Design Your Own Background with KDE 4
BY ENINE AT 01/18/08 09:09 AM
It ever astonishs me how far in front of Windows or OS X the KDE desktop is.
BY THE HOW-TO Oddball AT 01/18/08 09:12 AM
BY Ajax622 AT 01/18/08 09:17 AM
I idea I say that there were some numbers with the current KDE 4 release?
BY JONNYDOVER AT 01/18/08 09:23 AM
One of the best features of KDE4’s compositing personal effects is its Reveal effect, excited by dint of victimisation corners OSX style. It’s the one piece of eye candy I encounter I can no retentive live without in Compiz, and it’s a welcome add to KDE’s native compositing locomotive engine as good.
BY INVID AT 01/18/08 09:36 AM
Im dying to check up on this extinct! Thanks for the reappraisal!
BY MR.ELWOOD AT 01/18/08 09:39 AM
How made you get free of the taskbar? I at least want to get it littler in tallness but ca not figure that extinct.
BY MYOTHERALT AT 01/18/08 09:52 AM
Grr, I dont want to hold back till Apr!
BY ZALE.DOWLEN AT 01/18/08 09:52 AM
Oh, that’s wherefore I want to promote to KDE 4. Decent!
BY EMOSHUNZ AT 01/18/08 10:13 AM
all they need is a ‘make me feel like os x’ choice (i.e. mutual menu bar and dock, i cognize the menu bar is an alternative i cognise, but i ca not chance a qt4 dock) and i’d be felicitous. amazing as is though. 5-7 months and oss will be ready to have an existent ‘year of the desktop linux’ (or bsd).
BY CYBERCOWBOY AT 01/18/08 10:17 AM
@Myotheralt Wherefore would you have to hold back until Apr?
BY Mortal65535 AT 01/18/08 10:33 AM
CyberCowboy: Im guess Kubuntu 8.04
BY QPEASE AT 01/18/08 10:49 AM
I use PCLinuxOS 2007 with an earliest variant of KDE desktop. I like it although it still has that XP feel. I like the Dwarf Background to a fault, but most distros run to take to the woods a small dense than the KDE distros. This KDE 4 looks hopeful. My hope is that more distros espouse this desktop as an alternative or a standard. All I am desiring for nowadays is that KDE 4 is not a scheme hog. I am not a OSX exploiter, but I cognize it is a very decent scheme, let’s merely maintain it unparalleled, no copy-catting some other scheme, please.
BY Adam CHERNOW AT 01/18/08 10:50 AM
CyberCowboy: I conceive that is when the next Ubuntu/Kubuntu release is scheduled.
myotheralt: You can set up it ontop of a current Kubuntu installing. There are ways on Kubutu’s site: [kubuntu.org]
I’ve acted with it a spot on my desktop machine and I can tell I’m not presently a rooter of KDE4. At least on my computing device, the taskbar and images appear to be capriciously Brobdingnagian and as far as I can realise there are no choices to shrivel up the taskbar, ikons or textual matter on the clock.
BY GRAYBIRD AT 01/18/08 11:12 AM
heh, I’ve been holding back for an “open sourcery” that really held to do with open source. Congrats, Kevin!
decent clause, perhaps i’ll have to yield kde4 a pipped today.
BY PETE AT 01/18/08 11:39 AM
Wow, I completely made not cognize KDE permits you to do that nowadays. Astonishing.
BY N00BLAR AT 01/18/08 11:49 AM
I like Linux, and I’ve been victimisation it for about two months today; although I still use Windows to a great extent. My only gripe with Linux backgrounds is the deficiency of invention. This novel liberation is merely some other Panorama/OS X look alike. I wish some of the developers would believe ‘out of the box’ and make something ‘fresh and innovative’.
I guess that’s where shut/private code reflects at; it looks that shut labors appear to introduce more than open source protrudes.
KDE 4 looks full for a Aspect/OS X look alike desktop; in person I will pass and stick my Dwarf based desktop.
BY N00BLAR AT 01/18/08 11:52 AM
qpease: I hold with your comment. I placed something like to the - aper inclinations of linux backgrounds.
It would be a welcome change if for one time we made not have a Windows/OS X ‘look alike’ desktop.
BY CONFUZIUS AT 01/18/08 11:54 AM
But what about my cube?
Too is there any kind of Avant-Window-Navigator result?
