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Killing the Desktop Metaphor with GNOME
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| The desktop metaphor as we typically know it reproduces some of the concepts
| of the real world, which brings its share of drawbacks. While GNOME still
| uses this metaphor by default, we can, however, customize it to fulfill more
| efficiently the needs of the increasingly complex information flow that we
| experience on a daily basis.
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| I am aware that this article flogs a three-decade-old zombie horse. I haven't
| yet, however, found a more efficient workflow than the one I am hereby
| presenting, and I would be very interested in comments you may have regarding
| making it better optimized. If you have something you would like me to add to
| this article, praises or expressions of undying love, feel free to email me.
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http://open-source.ecchi.ca/?voir=articles/killing_the_desktop
what is KDE?
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| whenever people ask me that question, I have trouble answering. what is KDE?
| it’s not just a desktop environment any more, not by a long shot. it’s a
| whole universe of software projects (one of which is a desktop environment).
| it’s the libraries that we use to make that software, that helps make a KDE
| program really *feel* like a KDE program. it’s the community around that
| software, people we work with and care about.
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http://chani.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/what-is-kde/
Recent:
Using the Desktop…why?
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| In Openbox, I’d need an extra program just to add icons to the desktop, but I
| don’t. I don’t have a “QuickLaunch bar” either. Why should I? I have the
| menu, and maybe ten keyboard combinations that open my favorite applications.
| I have a panel at the bottom, but I noticed I don’t use it to navigate
| between my open windows…it’s only there so I know what applications I’ve
| already opened.
|
| [...]
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| There’s another problem with using the desktop as a place where you store
| files: every time you open a program (as computer users tend to do
| sometimes), you hide them all. I guess that’s why the “Show Desktop” function
| was invented…so you can open even more windows, which will instantly hide
| your icons again.
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http://celettu.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/using-the-desktopwhy/
no more desktop icons in 4.1
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| Well, we now have a folder view applet courtesy of Frederik Höglund. It can
| view any folder you want, including the desktop folder. You can also set a
| filter, making it possible to, for instance, view just images or whatever. It
| uses KIO so you can view remote folders as well. You can drag items to and
| from it, delete files, scroll, etc. It lines everything up in a nice grid and
| uses the same drawing routines that Dolphin, Konqueror, KRunner and others
| use from kdelibs for the icons.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-more-desktop-icons-in-41.html
Movies about KDE 4.1 Alpha
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| Jos Poortvliet present some movies, which show some new features in KDE 4.1,
| especially in Plasma, Kwin, Dolphin, Gweniview and some other applications.
| This movies show imposingly the proceedings of KDE 4.1
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http://www.czessi.de/en/weblog/2008/05/movies-about-kde-4-1-alpha
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