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THE KUBE IS BACK! (cdn.masto.host)
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[-] ioletsgo@wetdry.world 21 points 10 months ago
[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ioletsgo@wetdry.world 6 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

2024 will be the year of the kube

[-] Grangle1@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months 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.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 14 points 10 months ago

Fuck it I want the cube.

[-] massonpj@fosstodon.org 14 points 10 months ago

@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.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I can't help but roll my eyes when Linux is labelled as "technical" when all I do all day is click on icons and pull down menus. It was slightly more complicated a decade or two ago, but then Windows was quite broken too at the time.

(ok, I do open a terminal now and then to check on stuff, but I could just use YaST. And I don't really have to check on stuff, as it's just working as intended anyway)

[-] massonpj@fosstodon.org 1 points 10 months ago

@AnUnusualRelic completely agree--and note, I was spinning the cube, i.e., desktop, to navigate to files, not cd'ing through directories.

You're point about GUIs is also spot on and reflects most users these days. I wonder why those "technical" users who use a Mac aren't deemed "content developers" (writers, designers) or "end users" even though they may use the MacOS terminal?

[-] Thorndike@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months 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.

[-] deneb@wetdry.world 12 points 10 months ago
[-] AlexanderMars@mastodon.social 12 points 10 months 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 10 months ago
[-] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] herzenschein@furry.engineer 9 points 10 months ago

@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 10 months 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 10 months ago
[-] Bronkish@mastodon.social 6 points 10 months ago

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

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

[-] reaply@poto.cafe 5 points 10 months ago

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

May the might cube gods bless us today!

[-] themilkman@shitposter.club 5 points 10 months ago

@kde @kde how can windows even wish to compete

[-] lc_lol@framapiaf.org 5 points 10 months ago
[-] hummel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago
[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] jerobarraco@mastodon.gamedev.place 4 points 10 months ago
[-] F04118F@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago

Doesn't a cube have 6 sides? /s

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

The cube is on all our sides

[-] Bro666@social.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

@F04118F @kde

🤫 ! Let us have this!

[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

As was foretold

[-] ricardo_b@social.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] yuukayuuka@mastodon.cloud 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

all hail the kube

[-] Quilly@equestria.social 2 points 10 months ago
[-] portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago
[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] lefarfadet@mstdn.io 1 points 10 months 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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