Given that my last blog entry was more of the "problems and a possible solution" sort, I figure a quickie with the "what's good" is called for to maintain balance in life. =) So here we go, things that are working well:
- Planet KDE: the art team stepped up to create a beautiful new layout, the web team stepped up to implement it using Rawdog (ooh, ajaxy! ;) and the pragmatists came up with the obvious solution for the "we rely on only a couple guys to maintain the rss feed list": put the thing in svn so anyone with an svn account can maintain the blog roll! A truly class act on all fronts.
- KJots: I no longer use it as a stand-alone application, because now it works perfectly in Kontact! Multi-level notes, rich text formatting, links, exporting and printing and so much more .. all just an icon click away from my mail and calendar! Awesome!
- Folderview: Frederik's been at it again! Icon positions are saved (so you can move things around), align-to-grid is there, advanced filtering, speed-speed-speed and a handful of minor graphical improvements is going to make Plasma in KDE's 4.2 workspace all that much more impressive.
- Petri found a nice work around for a limitation in KConfigSkeleton that lets us use it properly with scripted widgets and has been making the Webkit plasmoids rock! (His work around is rather clean, actually, and obvious in retrospect, so it falls neatly into the "inspired" category. =)
- I slept well last night.
Ah, ballance restored. ;)
3 comments:
KJots looks handy, I've never used it. On a similar note I'm finding the Kate session applet really useful in keeping a few little projects and sets of notes at my fingertips. Goes to show how Plasma can make it very simple to customize your work-flow.
I'm also loving folderview, though I can't access the settings at the moment for some reason (SVN version).'
About 'negative' things: I really enjoyed your last few posts, in which you mentioned things which might need addressing, in development or KDE community or elsewhere.
I don't know where to put this at the moment ... I hope you read it sometime aaron ... you rellay have to take a look at this: http://tinyurl.com/4c9lwr
it is a concept video by mozilla labs.
ZUI, Collaboration,... I think this is what KDE should become...
@bernhardrode yeah, mozilla labs is really in to the social/semantic thing but it all occurs in the browser not the desktop.
While doing these things in the browser has short-term advantages, I think that the desktop approach is the more powerful one. But who knows, perhaps the browser-is-the-desktop model will win in the end.
Ubiquity is pretty cool (it's a krunner/quicksilver type thing for Firefox) and it exists now. One interesting feature of it is that it is more flexible than single command or even noun-verb, it seems to allow fairly general semantics.
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