Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I'm thinking aircraft and BMW HUDs... how cool would that be? > Or thin, flexible, transparent displays as the middle layer in my helmet > visor > hooked up to a rearward facing lipstick camera so I can see the twit behind > me > in his SUV when I'm on my bike. Kinda a neuralizer for road rage via the Sanquin_Penguin ? > Futuristic perhaps, but when I read the lead KDE dev's blogs where they try > to > answer the question "What's KDE-4 all about anyway?" I feel that they tried > hard to build a base where I could do something as outlandish as that if I > choose to. Yes, Thats what folks do not get yet. KDE4 is new and fragile. It's not what KDE4 does (now) it's what it can do as a platform for advanced graphics and video (integration) rendering. The KDE4 platform will allow for awesome things to follow. > It's not all sunshine and roses For old guys like me, it was 'Guns and Roses' till the singer lost all his marbles... > But these are small issues and will be fixed in due course. Meanwhile, you > can > rotate plasmoids on the desktop (my favourite showoff trick - use a digital > clock). Sure, it's a gimmick, but a useful one, and one that shows off the > kind of vision the KDE-4 lead devs had in mind Is there a central repository for plasmoids? Or are you just combing the net for them one at a time? Cheap gimmickery will do for now. Better stuff to follow. OpenMoko cell phones have lots of embedded_gentoo folks busy as a bee. Wait till it's ready and the rank and file discover embedded Gentoo (plus QT4) on their openmoko cell phone.... We'll get lots of converts then to QT4. Of coarse other gui software will run on embedded gentoo on a openmoko cell phone, but QT4 is going to rule the roost, methinks. LGPL of QT4 will allow continued GPL goodies and lots of little companies will be building devices and software, but, the prices will be low and there will (hopefully) be a ocean of small electronics companies building more embedded linux based products. Forget GE and Siemens..... Time of the little companies to prosper (me_hopes). ciao, James
