I really like kde as a work environment and have been waiting for the speed-up that should come with kde 3.2+ and the latest gcc using prelinked binaries. The parameter $KDE_IS_PRELINKED set to one turns off kdeinit. Yopper has prelinked their kde for the past couple of years.
What I would like even more is a kde and X.org that would never hang or would throw up a console screen if the machine is too busy after a while. I also hope that the OpenOffice kde integration that Suse 9.1 contains makes its way into the other distros.
Talking about OpenOffice brings up what I see as the current opportunity in linux right now. My biggest wish for linux right now is that firefox/mozilla development environment is cleaned up with better documentation on writing extensions and writing applications that detached from the server. They have created a great community - now they need to give the tools to the community to release an explosion of great tools.
Open Office ui needs a cleanup. Themes would be great - allowing distros to make their OOO. Something like the mozdev (update.mozilla.org/themes) for OpenOffice. Much of this will come with OpenOffice 2.0. More on themes with OOo http://www.pcc-services.com/ooo-theme.html
And the Press Release from OpenOffice.org regarding themes and icons
Posted by Anthony at October 3, 2004 10:44 AM | TrackBack