Watchout KDE - Vista has a big ass analog clock too

[greggh]

I just saw this Vista screenshot on engadget and was struck by how similar it looks to the KDE4 desktop.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/25/micr ... sp2-still/

[allix]

There is a review of kde 4.2 svn
http://polishlinux.org/kde/quick-look-at-kde-42-svn/

The review looks fairly balanced , of course reviewing a development tree that changes daily will not show any product that the linux kde community at large will use, but still , its good to see development updates by people outside of the actual development team.

[jturning]

Is it just me, or does Vista just have the worst widgets? I'll take my KDE 3.5.9 widgets anyday.

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[allix]

funny desktop , i see amarok in the dock , yet xmms is running

[jturning]

funny desktop , i see amarok in the dock , yet xmms is running

Bashpodder loads all my podcasts into a single directory hidden by irssi. I have XMMS set to come up when I click on an audio podcast in the Konqueror file browser window. XMMS or Audacity are great simple little players for audio podcasts, as you can use the up/down arrows for volume, left/right to move around in the file. File associations and a good file browser make playing your media easy.

Amarok I use only for music. It's always loaded with what I'm listening to, so I can just hit [WIN]-x to play, [WIN]-c to pause, [WIN]-v to stop.... With the quick keys I only have to pull up Amarok to change what I'm listening to, which is a strength of Amarok with nice filters in a drop down or alphabetical listings. And in my man room, the computer is hooked into a full on surround sound stereo system, and how I listen to music on my stereo. Gigs of music that can easily be pulled up whenever I want. I have one CD tower out with latest purchases, but the rest of my CDs are in storage boxes in the closet. I am starting to move towards Amazon's MP3 store now since they're DRM free and pretty cheap when you buy albums.

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