It's been another insane week of activity for me, but fortunately it's also meant having a lot to show for it. As one example, we put the Plasma animation hooks through one more API review and we're pretty happy with the shape of it now. I have some work to do in the JavaScript Plasmoid engine to reflect some of these changes, and that's a good example of how activity often causes even more work for us. ;)
Today, however, I'm in Paris attending the Netbook World Summit. I'll be taking part in a panel presentation this afternoon, but the most important thing for KDE here is the human networking opportunities. I've been joined by Frank Karlitschek to represent KDE here, and it's great to have an extra pair of hands, ears and eyes so we can get the most out of this event.
Frank and I also had a very good set of discussions yesterday over dinner and drinks about challenges and opportunities KDE and KDE e.V. are faced with, ranging from the git migration to distribution relationship issues.
This morning I was pleasantly surprised to see the KDE logo on the partner's banners here at the event and breakfast with the Mandriva people was very productive. I also met with some eBook people and talked about the current and future state of eBook readers, files and services and how we could take advantage of these things in KDE and in particular Okular. So we're off to a great start here already and I have great hope for what we can achieve before tomorrow when I turn around and go back home.
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The Microsoft .lit eBook format is quite common. Some figured out the format and made a GPL tool to convert .lit files to .html files, but reading a book as one long .html page is less than optimal. There is no bookmark on the portion of the book you left off on.
I filed a bug report a few years back for Okular to add .lit support. I'd still really love to see it.
I'd also like to see a slight fork of the Oxygen widget style for netbooks that is a bit tighter.
That being said, I can imagine in the near future one Linux netbook, where a user has sessions for a Moblin UI, then logs out into the Ubuntu Netbook UI, then logs out into the KDE Plasma Netbook UI, and then logs into the Chrome OS UI.
When people see the freedom, versatility and power of Linux on netbooks, I think they will be blown away.
Why do I get a feeling we're focusing too much on netbooks and cellphones and losing focus of the actual desktop? As much as netbooks are nice. The desktop is still quite important too.
My opinion is KDE netbook is still too desktop-like, esp. for the panel. As most of application will be shown as full screen, probably it is better to "embed" things generally available in panel into each app's title bar to use space more efficiently.
BTW, assuming you don't know Chinese, the 1st comment is just porn spam, you may want to delete it.
You're a busy man Mr. Seigo. The KDE community, and I'd like to include myself, can be totally happy to have someone like you working on the things we love.
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