KDE Project Invites Ideas With Online Brainstorm

ruphus13 writes "In addition to working with the community for source code, KDE is looking to democratize idea creation and innovation via its new initiative called KDE Brainstorm. The initiative, which attempts to further decentralize roadmap decision-making by allowing popular ideas to be voted up, is outlined here: 'The KDE team recently announced the KDE Brainstorm initiative. KDE Brainstorm, in practice, works much like Dell's IdeaStorm — community members of all walks of life are invited to chip in their ideas for new and improved features and functions, with the wider community voting on (and fleshing out) these ideas. Ideas that generate enough interest are then reviewed further by developers, who work to make them happen. KDE Brainstorm officially rolled out March 20th, and the response over these first few days has been enthusiastic. In less than 24 hours, over 100 new ideas were proposed.'"

Re:Hmmm

[lbbros]

Bug reporting tools are quite inefficient for feature development (and that is why openSUSE has made FATE, for example). Plus you have to deal with duplicates, spam, flames... Our (I'm a KDE forum staff member) idea was to provide pre-screening, and also help users with voting, which reduces the amount of duplicate information and potentially "weeds out" bad ideas.

Re:Cashew - PLEASE provide a way to get rid of it.

[lbbros]

The Plasma developers have already spoken about it. And you *can* get rid of it by using a custom desktop containment. openSUSE does that, for example, although personally I don't mind the cashew (which is also way smaller in trunk, BTW).

Re:Maybe it does already

[baileydau]

And, maybe it might not be popular mentioning Windows 7 on /., but I really like the feature in Windows 7 beta where you can drag a window to a screen border and it resizes to the screen height and 1/2 the screen width. I imagine that this would be easy to do as a plugin for KDE, but (so far) I haven't been able to find one.

KDE does have a feature that is similar, but not the same.

If you right mouse click on the "maximise" button, the window maximises in the VERTICAL direction ONLY. Similarly, you can maximise to full width by clicking with the middle button.

Unfortunately, I don't know of anything to expand to 1/2 height or width.

Re:What's with all the hate?

[ChienAndalu]

Because 3.5 isn't available in many repositories anymore and bugs for 3.5 aren't being fixed because efforts concentrate on kde 4.

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Re:What's with all the hate?

[baileydau]

Because 3.5 isn't available in many repositories anymore and bugs for 3.5 aren't being fixed because efforts concentrate on kde 4.

Which of the major distros don't carry KDE 3.5 any more?? I use openSUSE and it is most certainly available.

Looking at http://www.kde.org/download/#v3.5 [kde.org] there appear to be binary packages for Fedora, Kubuntu, Mandriva, openSUSE

Whilst a lot of effort is going into KDE 4.x, the 3.5 line still seems to be worked on.

Re:Said with no wish for partisanship

[WindBourne]

What is the difference between "don't save" and "cancel", anyway?
You hit the exit button, and this pops up.

1. Save means save and continue with exit.
2. Dont save means do not save, but continue with exit.
3. Cancel means do not save and STOP EXIT.

There are many places where there are multiple operations occurring at one time.