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THE KUBE IS BACK! (cdn.masto.host)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kde@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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[–] ioletsgo@wetdry.world 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You know, the Steamdeck's success might actually make that some kind of true

[–] ioletsgo@wetdry.world 6 points 1 year ago

@troyunrau i think the greatest thing to come from the steam deck is that people are slowly realizing that the aura of elitism thats infected the linux community for so many years is thankfully dying

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

2024 will be the year of the kube

[–] stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ioletsgo@wetdry.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ioletsgo @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I know, and think that KDE is the best DE available. I've been using it for more than 20 years.

[–] ioletsgo@wetdry.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ioletsgo @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social KDE is a great choice - and has always been, IMHO.
FreeBSD support is good, so you're not forced to use Linux to enjoy it.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

This is a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Yep, the 2000s are the next decade to come back, and I'm here for it.

[–] massonpj@fosstodon.org 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

My favorite open source story:

I was at the #Educause Annual Conference back in the early 2010s running SLED11 with the cube enabled. I was spinning away when the person next to me asked what it was and what OS I was running. I replied, "Linux" he said, "oh, that's for you technical types."

Later, same scenario (different person), but when I replied, "this is is Windows Longhorn, the pre-release of Vista," the person was so impressed with Microsoft's innovation.

[–] Thorndike@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Terrific! I used the cube several times to show the power of Linux to several windows users. Two were interested enough to switch over to Linux permanently. I know the cube is just window dressing, but never underestimate the power of an interesting display.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago

Fuck it I want the cube.

[–] AlexanderMars@mastodon.social 12 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social so does this mean I can finally stop complaining online that “Wayland isn’t ready” because the “mission critical software I use everyday doesn’t work” or am I missing something?

[–] yossarianuk@mastodon.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Beside the Cube, the Wobbly Windows was my fav feature. It's frivolous, but also so natural to grab a titlebar and having the rest of the window sloshing around like a wet rag.

[–] deneb@wetdry.world 12 points 1 year ago
[–] herzenschein@furry.engineer 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Cool thing: now you can configure zoom and set your own skybox for the cube effect.

[–] herzenschein@furry.engineer 4 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Oh yeah, another cool thing worth noting: the original cube in QtWidgets had about 4500 lines of code, this new one in QML has about 1000.

[–] etherbloom@chaos.social 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Bronkish@mastodon.social 6 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

I still play Nexuiz, so, I'm cool thinking it's 2006 for a minute.

[–] themilkman@shitposter.club 5 points 1 year ago

@kde @kde how can windows even wish to compete

[–] reaply@poto.cafe 5 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

May the might cube gods bless us today!

[–] lc_lol@framapiaf.org 5 points 1 year ago
[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do people find this useful as a desktop feature or is it just a meme?

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[–] hummel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 9 points 1 year ago

No, no. Honest to God it is back and working. It has also already been ported to Plasma 6.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

As was foretold

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't a cube have 6 sides? /s

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

The cube is on all our sides

[–] Bro666@social.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

@F04118F @kde

🤫 ! Let us have this!

[–] yuukayuuka@mastodon.cloud 3 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social already have it installed love it!!

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

all hail the kube

[–] ricardo_b@social.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social this reminds me of enlightenment window manager from 2006?

[–] TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Kube with a K in an e-mail app https://invent.kde.org/pim/kube

[–] Quilly@equestria.social 2 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social
Yes. It's a terribly cool effect (terrible in all possible interpretations XD)
@kde@lemmy.kde.social

[–] astro@firefish.intragon.org 1 points 1 year ago
[–] lefarfadet@mstdn.io 1 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social
Wooooooooot !
That's what brought me to linux back 200...4 ? 5?
Then it disappeared because (not sure here:) canonical wouldnt support compiz/beryl... or was it gnome2 ?

But now you tell me it's back and you made my day

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

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