On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@gmail.com> wrote:
They replaced Kickoff with an interesting full screen ordeal with a document time-line view called SimpleWelcome. Though many don't like the shifting paradigm of including smart phone and tablet interfaces on a desktop, I found its layout mostly comfortable on my tiny netbook. It is very reminiscent of Gnome3.
They are working on something similar in plasma-active. I am planning to try to get plasma-active included in playground and hopefully in KDE:Extra once it is released later this year.
This was part of their new default Plasma panel called RocketBar. The RocketBar is not terribly different from the upstream default, with the exception of SimpleWelcome.
What, specifically, are the differences?
I personally did like that their Task Manager was designed so as to only show the application icon, and not a description. As I am fond of docks, I liked this. This is something that should be integrated into the Task Manager as a option.
Upstream has already rejected this idea, they even rejected a working patch to add this feature. We could always include the patch if we wanted. It is very small and still works fine with KDE 4.7.
Now for a brief review of what was under the hood. Mandriva has switched to using systemD,
openSUSE 12.1 is doing this as well.
Mandriva also uses the Plymouth splash, which seeing as it resembles the last splash nearly identically I assume it used last time. Since I am unfamiliar with Plymouth vs. Splashy I can only say one should go take a look.
I think this is planned for 12.1 as well although I am not certain. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org