today on the calgary linux user's group mailing list a member noted:
I went to Eau Claire
today and saw that they have 2 PCs set up near the cash machines. Low
and behold, they are running Linux with KDE!
eau claire is a shopping mall in downtown calgary (which recently topped one million people; only the third city in canada to do so; yes, we're underpopulated and we like it that way; yes, i'm abusing semicolons)
now, i might have suspected that the reporter, one mike bougie, was smoking something fine that day (i've seen the man in action ... ;) except that he provided photo evidence. so unless he was feeling particularly devious today ....
the plasma blog will be coming later today .. perhaps early morning hours even, which would technically be saturday. bite me.
hugs and kisses, aseigo.
5 comments:
I thought you were talking about Eau Claire WI till you said Canada...I was so excited for a minute!
Big Sister
Dear Aaron, can't wait for your Plasma blog entry:) However, let me bring to your attention one problem which might be of more immediate interest to current KDE 3.x users.
The problem is that KDE's pager (desktop switcher) does not work with Compiz. Since many people are switching to Xgl/Compiz now, the need for the working pager becomes obvious. Presently, I am inclined (if not forced) to work in Gnome, since it provides the working pager for me. It is a pity for me as I am a long-term KDE's fan. Would it be possible for you to somehow initiate the work on KDE's pager to make it compatible with Compiz? Thank you for your attention, as well as for all that you do for us.
@anonymous: workspaces (vs "actual" virtual desktops) are, imho, a very broken concept. they are managed as one big desktop by the window manager that other components (e.g. the pager) then has to hack around pretending it is made up of a number of discreet desktops. bleh.
that said, xgl does not run on my laptop and therefore neither does compiz. i'm not about to start working on something i can't even test and which i believe will get replaced with something else in the future anyways (xgl is not and probably never will be a properly mature technology; while an important step along the way, gl rendering in x will likely come from another iteration of devel and there's other gl work needed in x.org to really make this fly properly).
anyways, someone on irc was working on workspace support in the pager the other day, so perhaps it will make it into kde 3.5.x. but it's going to have to be someone else, not me, that writes this code.
patches welcome.
hi aaron, thanks for getting the word out, but would you mind linking to me? i hate to beg for links, but...well, actually i don't really hate begging...please please please?! it's either a link from you of i outsource to india click-farming...
~Mike
http://www.underover.net
Not only is Aaron abusing semicolons in his parenthetical, he's also abusing statistics... though the City of Calgary is only the third municipality in Canada to have over a million inhabitants, it includes virtually the entire Calgary metropolitan area, whereas the City of Ottawa and the City of Vancouver contain only the main urban core. If metro Vancouver and metro Ottawa are counted, they're both bigger than Calgary...
(note: I may be being pedantic, but I am after all an occupant of the real third-largest Canadian city ;-)
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