KDE's Plasma is heating up
If you visited the Plasma project's outdated Web site in past weeks, you might have gotten the impression that the team behind the project to revitalize the KDE desktop hasn't been up to much these past months. Delve into KDE's SVN repository, mailing lists, or the mind of lead developer Aaron Seigo, however, and you'll find a more exciting story.
KDE launched Plasma in 2005 to revitalize the desktop interface, which the project said had remained "essentially the same" as it was in 1984. The initiative sought to renovate the KDE desktop codebase for the upcoming KDE 4 release, as well as to make innovations to KDE 3's conservative interface. Key goals included marrying the Kicker desktop panel, KDesktop root window, and SuperKaramba widget manager into a single Plasma interface; providing a framework to make widgets easier to write; making the unified components more consistent both visually and in terms of usability; and making the desktop a more organic workflow environment.
This month work will intensify on Plasma's Zooming User Interface (ZUI), which is intended to shift the desktop's purpose from a "file manager view" used to display a static set of icons to a dynamic, contextual project management tool. The ZUI can be understood as a sort of reimagining of the virtual desktop metaphor.
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There is no doubt that the typical icons laying around your desktop could probably be a little more useful than they already are. Some operating systems are trying to dive into that by making the icon a representation of what the file’s contents hold, but I’ve wondered for a long time why so many services have neglected to provide a revolutionary new icon.
Now I’m not exactly an operating system developer, but here are some of the ideas for icons that I have come up with at one point or another:
KDE 4 to have Cool Icon Enhancement
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