Although I'm not a fan of UnityIf I recognize that it has many things that I like and I consider that its interface is ideal for devices with a reduced screen such as Netbooks.
Many will know that KDE can be customized to the point that it looks quite like Unity, but an important detail was missing: Pitchers and Lens. That is, that area that is displayed and allows us to search for applications, files and others, showing large icons.
Well, it's here Homerun, a full screen Launcher with content organized in tabs.
You can see a Screencast of one of the authors on YouTube:
With Homerun We can browse the installed applications and start them or add them to the favorites list to access them quickly from the home page.
Homerun lists our favorite places / folders and allows us to navigate through them. Clicking on an item in the "Favorite Places" section will list the contents of this folder, so we can navigate through folders to open a document without having to use a file manager.
Version 0.1.0 is now available in download.kde.org. The Git Repository is at projects.kde.org and there is also a PPA for users of Kubuntu.
Further information: KDE Userbase
In particular I hope that Homerun come fill the void that you have left in me KDE Netbook, that is, the session of KDE for these devices, which from my point of view, is pretty bad performance wise.
ahhaha Chevere .. Although I think that no Kde user would like to do this.
I know it looks like the mandriva / rosa marathon
a lot, but I'm left with mandriva
I'm not a fan of Unity, and less of KDE, but the only thing I miss about Ubuntu is this. I will see if I test it together with KDE. I'm actually more "Fedorian." Nice app.
Great, hopefully a version for Xfce will be out soon, ha I'm kidding.
Now that I think about it, Homerun reminds me a lot of Homer Simpson.
hehehehe, the same I say, it had not occurred to me.
So now Unity is nice and good? I am not saying this as a criticism of the writer of the article, I say it because I have always said that when other environments do what Canonical did with Unity then Unity will be nice although I do not think that in the opinion of the users of other distros and / or environments they accept that Unity is good. Anyway, I agree with @Jlcmux in saying that he "doesn't think that any KDE user would want to do this". For a reason GNOME users will continue with GNOME, either Shell or Classic (although I mean more to the classic). For something the users of MATE, Cinnamon or the different environments are users of each of those environments, because they like it better, not because they expect to look like Unity at some point ... for that they use Ubuntu and that's it. I dont know…
not that unity is nice and good. they are already used to unity.
The real superiority of KDE is that if you like a Unity-like menu, it's one click away. If you like a win7 or xp type menu launcher, it is one click away, if you like something similar to gnome2, it can also be configured as you want, if you like a macos type bar, you also have it.
Its components are not monolithic.
Try doing that with gnome-shell or unity.
+100
so is!!!!!
I don't know why people think that those who choose kde is because of its appearance, that can be achieved with themes, what you can do is ((user == development)? continue: + = «almost») what you are given wins it!
Personally, unity at the beginning I did not like it but I have used it and it has its good things, it is more ubuntu I like its look and feel icons and others what I do not like very much is its memory use or its performance looks bad when it runs but it's very good, maybe if they didn't depend on gnome shell so much I think it would be better. But it is a good environment.
Homerun has already replaced Plasma Netbook here. Better.
Have you tried it yet?
I love it !! I've been using it for a while. I use it as a background, I leave a screenshot
http://postimage.org/image/sllcsix8r/
Oh !! Great. How does it behave? How is the consumption and others?
I do not notice a greater difference than with the other application launchers in terms of resource consumption and it is quite stable.
And for the tools menu use window menubar (kdeplasma-applets-menubar)
One last question, is that Kubuntu or Arch? XDD
I know I'm annoying hahaha, but a "bundle manager" with the chakra logo appears there xD, by the way vicky, I liked the "black line" that runs through the navigation bar of the dolhpin, how did you do it? 🙂
x11tete11x that's a Bespin option. It is in Workarounds of the Bespin Configure
By the way, how did you put the tools menu on the panel?
Elav: from what I see in the screenshot, it could have been done in 2 ways:
1) with Bespin's Xbar
2) with the plasma-widget-menubar (Canonical appmenu)
http://i.imgur.com/OkLnX.jpg
Look for the plasmoid called "Window Menubar" (if you mean @vicky's screenshot).
Perfect, thanks!
Hello, I did not read the post, I just want to see what appears in the user agent xD
Honestly, it seems to me like the dope, it is very similar to the KDE "search and run" activity that is activated by doing 2 clicks xD
It is very nice, but it takes a lot of ram ahead.
How about Elav.
KDE, although it has a special configuration for netbooks, the truth leaves much to be desired, not only in performance but also in that it is difficult to use (I used it for 3 months on a laptop that I had thrown away) in addition to being very frozen. There is also a version for tablets, which is much better but I have not been able to install it on a desktop or laptop PC without having certain problems.
This "launcher" really if it is designed for screen optimization and very particular to netbooks besides that on a desktop PC it looks great. I am not a fan of unity but the truth for small screens, this "launcher" puts another twist on this environment.
I'm going to test it on a netbook that I'm about to remove windows from it and I'll put KDE and HomeRUN on it to analyze it.
It is true. I was excited to use the Netbook session on the HP Mini at work, but hey, the normal session works better.
They are really making me fall into the temptation to try KDE, since I am a Gnome-Xfce user, they are making me fall into the temptation. And more than it is a German desk, it already gives me the idea that it is a very… «fine» desk.
I'm about to try it Thanks !!!