KDE 4.0.0!

Chris Miller lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 23:57:35 UTC 2008


On Jan 13, 2008 3:52 PM, D. Michael McIntyre
<michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 January 2008, Chris Miller wrote:
> > How is the clock Vista-specific?  I saw that in a ton of places long
> > before Vista.  gkrellem and similar applications (dekoration IIRC) had
> > it long before Longhorn started rearing its ugly head.
>
> They never had a desktop analog clock widget in, what, over a decade of
> development.  Vista comes up with a desktop analog clock widget, and then so
> does KDE?  Coincidence?

I'm pretty sure deKorator had one.

> I doubt it.

AIGLX/Xgl stole Expose.  You're point?

> I've only looked at both Vista and KDE4 briefly, but my quick impression of
> both was that the one seemed to be taking cues from the other.

Gee, they all have mice, cursors, windows, a taskbar, and a button
that pulls up a larger menu of stuff to do.

I'm just waiting for a OSS OS X clone :)

> If this is true, it's not a crime.  I'm still a jabbering KDE fanboy zealot
> who worships the KDE project, so calm down.

According to MS, Linux and all attached/associated projects are a crime.

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