Do More to Achieve Less?

The kickoff menu in KDE-four-oh provides the following options to leave a session:

Let’s say we select Logout. This generates the following dialog:

It’s always good to have a choice, a second chance to change one’s mind. But it does seem slightly overkill asking confirmation for the options selected from the kickoff menu earlier.

While there are definitely valid use-cases for the End Session dialog (such as electing to terminate a KDE session from a Logout plasmoid), it’s just another annoyingly extra step in the workflow from the menu option. Perhaps a good configuration may be to provide an option to skip the reconfirmation dialog in the scenario discussed above.

PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniMe Released

To quote Texstar from http://www.pclinuxos.com

Here is a little MiniMe 2008 (296mb) you can play with and customize the way you want. Comes with 2.6.22.15 kernel, Alsa 1.0.15 and a very basic KDE 3.5.8 desktop. This is a minimal LiveCD that is bootable, plus it can be installed. Add in your own background, window decoration, localizations, preferred applications and supporting libraries to fully trick out your desktop. In addition you can remaster your own custom version of PCLinuxOS. Have fun!

Window decoration is Linsta Squared:
Credit to: Nagy Ferenc
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Linsta+Squared?content=51287

Background comes from kde-look.org:
Credit to: Yanike, Anortix, sparX CG and Jeff Rash for making the original theme.
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Yanike+Vista+Aero?content=59346

Other changes:
I moved Internet setup and Clock setup to a Utilities folder on the users desktop. Only one question at boot to select the keyboard. Other utilities
include Alsa sound configuration, Ati/Nvidia installation tool (requires network connection), Make LiveCD GUI, Make Live USB key and Redo-mbr with os-prober for adding other grub boot entries into your grub menu.  Root password and user setup moved to first boot after installation to harddrive. Also included on the livecd are ndiswrapper support files supporting various wireless network cards and more.

More Information here:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=38479.msg295579#msg295579

Again, this is a stripped down version of PCLinuxOS. You will have to customize your desktop the way you want with your own preferred applications through the Synaptic Software Manager.

provenance

n. a place of origin, as of a work of art

petersham

n.

1. a thick corded ribbon used to stiffen belts, etc
2. a heavy woolen fabric used for coats, etc
3. a kind of overcoat made of such fabric

sleeping policeman

n. a bump built across a road to deter motorists from speeding