Tale of a little pixel

Another Plasma netbook screencast

Another screencast of yours truly: this shows the Plasma netbook shell running on a bog standard Asus EeePc 1005Ha.

It can be seen the new neat animations of the search and launch interface when results are loaded. What's neat is that it seems to run quite well on this pretty basic hardware and animations are just as smooth as they should be :)

OGG version

Running it

Hi

Thanks for the demo. I tested the latest Kubuntu package out on my 13" notebook and it works quite well. Would be interesting to try this out on an N900 :D ?

For those interested, you can switch between the two by killing plasma-desktop and Alt+F2 running plasma-netbook (and on Kubuntu installing the plasma-netbook package, obviously)

Thanks!

Sent from James (Anonimous) on 21/11/2009 at 22:04:09

Nice

I'm starting to like this netbook shell more and more, the animations look really nice. Thanks for your work on this

Sent from Raul (Anonimous) on 21/11/2009 at 7:50:58

Re:

@Lionel Chauvin: nope, it has a GMA950. and at the moment there aren't good Linux drivers for the GMA500, so you would get something much slower that that

@Emil Sedgh: uuh, hmm, perhaps some day :D

@JR: yes Qt 4.6 is quite faster

Sent from Marco Martin (mart) on 21/11/2009 at 6:05:18

igraphic chipset

The graphic chipset of an EeePc 1005Ha is an intel gma 500, aka poulsbo, no?

For being acceptable, it would have the same performance on an intel 945 or 950 used in most of netbooks.

Sent from Lionel Chauvin (Anonimous) on 21/11/2009 at 0:50:00

Launcher?

This launcher looks so cool. Would be cool if it becomes available as a plasmoid so that Desktop Activity users could use it as well.

Sent from Emil Sedgh (Anonimous) on 20/11/2009 at 22:04:19

Smoothness

So are these animations taking advantage of the new nifties in Qt 4.6? I mean, I have a live USB of the netbook preview of Kubuntu Karmic around here somewhere, and the animations on my netbook are *FAR* from as smooth. It has a "Newspaper" activity with some basic newspaper/comic/microblogging widgets set up by default, and scrolling that page is really not a pleasant experience.

For what it's worth, the machine is a MSI Wind U100 rebrand, so the graphics chipset is an Intel 945GME. The intel driver and mesa stack in use was from the xorg-edgers ppa, so really fresh-from-trunk.

Is it just Qt 4.6 being that much better?

Sent from JR (Anonimous) on 20/11/2009 at 15:50:13

favorites

Hi,

It would be great if the top-bar where the favorites are would change. Imo the left- and right-button just don't cut it as the user does not know how often they have to press right/left to reach what they want. A scrollbar is a lot faster in accessing.

Sent from mat69 (Anonimous) on 20/11/2009 at 15:35:40