Many blogs have echoed the news about the new Artwork that Plasma 5.4 will present, which will basically be a renewed theme of icons and a wallpaper, which come from the hand of Ken Vermette.
Although they are not yet available for download this beautiful set of icons, if we can download the Wallpaper.
The author in his blog he explains the process of creating this complex wallpaper and the tools you used to create it.
Fiber: A new browser for KDE
But what many haven't talked about is a web browser experiment (or so it started) that Ken Vermette has been developing. Experiment that said by Ken himself, possibly will see the light very soon in a first and insipid version.
Default Fiber It will give us the option to put the tabs at the bottom of the address bar or right next to it, like Internet Explorer. Although its developer will also include the tabs at the top.
The idea of this browser is that it will be built based on extensions, that is, basically every option or functionality that it has can be activated or deactivated by means of an extension, so following the KDE philosophy, everything will be extremely configurable.
Currently, work is being done on implementing User Profiles (the same as in Firefox), where you can have separate profiles with different settings. In addition to that, Fiber will work closely with the KDE Activities, being able to use them as individual profiles.
And so comes Fiber, with a lot of good and interesting things that maybe, at once, is a substitute for failures like rekonq o Konqueror, which never work as one expects. Still, there is much development ahead.
another chromito: fsjal but it's pretty cute
XDD Chromite? XDD
Chromito: another of the many Chrome clones ...
@elav: Surely you will tell by the range of prismatic colors that was used in the background.
Oh by the way, I loved the wallpaper so much that I will use it on my partition with Windows Vista.
In Windows Vista it does not look the same as it does in GNU / Linux neither close nor far.
Do you still use windows vista?
Believe it or not, the guys at NetMarketShare put Windows Vista at 1.84%, which beats GNU / Linux with a modest 1.68%, and that version of Windows is on the heels of Windows 8 with 2.77%.
But if we look at the statistics of the W3schools edge, Windows Vista is still at 0.7%, being crushed by GNU / Linux by 5.9% in June.
Unfortunately, StatCounter sends GNU / Linux and Windows Vista to hell, and adds it to the category of "other."
It says experiment ... but again KDE and your own browser? If it continues, I hope it is not the cornerstone of the system and can be uninstalled without problems. A pity that they are re-inventing the wheel right in that area. When I get a desktop made purely in HTML 5 it would be understandable.
I'd like to see one 😮
I did not understand, what is wrong with improving the browser?
There is a desktop that is made mostly in HTMl5, JavaScript, and WebKit; the Deepin Desktop Environment of the Deepin distro. Very good in many ways: fluid, polished, modern, comfortable (I tell you this from my own experience). http://www.deepin.org/system.html
Beautiful, I loved everything they are doing lately, and this even more. KDE is really giving Gnu / Linux a very nice look.
Gnome too, I'm not saying no, but remembering the ugliness of Plasma 4, the truth is that everything they are doing seems magical.
The truth is that all this makes it a very strong option and, without offending those who like Gnome, the truth is that I think that Gnome could learn from this and give more configuration options on your desktop, so it adapts to the taste of each user .
I understand that Gnome wanted to focus a bit more on touch, but the truth is that I don't like that they have forgotten about the desktop user. I know there are extensions, but it's not the same, I really use KDE or Cinnamon for that, failing that.
Also, KDE knew how to distinguish between the traditional desktop and the touch desktop, and offers a desktop for both types of screens, although the touch option is not very good yet.
To be honest, I understand why the KDE makeover (knowing that the Plasma 4 artwork was too XNUMXs…), plus the use of subtle linear gradients gave it the kaleidoscope effect that the author wanted.
And as if that were not enough, the handling of the tools in Inkscape are slightly different from those of CorelDraw (I use both CorelDraw and Illustrator to understand Ken Vermette's suffering for making that background of the desktop).
Not two days ago, a graphic designer friend of mine told me that Inkscape already surpasses CorelDraw and the rest of the proprietary tools.
Hope that's true @elav.
@elav: That depends, because if you install Inkscape with everything and good plugins, it makes it beautiful. However, the great abysmal difference that exists between Inkscape and the rest of the vector graphics editing programs is the "unorthodox" way of using and handling these tools.
However, there are people who get used to either CorelDraw, or Adobe Illustrator, which are commercially the most demanded by various companies (that is, it has already become "canon").
If Inkscape had the same support as The Document Foundation with libreOffice, we would already be saving this dependency on proprietary vector graphics format and by now we would be using the SVG standard in a professional way (I save my Illustrator work in SVG for convenience to avoid problems when editing between one program and another).
I agree with you that GNOME is no longer what it was, it is no longer what it was (Music note symbol), but take it this way, GNOME exploits the touch, and perhaps many desktop people love it even if they do not have touch . KDE and the others continue to exploit the traditional.
KDE and its touch environment is horrible, so I would better do what I know how to do best, a desktop environment focused on one type of PC
There are people who like Gnome, it seems nice to me and everything, but KDE offers a much greater arsenal of options and configurations, that's what I say, it is good that they want to focus on the touch, it seems perfect, but the Maybe there should be options for those who want a different desktop. They could make it more configurable or offer two desktops with a similar appearance, the Gnome desktop that we all already know and another for the desktop user that can be further customized.
And I do not think that KDE should abandon the touch, because it is the future and if they do things well they could be more used in the future, also, nobody offers something like what KDE offers with Plasma Active at the moment, no matter how ugly .
The Wallpaper is great, but the browser ... For now, I continue with Opera Blink.
This artwork is better than the current one and I really like it.
Anyway elav I think you make a mistake when you say that Konqueror is a failure (although it can be said about rekonq), without today there would have been no webkit. What's more, there is some website that Firefox (also happens with Iceweasel which I am using right now) does not render me well and yet Konqueror does it correctly, as if it were the ie. Konqueror with the webkit engine works perfectly, the only bad thing that can be attributed to it is the lack of extensions due to the lack of support. It still passes the Acid3 test if you have the webkit engine activated.
That said, I would love for Fiber to be compatible with Firefox extensions since this way users of this desktop would have a decent browser for this desktop.
Can I install solid plasma on Xfce desktop?
You can install kwin on Xfce if you want. But, not plasma, because it is another desktop.
Hello:
Could you suggest a tutorial to install Plasma 5.x on Debian 8?
Is it already stable to use?
Salu2.
Yes, it is already stable. It happens that some will expect it to be even more so in version 5.5, but you can already find it in Manjaro or in Opensuse Tumbleweed and there will be no problems.
It's just magnificent that artwork.
Question, wouldn't it be more productive to work with the FireFox or Chromium team to improve integration with the environment? What a mania for KDE people that everything has to be specifically K ...
No .
I preferred to see my friend Wilber in Gimp 🙂
The new artwork looks great, looking forward to trying it.
I don't like it at all… I've been a long-time KDE user, and to tell the truth I've never really liked the default KDE colors or icons. But KDE is ultra configurable and I have it to my liking in minutes.