I switched over from KDE to Dwarf a while back primarily for AWN today my flow is very very much affiliated to the centralness of it.
BY EMOSHUNZ AT 01/18/08 12:15 PM
Confuzius: full ground to exchange. i am desiring kwin will have an alike result shortly.
BY IFIGETOLD AT 01/18/08 12:49 PM
Confuzius: Could you not get AWN doing work in KDE 3.5? I’ve not well 4.0 because I have 3.5 configured the mode I want it already.
BY MAHALIE AT 01/18/08 12:58 PM
Makes anyone cognize of a full round up of Linux Graphical user interface tweakign choices? It looks like there are a tidy sum of desktop toys extinct there. I’ve been realizing a mass about Compiz as good. As a soul somewhat fresh to Linux and still victimisation the nonremittal Ubuntu Screen background I’d love to realize a big face by face. ESP. if it included Read use. I am besides searching for my shortly to get subcompact car Asus eee
BY ETERNICODE AT 01/18/08 02:07 PM
I tested KDE4 on my tonic Plucky instal…and I guess I was simply frightened off by the radical newness of it. Indication this article, I’ve sed mind to seek it once more. It’s a decent novel surroundings…demur for the relative lack of customizability.
Only a few negative stimulations for me:
1) Rigid gizmo sizes; you can go around and scale the widgets, but breadth vs tallness is all automatic.
2) Lack of “full” linguistic context cartes. In KDE 3.5, panels etc were customizable via right-click cards that had got a good deal of choices. this novel “panel” has no such menu…
3) Offset still has no alternatives for customming the push button mental image…and nowadays I ca not use KBFX 
Of course of study, it’s still in beta way, I consider, so I in all probability should not be to a fault hard on it 
BY THE HOW-TO Oddball AT 01/18/08 02:11 PM
Adam Chernow: I had got the like job with it… the fact that I ca not resize is big enough, but not being capable to locomote it to the top of the silver screen but nettled me to the item where I locomoted back to KDE3.
BY MYOTHERALT AT 01/18/08 02:41 PM
BY ETERNICODE AT 01/18/08 04:42 PM
Adam Chernow and The How-To Flake: I say somewhere (ca not happen the nexus) that the jury (and the plasmoids, to a less extent) is presently so nonadaptive because of the edition 4.0 feature crosscut: they simply made not have clocked to complete the functionality earlier the freeing date, so they made clean it up and forced it extinct. Besides, ostensibly 4.0 is less the final release than the pre-initial release [www.pcworld.idg.com.au] ; edition 4.1 is due extinct sometime in the next six to nine calendar months.
“Nucleus developer Hank Aaron J Seigo likes the thought of a July release of 4.1 as there is ‘a lot of 90% through stuff’”
So I’m shot that KDE 4.1 will be lots more self to proffer the customizability we Linux exploiters have turned so wonted to ^_^
In the interim, you can get free of the jury altogether (or most likely resize/reposition it) from the config file ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
[hockeynoessologolpes.wordpress.com] You’ll have to utilize something early than Plasm while redaction the data file, though.
And an interesting excursus….seemingly they’re doing work on Windows and Mack OSX ports for KDE4. ‘Twill be interesting to realize this on my XP desk 
[wiki.kde.org]
BY THE HOW-TO Flake AT 01/18/08 07:43 PM
eternicode: Thanks for the gratuity… Off to try out! =)
BY GYFFES AT 01/18/08 07:50 PM
I was off off of KDE (and PCLinuxOS) because they seemed Overly a lot like the scorned XP. For some ground, Dwarf bothers me, as good, but I conceive that’s b/c it’s a buttugly (default Ubuntu) edition of the MacOS.
Easy, nevertheless, I’ve set about to get all my schemes (give thanks you, VMWare Merger!) look alike — I hide taskbars, get rid of desktop images, run everything from Quicksilver, Katapult, SlickRun, Hydrargyrum.. so today, I can candidly state I’m OS agnostic: they all function Simply about the like (the XP instals, with BlackBox as windowpane managing director, even have background/Infinite).
SO while it’s decent to understand such interesting art as CompizFusion furnish, or the forms of desktop widgets demonstrated here, what I want to cognise is, “Can I extinguish everything to get it run riotous, no thing the ironware?”
For the platter, Mahalie, there’s a rattling variation of Xubuntu being crafted peculiar for the eee — go to eeeuser.com and search for eeeXubuntu.
