Is this possible?

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 03:44:39 pm Constantinos Maltezos wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2008 2:42:01 pm Art Alexion wrote:
> > How about somebody who really likes KDE 4 list some NON-COSMETIC things
> > it does better than 3.5 that would convince one to switch now?
>
> First of all, the "show widgets" icon is so much more useful to me than the
> "show desktop" one ever was.  Without messing with the order of the window
> stack, I can launch something from the desktop folder and have everything
> immediately come back.  

Thanks for that - I hadn't clicked as to why it was useful. I used to always 
minimise windows to get at the desktop - now no need to, just have to break 
the habit now :)

And the new menu does grow on you - I used to hate it, thought it was the 
worst thing *evah*  Now I miss it when in other environments. I like Lancelot 
and have it as well, but still use the K-Menu more.

I think its a matter of forcing ourselves to try new things, we get to set in 
our ways and need to shake things up once in a while, especially when we get 
the visceral knee-jerk reaction of "This is Crap/Stupid/etc" A sign perhaps 
that we are too comfortable in our assumptions and they are being challenged.


Its early days yet, but already we're starting to see new and interesting 
plasmoids turn up. I expect to see a creative explosion of them as KDE4 
becomes better known, something that won't happen under gnome as the framework 
isn't there.

I would like to see plasmoids be extended to all of KDE if possible, so that 
writing extensions for konqueror and Kontact could become as easy as it is for 
Firefox and Thunderbird.



-- 
Lindsay
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/album