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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: KDE - The joke's gone on for far too long.
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-02-15 1:28:47
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Bart Szyszka wrote:
> 
> > if you like Blackbox, freaking use it.  The rest of us will use KDE.
> 
> Why isn't anyone mentioning that KDE2 actually has a Blackbox-like
> feature? I think it's under the menu that lets you add panels or applets.
> It's called the Kasbar and it's basically an iconbox like Blackbox
> has them. There are pictures at:
> http://www.mosfet.org/kickerkwin/

There are some cooler ones at:
http://www.ipso-facto.demon.co.uk/kde/kasbar-tng.html

This is with the current CVS code (and beta 2). You have to enable
the flashy stuff manually right now, but I'll release a new version
as a standalone release after 2.1 with a proper config dialog.

Rich.

> 
> By default, KDE2 isn't any less or more great than Windows, Mac,
> BeOS, etc., but when you start customizing it, it becomes superior.
> A lot of stuff is simply disabled (for example, the desktop and
> panel icons can be made to support alpha transparencies so that they
> have nice drop shadows... you can enable that in Kcontrol under the
> icon style stuff).
> 
> - Bart

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     Richard Moore		rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk
http://developer.kde.org/	rich@kde.org

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