Re: [tlug] [ot] Windows 7

[Phillip Tribble <rusher@example.com>]

steven smith wrote:
> Kenneth Burling wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Phillip Tribble <rusher@example.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> It looks good, dam good! I now feel shame =( . I sure hope kde 4.1 will
>>> blast this!
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5D43p4_qcY
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Honestly, I did not see anything new or unique in the demo.  Hell, half of
>> what they showed has already been in windows for several versions, they just
>> never thought to point out the more technical stuff.  :P
>>
>>     
> We got a demo of the current 4.1 last night at the NBLUG
> meeting.  Fabio Locati who gave the demo is an Italian
> exchange student here and one of the developers.
>
> The demo looked good.  He was using a dell laptop for the
> demo and I was quite surprised how much performance they are
> getting out of that little box for all the graphics
> transformations going on.  He gave 7/29 as the release date
> for 4.1.
>
> He also mentioned using the next QT release in 4.1  which
> has enhancements from the QT in KDE 4.0.  One of the games
> he demoed had marbles bouncing around in a box and the
> object was to keep your marble from getting hit by the
> others.  He mentioned that all the physics calculations were
> being done in QT.  Somehow it seemed strange to me that
> these calculations are being done in a graphics package, but
> the demo was impressive.
>
> He also mentioned something about supporting Windows as well
> as Linux and MacOS.
>
> This could be interesting...
>
> Steve S.
>
>   
I would love to use kde4 at work instead of explorer =) Kudos to the KDE
Team. Mac users will be able get a vista-ish WM for their over priced
elite machine.

-Phil