KDE4 Desktop Effects Video Tour

Tuesday, December 4. 2007

KDE4 Desktop Effects Video Tour

I’ve now updated to the latest openSUSE KDE4 Packages and got another video (first one being: KDE 4.0 RC1+ Video Tour) to add, and it’s one all about the new KDE 4.0 KWin composite; that is, the new desktop effects that will be available with KDE 4.0.

The desktop effects are coming along nicely, with many plugins available. You will no longer need to run Compiz to get many standard and convenient composite features: they will be available right inside KDE. In many cases the plugins improve window management (like “present windows” or Compiz’s “scale” plugin), provide a little eye-candy to the desktop (like translucent windows), or are just useful in various situations, like mouse mark (handy when doing a presentation).

I've been a total Gnome convert since Ubuntu 7.10 came out, but this looks nice. Looks like I may be switching back soon.