Comments on: Kubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 With KDE Plasma Netbook – Overview & Screenshots

By: ErKliv_73

ErKliv_73 — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:06:55 +0000

Desktop in picture nro 1 doesn’t look like that. You have to change first “Activities”. Many people have criticized the wallpaper, splash image with grey collar and i’ve to agree. But you can easily change it.

BTW – personally i like to change KDE Desktop as “netbook”-style just like you have in that picture. It’s nice to pick applications by that why. Some icons have been dropped also to low bar (i normally have there terminal, FF, Chromium, Thunderbird…)

By: Carrozza

Carrozza — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:49:41 +0000

I love this interface!
It looks and behaves almost exactly what I could imagine.
Good work KDE team, and Dan for this review.

By: gert

gert — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:59:14 +0000

i like how easy it is to go from full desktop to netbook mode…

i dont get how is KDE Plasma netbook differetn from KDE Plasma Active interface.
I saw the latter demoed for the upcoming Spark tablet and it is reallly, really nice for touchpad.

Are those two different interfaces competing or doing different things?
Will we be able to go from dekstop to netbook to touch interface…

would love to hear this clarified.

By: Craciun Dan

Craciun Dan — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:16:39 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. I used Clementine a while ago, but didn’t in a pretty long time so I guess I’ll try it these days again to see what’s new.

By: labatts

labatts — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 04:11:06 +0000

2 things:

The “alt-f2″ is called “Kicker”. It simply is not auto-started on login for kde-netbook. So, you simply add it to the startup items. I believe they did this because you can do most of the functions from the search bar already present.

Amarok being slow is not due to Qt. I would suggest Clementine as an alternative if you don’t like Amarok. Clementine runs fast, as is based on qt, no kde libs.