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.'"

Maybe it does already

[Psychotria]

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.

I think it's great that there's now a place to 'request' features like this instead of on the KDE wiki or emailing the devs directly (hey, they're busy and don't always have time to reply, which I understand). On that note, I do my little bit by submitting src patches and (more often) editing the KDE wikis; I figure that each little bit helps.

Re:What's with all the hate?

[Lord Lode]

Because it really is something to hate. That's why. I worked 2 months with KDE 4.1 and then had to install KDE 3.5 again simply because it allows me to work much better and faster. I'm normally not the guy who goes around changing his linux all the time, but the fact that I actually took the time to go back to 3.5 and that I was incredibly happy when it booted back up and I was immediatly more productive, does that prove that something is wrong with KDE 4.X, at least for some people? Yes, I hate it.

Re:What's with all the hate?

[MrHanky]

KMail is a lot better. The desktop has more funtionality, if you like plasmoids (SuperKaramba doesn't compare).

Re:I got an idea

[tuxgeek]

neither posts above are troll. seems the trolls have mod points today. Bad troll! No donut for you today

I use KDE full time. KDE 4.1 - 4.2.1 are still unusable
4.1 was a development snapshot, but when 4.2 was released it was promoted as equal to 3.5.10 - this is not the case.
I compiled 4.2.1 on FreeBSD over last weekend and found an irritating delay to user input: mouse click anything and start finger tapping for 30 seconds waiting for something to happen. Seems all user input and system response suffers long delays. The machine hard drive was active but on a 3Ghz - P4 system there should be no delay with simple desktop interaction. Perhaps it needs tweaking for low latency, but that is over my head at this point in time.

I dumped Gnome years ago for KDE so switching back is like the idea of chewing tin foil, so KDE 3.5.10 is still the cat's pajamas in my book.