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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Member since:2006-09-14
That makes sense, KDE keeps advancing and really is getting so refined for a desktop manager. To me this desktop environment has an easy user interface with a lot of functionality.
Kind of off topic but Konquerer web browser had more plug-ins and more functionlity it would be my choice for a web-browser over FireFox.
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2005-10-19
> If Plamsa is using the OpenUsability project does that mean that it will still be compatibly with previous KDE releases?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "compatible" :-). First off, don't think of Plasma as an isolated application; Plasma is the shell, the face of KDE 4.0. Technologically, it heavily draws upon the power of version 4.2 of the Qt toolkit that KDE is based on - KDE 3.x uses Qt 3.x. So no, Plasma won't run "on" KDE 3.x.
OpenUsability is a project and platform that brings together professional usability experts and open source projects. KDE has been a part of that community more or less since its inception.