Tokamak II begins today. This morning we're all catching up on svn (hooray, Qt 4.5 is in qt-copy!), nutrition, sleep, email and our lives since we last saw each other. This afternoon, we will be sharing Plasma related presentations with each other and then the serious conversations, designing and hacking shall commence.
I'll keep you all updated as to what insanities we come up with as Tokamak progresses. One key thought I'll be trying to spread at the event here amongst the team is keeping serious play going even as Plasma matures. We've only started to innovate, after all.
Though it seems that with the rest of the KDE4 workspace team, we've managed to make something more desirable than Vista and even reminiscent of Apple visual quality, already. ;)
(We watched the video as a group this morning after finding it on Wade's blog and had a great laugh!)
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moved to Qt 4.5 *grins*
reminiscent of Apple visual quality? No you're not there yet. Plasma yes, but the Widget themes? I'd say they're not really on par...
@Will on pretty widget themes, have you tried bespin? I don't actually use it, perhaps because I don't like the way its tabs are detached from its tab-pages or perhaps because I just prefer a very flat, very square theme (a qtcurve theme), but it is very snazzy and *everything* is animated (subtly).
@Will: the humor is in the video: in it, people were saying that the "Windows 7 Beta" they were looking at (actually a KDE 4.2 desktop) looked a lot more like a Mac in how pretty it was than Vista did ;)
@maninalift: Yes bespin is beautiful but still it isn't on par yet. Sometimes I blame it to Dolphin's(and other applications) poor layout design. I couldn't provide a better solution though but it's just so cluttered to look at. In fact I am really confused as to what is really wrong with KDE's widget theme. I hate it because it's holding me back from experiencing the beautiful Plasma. I hope everything goes well in the long run.
@Aaron: The video was cool. I had a good laugh :)
@Will (yes I'm back) I'm not sure what you mean by "poor layout"
There is a main toolbar, which just consists of a row of widgets (fairly standard) which can be edited (right click on toolbar and select "Configure Toolbars". The toolbar can even be removed completely. The widgets themselves are drawn by the theme.
Then there are the panels, such as "Information", "Places" etc. These can be dragged into any position, they can be tabbed etc. Better still they can be switched on and off at the strike of a key (F4, F7, F9 and F11 - admittedly not as easy to remember as if they were consecutive keys).
I hope that helps, I don't know what else they could do to make the interface flexible while remaining familiar and intuitive.
@maninalift: Hey I am taking back what I said. Yup Bespin is so beautiful! I just realized it after I saw some variations posted in kde-look.org. I wish it was compact though, but it is clearly very beautiful. How much more come KDE 4.3, yay! Now my one and only remaining gripe would be the Firefox theming compatibility...
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