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Our company Malcer, the admin of the excellent blog Ext4, got its hands on Razor-Qt, a lightweight desktop environment developed in Qt, which promises to become an interesting alternative to KDE, especially for those who don't have very powerful machines. |
The behavior is very simple, as is the environment itself. We can now change the wallpaper extremely simply, place the panel at the bottom or top of the screen (at the moment, it doesn't seem like we can resize it) and manage the panel and desktop widgets / plugins. Widgets on the desktop? You are right. And as a surprise, they work in a very similar way to the KDE plasmoids: by right-clicking on the desktop, we choose the option "Edit desktop", and then the environment undergoes a small transformation and we see the "template" of the desktop . That is, we are shown graphically what elements we have, and for the moment we can change their place, delete them and edit them.
In the project, they are considering making a specific selection of lightweight Qt software to complete the environment. Many of those applications, like Qiviewer or QtFM, are worth being in such an environment.
Therefore, the taste in the mouth that this test left for Malcer has been excellent. A few more releases and we will already have a light and effective environment on par with the functionality of LXDE, and if EggWM continues to progress as well as it is now, we will have a purely Qt and C ++ environment running on our machines because of a really ridiculous memory consumption.
So, developers and packagers all, believe me this project is worth paying attention to, and if you want to collaborate, its code and configuration systems are really clean and easy to understand, so I encourage everyone to try it and spread it, because only in this way can this beautiful offspring begin to walk as many of us want.
Source: ext4 blog
Why do you think it may be the end of Kde? I think both have their pros and cons, like most things.
What I do think is that when it stabilizes more and is more polished (which is impossible now because it is very new) it could end with Xfce and Lxde thanks to Qt
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There is also QLWM, which is a window manager written with Qt4
http://qlwm.get.to/
No, I honestly don't think it's the end of KDE. It's just a tabloid title. 🙂 KDE is indestructible and is probably the best desktop environment available today… if it weren't for consuming so many resources…
Hug and thank you for commenting! Paul.
I think that if there are few resources, it is better to disable the desktop effects .. In my experience at the beginning with KDE it barely consumes 200MB of RAM (using Kubuntu) with both Intel and Nvidia cards (the latter with a Nouveau 3D driver since owner consumes something else)
I think that KDE can be run quietly on a PIV with up to 1Gb of RAM ... less could already be a problem but mainly due to browsers and the use of Flash, the real suckers of resources.
When using KDE with effects there is an apparent but not real slowness of the PC since desktop effects need that "slowness" to be visible. IF everything were instantaneous then the effects would not be seen….
Without effects it is as "fast" as any ... in reality it was still fast only that the effects had us dazzled 🙂
I tried it and it is not faster than others (LXDE or XFCE), I didn't really like it very much.
I hope it improves, since it is just on V0.5.
Ah ran it on a Netbook.
regards
It will always be good to have one more option when choosing desks, if it is not for your own personal use it can be useful for the old machine that a friend wants to rescue.
Wishing this project to prosper 🙂
Interesting! Thanks for the comments!
Cheers! Paul.
I know ... RUBUNTU !!!! 😛
Haha… don't be surprised that in a few years that new version comes out.
Cheers! Paul.
I'm going to prove it. On the desktop I use KDE and it works very well, and after 4 years, I said goodbye to gnome, I didn't like gnome 3 🙁 but the netbook I don't think KDE can handle me, so I use xfce, but I'm dying to use choqok there ! I'm going to try this one to see how it is, maybe that's how it can be 😛
Good point Lock and excellent observations.
A hug! Paul.
The same thing happens to me. I love KDE applications (they are definitely better than GNOME ones) but the desktop environment is a bit heavy for some compus (netbooks, notebooks, etc.).
Greetings Monik! Paul.
The title is very ugly and sensational, what end of KDE? are we crazy or what….
It's true ... it was a bit sensational. 🙂