New innovative KDE kicker replacement.

[slave]

I came across a project on sourceforge called slicKer, which aims to replace Kicker.  I thought it looked pretty good; more innovative and quite pretty.  It's still in the pre-alpha stage, but there are some nice mock-up screenshots showing interaction with little tabs on the bottom of the screen called "kards."  Here are some links:

http://slicker.sourceforge.net/   <-- main page

http://slicker.sourceforge.net/screen.htm <-- screenshots

http://slicker.sourceforge.net/menu.htm  <-- flash demonstration

http://slicker.sourceforge.net/compare.htm <-- gui comparision

[preacher]

Sorry, I dont like gnome. Im a KDE nut. It just seems smoother and looks better in my opinion.

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
I came across a project on sourceforge called slicKer, which aims to replace Kicker.  I thought it looked pretty good; more innovative and quite pretty.  It's still in the pre-alpha stage, but there are some nice mock-up screenshots showing interaction with little tabs on the bottom of the screen called "kards."  Here are some links:

http://slicker.sourceforge.net/   <-- main page

http://slicker.sourceforge.net/screen.htm <-- screenshots

http://slicker.sourceforge.net/menu.htm  <-- flash demonstration

http://slicker.sourceforge.net/compare.htm <-- gui comparision

You know, I actually like that Desktop. That is the first Linux GUI that I have seen that is worth looking at. I wonder why people pick on my BIASED thoughts.

[ January 24, 2003: Message edited by: X11: Doing YA MUM ]

[xyle_one]

it looks... slick! i dig it.

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:



You know, I actually like that WM. That is the first Linux GUI that I have seen that is worth looking at.

....its just KDE.

[TheQuirk]

Uh, Gnome is slow and buggy. If it was so great, more people would use it.

[TheQuirk]

Finally, someone takes up the task to make Linux look pretty. I'm happy.  

[slave]

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:
Uh, Gnome is slow and buggy. If it was so great, more people would use it.

Frankly I find KDE to be more bloated and buggy than GNOME these days.  The last time I used KDE the menus didn't fade properly, Konqueror refused to adhere to my AA settings, selecting text in Konqueror was slow, clicking a link and then clicking off of it left an ugly artifact on the screen, and so on.  I also find the control center way too confusing.  Major case of featuritis.  I also think GNOME 2 is slightly faster than KDE.  Red Hat has really improved it from 1.4.

[Doogee]

great link, definately a looker!

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:


Frankly I find KDE to be more bloated and buggy than GNOME these days.  The last time I used KDE the menus didn't fade properly, Konqueror refused to adhere to my AA settings, selecting text in Konqueror was slow, clicking a link and then clicking off of it left an ugly artifact on the screen, and so on.  I also find the control center way too confusing.  Major case of featuritis.  I also think GNOME 2 is slightly faster than KDE.  Red Hat has really improved it from 1.4.

I'm comparing Gnome 1.4 to KDE 3.0 (this is what my distro shipped with). From my experience, Gnome stinks /=.

[choasforages]

umm, redhat fucked kde up on version 8.0. and the flag's in the control center of kde, redhat should not have done that. as for a liquid look in kde, check out mosfets work at www.mosfet.org and yes, kde3 is way better then gnome2. everything in kde is more tightly intergrated then gnome will be

[voidmain]

I agree that 1.4 stunk. 2.0 is much better. As far as KDE being screwed up in Red Hat 8.0 it can always be changed if you don't like it, or even just remove KDE and install from kde.org. I mean c'mon, that's what open source is all about. The power to change. All distros customize it in some ways so I don't know what the big fuss is all about over Red Hat (I fussed a little in the beginning but I realize the error of my ways and have since repented). I was a big fan of KDE 3.0 as it is an excellent environment. I've been really happy with Gnome 2 and Bluecurve. But then GUIs in general aren't my thing. To me a GUI is nothing more than a place to hang a few bash terminals.  

[ January 22, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]

[choasforages]

you are thinking in a gnome user's way.  gtk's menus are a mess. kde on the other hand, has nice menus that remember were i have been so i don't have to go all over the file system when i want to save a file. i just click the pull down menu and click it. and the K menu being a mess, edit it yourself and make it better.  and if you are going to ask about trivial featrues, how do i get gnome to change desktop's every minute, how do i get it to zoom icons, how do i get highly intergrated features. if im not incorrect, if they add something to libkde, all kde programs can benifit, like the cups module and the scanner module. however, gnome does keep getting better, and it didn't have the licening issue that kde used to. and it is a damn good example of how software should evolve. instead of getting slower, they made it better and speed this shit up

[Master of Reality]

everyone knows enlightenment looks the best.

[slave]

Now which is easier to write programs for?  KDE 3.x(Qt) or GNOME 2.x (GTK2) ?