I might myself need to file a report.

I suppose they are all well known since I ain't a hardcore power user using my own hacks here and there.Edited 2009-05-04 20:31 UTC Mon, 04 May 2009 20:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SJ87) Comments I like KDE for reasons like this http://www.osnews.com/thread?361704 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361704 "I am going to complain about bugs in KDE 4x but in no way have I or will I ever do anything to fix said bugs."

I like this idea. I dislike facebook because the only thing it seems to do well is blast the user with trvial life moments from high school classmates that they would otherwise have no contact with. At lest this seems like it could have some useful applications Mon, 04 May 2009 21:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (crossbones) Comments RE: ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?361737 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361737
It is already done and is called FaceBook.

Does facebook help with group collaboration? Document sharing?

There would be little point in building a facebook clone.

Try reading the blog post this story links to and the comments on it. Tue, 05 May 2009 00:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (m_abs) Comments RE[2]: ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?361746 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361746 Does facebook help with group collaboration? Document sharing?

Yes it does, and many other things via pluggins.

http://technochondria.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/facebook-enables-sea... Edited 2009-05-05 01:32 UTC Tue, 05 May 2009 01:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments RE: I like KDE for reasons like this http://www.osnews.com/thread?361764 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361764
"I am going to complain about bugs in KDE 4x but in no way have I or will I ever do anything to fix said bugs."

I like this idea. I dislike facebook because the only thing it seems to do well is blast the user with trvial life moments from high school classmates that they would otherwise have no contact with. At lest this seems like it could have some useful applications


I wouldn't say it is totally useless; I know that the Green Party in New Zealand are big Linux/OpenSource supporters so something like this would be incredibly useful for collaboration during the election or establishing a strong support base with party members.

I know the party that I am with there is an embracing of technology - and I'm trying to push it further. It will be interesting to see politics in the future as more of my generation get involved and are no longer satisfied with the old way of doing things; a desire to create a genuine community around a given idea rather than the arms distance approach which exists today in the traditional party models. Tue, 05 May 2009 03:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments RE: Comment by SJ87 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361768 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361768
I didn't even bother to count Nepomuk or Amarok flaws since they are really at the 0.0.x level of development.


Of all the apps that have been migrated to KDE4...Amarok would have to be the biggest disappointment for me. They've butchered and overcomplicated what was once a killer app.

I hope some sanity will prevail and a 'mozilla-to-firefox-like' project will spring up to bring it back to something resembling usable. For now I'm steering clear though, which is a crying shame. Tue, 05 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wakeupneo) Comments RE: Comment by SJ87 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361783 http://www.osnews.com/thread?361783 The time you consume whining here could've been used to file a couple of bug reports... ;) Tue, 05 May 2009 07:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aunzim) Comments RE[2]: Comment by SJ87 http://www.osnews.com/thread?362019 http://www.osnews.com/thread?362019 Amarok 2.0 was mainly a release to get the new (needed!) foundation into place. Since then Amarok undertook an usability review process. The results of that process will be applied to Amarok over time, starting with the 2.1 release: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/2009_Sprint_Roadmap_and_TODO

No need for unsubstantiated calls for a fork. Wed, 06 May 2009 08:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KugelKurt) Comments RE: ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?362148 http://www.osnews.com/thread?362148 Dude, facebook doesn't start with a K Wed, 06 May 2009 21:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments RE: ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?362239 http://www.osnews.com/thread?362239
It is already done and is called FaceBook.

Yep and it faces the many well documented problems that web apps have and why people are looking to integrate social networking applications into desktop applets.

Besides, there's no reason you couldn't integrate this with Facebook. Thu, 07 May 2009 10:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (segedunum) Comments