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Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3 (Linux Journal)
Linux Journal's Ross Larson
presents a tutorial on making a KDE3 background
slideshow.
"My recent article about transitioning slide show backgrounds in GNOME garnered quite a bit of attention, so here's my first reminder of how to do the same thing in other desktop environments. This one will show you how to create a custom slide show backgrounds in KDE3."
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Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3 (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 17, 2009 17:45 UTC (Thu) by cma (subscriber, #49905) [Link] KDE3? Anybody still using it? :)
Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3 (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 17, 2009 18:58 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]
Yes, the supported Linux at my workplace is SuSE 10 which contains KDE3. On the other hand - slideshow in the background? One of the stranger ways to contribute to global warming...
Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3 (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 19, 2009 10:10 UTC (Sat) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964) [Link]
The multi-monitor support in KDE4 is apparently not working for at least some, so they have become stuckists, sticking to 18 month old distros, or "upgrading" to soooper stable distro's which came out last year, but base on 18month old software.
To the "animating backgrounds" comments, I used the feature shown in the article, but would call it "automatically changing the wallpaper every hour". Just newly found the same feature in KDE 4.3.4 in as Wallpapers Type Slideshow; didn't find it last time I looked; so it would appear to have a bit part in the future of the desktop.
Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3 (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 22, 2009 7:22 UTC (Tue) by blackbelt_jones (guest, #62623) [Link] Just last month, Vector Linux released a Classic KDE edition of Vector Linux 6.0, featuring a KDE 3.5.10 desktop. Judging from the forum, the response was overwhelmingly positive. About a month and a half ago, I released a live CD based on slax called Kiara. Kiara is the only distro I know of that is committed to run KDE 3.5 for as long as anyone is interested, even if I personally start using KDE4 It's strictly a homemade amateur affair, and I've only promoted it by mentioning it in a couple of forums and on twitter. It's been downloated 115 times that I can confirm, though maybe a dozen of those downloads were me testing the link. Timothy Pearson of Pearson Computing has been singlehandedly putting out a KDE3.5 version of Kubuntu. There's a Karmic Koala release. Recently, he left this comment on my blog: Hey, you might be interested in the development I've done on KDE3.5 since 3.5.10...I'm looking at setting up a new SVN branch on kde.org for it soon, but for now some of the main patches are available here: http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/patches Bugfixes, Compiz integration enhancements, ICC color profile support, and much more!
Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3 (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 19, 2009 17:36 UTC (Sat) by davi (guest, #18853) [Link]
I am a very happy user of Debian Lenny and its KDE 3.5
KDE 4.3 is a lot worse than KDE 3.5 due to main usability regressions.
Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3 (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 17, 2009 18:13 UTC (Thu) by jgjf (guest, #26728) [Link]
Yes, I do. Maybe by Ubuntu 10.04, I'll take a chance on KDE4 again.
Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3 (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 17, 2009 19:16 UTC (Thu) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link]
Hopefully the future of desktop development is not focused on animating backgrounds...
Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3 (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 17, 2009 21:06 UTC (Thu) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165) [Link]
No, it's focused on useless applications that only work on the KDE background ...
Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3 (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 18, 2009 14:14 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Hmmm apps only for a KDE background... Apps which only work for people who contribute to KDE? Interesting concept.
Aaah, you mean on the plasma workspaces. Plasma widgets. Like the systemtray and taskbar.
Well, plasma applets are slightly more portable than you portray - I had them running on my N900, for example. They are meant for phones, media centers etc. But yes, they work best in a plasma containment.
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