Kuartet Desktop 0.4.0.1 review

Kuartet Desktop project aims to create a visually appealing, easy to use desktop built upon KDE. Kuartet Desktop consists of a lib

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Kuartet Desktop project aims to create a visually appealing, easy to use desktop built upon KDE.

Kuartet Desktop consists of a library written around Superkaramba that makes it easy to write desktop applets that are integrated within a centralized desktop theme, a set of very usable desktop applets, and graphical configuration tools.

The main desktop applet is the Kuartet Manager, which provides quick access to documents, applications, bookmarks, etc.

Requirements:
KDE 3.5.1
SuperKaramba 0.35
Python 2.4
PyQT

Installing:

Download and extract kuartet-0.4.0.tar.gz

1. open a terminal and change to the extracted directory
2. copy kuartetlib/ to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
3. make directory /usr/share/kuartet or /usr/local/share/kuartet
4. copy the following directories into the directory you just made
- settings/
- themes/
- images/
- configdialogs/
- apps/
- plugins/
* NOTE: apps/ can be located anywhere.

Configuring:

To configure Kuartet, right click on any Kuartet applet and click Configure...
You could also run the scripts manually. They reside in configdialogs/.
Config files are saved to ~/.kuartet/settings/.

What's New in This Release:
The trash plugin supports drag-n-drop.
The DesktopBar menu has been changed to display KMenu.
This allows for access to applications if the Manager is not running.
A few class adjustments in kuartetlib have been made.