Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:41:49 Paul Hartman wrote: > Okay, that makes sense and if it were able to gather all of that > metadata without me having to enter it maybe it could even be > useful... as long as it never queries the internet for that metadata. My post got too long and I subconsciously

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:09:38 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> wrote: >> > On Dienstag 14 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Alan McKinnon >> > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:09:38 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Dienstag 14 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Alan McKinnon > > > > wrote: > >> > There's a few keywords to start a search with - ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 14 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> > There's a few keywords to start a search with - nepomuk, sematic desktop >> >> Maybe I just don't "get it" but all of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 14 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > There's a few keywords to start a search with - nepomuk, sematic desktop > > Maybe I just don't "get it" but all of the descriptions of this stuff > flies way over my head. Admittedly, as so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > There's a few keywords to start a search with - nepomuk, sematic desktop Maybe I just don't "get it" but all of the descriptions of this stuff flies way over my head. Admittedly, as soon as I see the word "social" being applied to my persona

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 14:50:37 Stroller wrote: > I find Exposé immensely useful on my Mac and I love the "genie" effect > when maximising & minimising windows; I can imagine a cool animation > when using virtual desktops on Linux. But clearly you're talking about > something more than that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Stroller
On 13 Apr 2009, at 23:17, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Something about KDE-4 and Qt4 grabbed my attention - maybe it's just the scope and possibilities of it all, and the sheer size of brass balls it takes to be the first to go that route with a mainstream product. I admire guts and vision lik

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread James
Alan McKinnon 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 b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 13 April 2009 22:36:19 James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > It's more than that. It's an experimental approach to a new way of > > thinking about desktops. > > Amen. Brah.. > > What I'm looking to do, is focus on voice interfaces to the desktop. I'd like to see a work

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > It's more than that. It's an experimental approach to a new way of thinking > about desktops. Amen. Brah.. What I'm looking to do, is focus on voice interfaces to the desktop. Most of my followers just want linux (naturarrly this means Gentoo for me) t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 13 April 2009 19:23:16 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Philip Webb wrote: > >> I'm quite willing to try new things, but KDE 4.2.1 is definitely a beta. > > > > But a very good one, at least for me. It has some features I want that > > KDE 3 simply lacks (mainly pl

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Philip Webb wrote: I'm quite willing to try new things, but KDE 4.2.1 is definitely a beta. But a very good one, at least for me. It has some features I want that KDE 3 simply lacks (mainly plasmids, Vista-like desktop effects and vastly better font rendering.) I

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Philip Webb wrote: I also didn't mention that Kmahjongg 4.2.1 doesn't allow you to edit the layout & its "traditional" tiles are ugly. You can use the old version. Nor is Okular a match for Kpdf 3.5.10. Okular is actually regarded as far better by almost everyone. I tried (re)moving .k