Kubuntu: turning KDE into an operating system

Speaker: Jonathan Riddell

Kubuntu aims to be a pure KDE distribution. However there are a number of areas which need filled in before KDE is ready to be part of an operating system. This talk will look at what is missing in KDE before it can be a complete desktop. It will also look at some of the changes, some experimental some more common sense, that have been made to KDE for Kubuntu. Finally it will look at the related projects of Lauchpad and bzr and discuss their uses and possibilities.

Jonathan Riddell

Jonathan is a KDE developer who has worked on Umbrello UML Modeller and KDE promotion in Britain. His first patch to KDE was making ksirc beep, his latest is admin for the Oxygen icon theme. As an editor for KDE Dot News, Jonathan would like to encourage everyone to submit articles when they have any KDE related news. For the last two years he has been working on Kubuntu, the KGX distribution.