Cheers!
BY Psyche_GRIND AT 01/19/08 07:29 AM
I set up Ubuntu as a double charge a recollective while back after a lifehacker good word, and its pretty cool… but about every spot of software package looks to do work better (or need) KDE… i’m questioning wherefore Ubuntu looks to be the placard minor of the linux-for-newbies brigade when KDE looks more backed up and full featured.
I must get about to nerve KDE… how about an easy lifehacker tutorial on how to set up KDE on Ubuntu???
BY EARLYCJ5 AT 01/19/08 07:49 AM
@Psyche_GRIND
It’s terribly easy.
All you need is:
sudo apt-get set up kubuntu-desktop
Total through is here:
BY EMORY- AT 01/19/08 07:50 AM
psyche_grind: I’m pretty certain it’s something as easy as sudo apt-get instal kubuntu 
Look about on Kubuntu’s page, it should be there…
BY KEVIN PURDY AT 01/19/08 02:47 PM
qpease: From my experience, even turning tail KDE on top of a Dwarf instalment, KDE 4 moves more or less quicker, and with manner few of the “lilliputian small clangorings” I retrieve from KDE 3.5.x
BY KEVIN PURDY AT 01/19/08 02:51 PM
eternicode: Valid items, but I believe the overall thought with KDE 4 was to take away the massive direction on the jury as the spot to do everything. Very much of the panels’ functionality (app shift, “speedy launching” pictures, etc.) is nowadays uncommitted in widgets that can be situated anyplace, and more widgets are for certain on the manner. As well, to get more widgets, at least from the Kubuntu KDE 4 depositaries, instal the extragear-plasma package.
BY KEVIN PURDY AT 01/19/08 02:54 PM
eternicodeThe How-To Oddball: I acquired free of the jury without config file chopping, but to be honorable, I ca not rather call up how-and nowadays I wonder if it could have been by fortuity!
BY KEVIN PURDY AT 01/19/08 03:01 PM
psyche_grind: Check extinct the update I simply shook off in to a lower place the sec paragraph for a fashion to get KDE 4 doing work with Ubuntu. And regretful for the remark spam, everybody-I’ve been net-less since this promulgated.
BY MB AT 01/21/08 06:44 AM
Ajax622: Issues in KDE 4.0
From the Argons Technica Review (accent mine):
Patch meter reading this article, it is of import to maintain in mind that KDE 4 is quieted for the most part uncomplete. Many of the inside information supplied in this article ponder the fact that the 4.0 release is not a ruined merchandise. The KDE evolution team polemically distinct to let go 4.0 in a previous province in order to excite exploiter interest and encourage accelerated evolution. The consequence is that KDE 4.0 is, in lots of slipways, like a trailer for developers and technical partizans instead than a liberation for endeavour backgrounds and product environs. My extended examination shows that KDE 4.0 can be put on an after footing, but there are a lot of inconveniences presented by the software’s current restrictions. In this article, I will assay to furnish a proportion of innovative analytic thinking and elaborated verbal descriptions of the software’s current state.”
BY TECHMUNKEY AT 01/22/08 08:57 AM
I have been victimization Ubuntu since early Nov 2007. As a novel Linux exploiter I tested all three flavors of Ubuntu Linux, Dwarf, KDE, and XFCE. XFCE was meh. Dwarf is antic and aeroembolism entirely yo my will. Wherefore would a Linux exploiter with all this powerfulness on their desktop want to emulate something they claim to detest(Windows XP or Prospect)? I guess to pull exploiters. Well KDE4 and it is rather wanting.
Dwarf + Gimmie + gdesklets + AWN + COMPIZ = Ally Envy Optic Candy > XP,View,Mack OSX
BY CYCLEFIEND2000 AT 01/23/08 06:27 AM
i tested KDE4 on my kubuntu set up. like brought up earlier, i dont peculiarly like the large images. i buzzword understand anything specially looking above and beyond the last KDE release.
for simplicity’s interest, i choose fluxbox.
BY SUPER_BRYANT AT 01/23/08 10:03 AM
techmunkey: I had got Dwarf and all those early plans you told the only job is that escaping on that crap genuinely slows down down your scheme….so I’m all for a distro that makes all that stuff natively. I hope thats where KDE 4 is travelling….It’s merely genuinely young at this point.
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AT 02/04/08 09:53 AM