I arrived yesterday in Tampere, Finland for Akademy 2010. The travel went amazingly smoothly and I have even managed to my way around the town without much fuss. (I'm usually quite good at getting mildly lost in new cities, which I try and treat as an opportunity to discover things I wouldn't otherwise. :) Lots of KDE and F/OSS people are here already and the "day 0" hugs, visits, beer and food was excellent. My presentation slides are ready for tomorrow, though I want to go through my speaking notes one more time (and probably copy them over to fresh paper as they've become a bit of an edit-mess). So everything seems to be going very smoothly so far. I'm about to leave the hotel for the Uni where the first day of the conference proceedings will commend in ~90 minutes. The opening keynote talk is about MeeGo, and is being given by the Director of MeeGo Software in Nokia. I can't think of a better way to kick this whole thing off, and am really looking forward to the full day's worth of presentations and hallway meetings.
As the days go on, I expect there to a steady stream of news and updates to share. I'll try to augment the news that appears on The Dot with updates both here on my blog as well as as on my identi.ca stream where I'll hopefully be able to "live blog" the presentations.
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Hi Aaron,
how about make KDE SC a bit more glassy!? :D
Regards,
M. C.
I was talking today with a member of our local LUG list and he told me he uses Enlightenmen+GNOME because the way hi configured his virtual 3x3 disktop everything is data-centric instead application-centric.
Huh? Application-centric? (I asked)
Yeah, like KDE.
I really didn't realize what was his point because I use KDE SC along Yakuake and other customizations everyday and find it impressive - by far the best environment these days including commercial ones.
I just realized how app-center is KDE SC only few minutes ago when I was browsing the KDE SC site and came across this Netbook 4.5rc1 screenshot and saw Konqueror, Kmail, Sys Settings and Dolphin on top of it.
My point is something task-centric would be very cool, there should say Browse the web or internet or wathever, Compose and read your email, Customize your system and Navigate your files, so on, you got my point.
I just realized that when I remember new GNOME will be activities-centric (tasks-centric), mmm...
One can allways change "Konqueror" for "Browse the web" specially for newcomers and users who just want to do their job, but one thing is only rename a program and other is move focus for the whole environment from app-cent to tasks/activities-center.
BTW, I'm happy with the new KWin-Tiling feature, that will be like running together Awesome and KDE SC, c00l! (I really like Awesome and use it everyday on my laptop).
I am currious as to the relationship between Meego and KDE. Obviously they share a lot in common (Qt),so there is some synergy between them, but they also compete with one another for the hearts and minds of developes. I would imagine that the Meego desktop API is not at all compatible with the KDE Desktop API. So are programmers expected to choose what platform they target, or do they just right pure Qt code. The latter means that the programs would not be as tightly integrated with the desktop. Are developers expected to do something like
#ifdef MEEGO
MeegoApplication app
#else ifdef KDE
KApplication app
else
QApplication app
The syntax or names might be wrong above but you get the idea.
KDE leaders seem to be very enthusiastic about Meego, so I was wondering how the issues mentioned above are to be dealt with, or do they not even exist.
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