Plasma Netbook

KDE on your netbook. Sounds pretty. The eye-catching style of KDE 4.3 is growing on me, actually. And so I am beginning to wonder how it would be like to use it instead of GNOME. Heading to the KDE page on the Plasma Netbook made me drool. The interface for KDE on the netbook has the SAL acronym which stands for Search and Launch. Sounds like something I’d definitely use. The reason why I love using GNOME-Do is that the launcher just lets me search for stuff instead of looking for them in their supposed exact location. And now KDE will adopt such an interface. Coolness.

Interestingly enough, they made an application switching widget on the top left corner. Aside from that, this particular flavor of KDE makes it easier for users to access social networking and microblogging services quickly. There are also widgets that you could put into pages. Whatever widgets you want, you could manage them via pages.

If you are loving KDE, then we both have something to look forward to in Lucid Lynx’s release this April. The preview was released with Ubuntu 9.10. There are quite a number of limitations to the design of plasma netbook. Some of them regarding screen size and how icons look on them, others are related to the size of the applications when launched. There are also customizations that are lacking. However, there’s only one way to know if it’s ok despite the limitations.