Oct
31
2007
All pieces together (Lancelot)
First of all, don’t sweat about the uglyfication of Lancelot’s theme in this screenshot. This was made just for testing purposes.
I am aware that this is the ugliest screenshot I’ve ever made, but I don’t care – it fits it’s purpose.
It demonstrates:
- Compositing – Yes, Lancelot now has true transparency thanks to Siraj’s QtDisplay class made for Raptor (I love free/libre software).
- Plasma’s applets – And, the second thing, Lancelot can load Plasma applets. Don’t know what’s the purpose of that, but it’s so awsome!
If you have read the commit digest feature of Lancelot, you know that these features were meant for 4.1, and not to be made right now. But, I get easily distracted from the main job by these small things.
The thing that will probably miss 4.0 although I was counting on it is the “Contacts” section. Most of the features related to it depend on the progress of Akonadi.
No pretty screenshoots no comments?
I tried Lancelot from SVN yesterday, it worked very well. Sure it felt strange to not click, but I really liked the extender mode – triggered the logout button multiple times just to try it out.
Your vision of the start menu seems to be the closest to mine, I really look forward to seeing the development of Lancelot. Keep up with the great work!
Comment by Hans — 1 November 2007 @ 20:42
Yeah, I’ll have to make a screencast next time
I’m glad if it works for you. If you want, you can click as well. It seamed better approach to allow clicking in no-click mode
Comment by admin — 2 November 2007 @ 08:17
In search for new KDE 4 apps I discovered “Lancelot” and I was amazed at once. I think this application will become one of the most important porgrams for KDE 4. It has all aspects for a modern launching of all actions. I really like this application and it summarize all things from other launchers like KBFX, Kickoff and Tasty Menu.
You make a good job. Thanks for that
Comment by Stefan Arold — 6 November 2007 @ 20:51