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Kde Vista-esque Environment Suggestions?


dirtvoyles

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I'm just curious if anyone has seen a desktop for KDE that comes anywhere near the Vista look. While I deplore M$ and their pay to play OS, I do think their upcoming desktop looks slick.

 

I have heard rumours that the shading isn't possible in linux, but there has to be a way. There just has to be...

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Good Luck and let us know what you find.

 

My understanding is that Vista requires a pretty powerful video controller to run the Glass functions, something much more powerfull than the majority of video cards installed today. Also, I'm not even certain the hardware requirements are complete yet. Vista will be fully out in 2007. In order for KDE or any Linux environment to use these video features a specific hardware driver would have to be written, IF it's only a driver issue, and that takes time.

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Well, I was looking at the spiffy XGL graphics last night and tried to setup to use them. I learned how to fix a lot of things after it didn't work.

 

On a positive note, I did get Xgl working on my Ubuntu laptop at work today. Only for about 10 minutes, but it was sweet while it lasted.

 

Only 2 months until Dapper, only two months...

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