Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 20th Jan 2008 11:11 UTC
At Google's offices in Mountain View, California, KDE 4.0's release event has ended. Various KDE people have given presentations, and a set of them has been posted online. Among them is Aaron Seigo's keynote presentation, which is very interesting to watch, and gives you a very good idea of what the KDE project is trying to achieve with KDE 4 (I just finished watching). Other presentations have also been put online.
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They certainly do have similar projects, but the problem is making good use of them throughout the desktop in a way that is not onerous for developers. At about twenty minutes into that main video, Aaron talks about Akonadi and how within a few lines of code they could integrate with Plasma and make your contacts, e-mail and other PIM data available to various applets for display and retrieval. This is not application specific. I don't really know of any other desktop environment that is working towards this, and Microsoft didn't take Windows Mail any further in Vista because they were clearly afraid it would stop you from buying into Outlook and Exchange ;-).
Something called Dashboard was written for Gnome a few years ago, which was able to do an apparently similar thing. Unfortunately, the data that was pulled into this was very much application specific. Evolution for mail and contacts and GAIM (Pidgin) for instant messaging, and there was no real way of making this data flexible beyond those domains. There was no way of adding in other forms of information for display in an easy way either. From that presentation, it becomes pretty clear that that is where KDE is different.