On Thursday 11 December 2008 12:02:01 am kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
soooo, what are kde and suse going to do for the new year and for the little people?
Hi Dimitris, the link to http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/RecommendedReading is just to see what developers are trying to accomplish. I watched video that is linked from Away with Applications: The Death of the Desktop http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6856727143023456694 and while presenter wasn't able to give answers on some (important) questions, general idea that current application centric desktop will produce monster application is valid. Everyone is trying to give user ability to do all he needs without switching trough few applications, and as time is passing, every application grows adding features until user will need basic desktop and any of application to do all work. I'm not sure that all ideas in video are step forward, but it is time for change. The situation is the same as in old DOS days when every program brought its graphic, sound and mouse drivers, some kind of windowing system, then came someone with idea to offer that as a part of operating system. Users and developers accepted that happily. Users got unified interface, where you had to learn how to operate it once, developers had one way to access GUI, driver developers had one way to write drivers for their devices. I still have one very old graphic card that had few drivers, among others there were some for particular applications, I guess AutoCAD was one of them. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org