KDE Developer Working On Windows 8 Inspired Look

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 26 November 2015 at 05:22 PM EST. 18 Comments
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KDE developer Kai Uwe has written a blog post how he's working on a KDE Plasma setup to resemble Microsoft's Windows 8 "Metro" interface.

Kai Uwe has been working on some experimental hacks to resemble Windows 8, although Microsoft's default interface has changed with Windows 10. He's calling this work "U-Bahn" (the German equivalent of a Metro subsystem system) in reference to Microsoft at the time calling it Metro. This was just some brief hacking and he's not planning to see this U-Bahn project through to the end.


Separately for post KDE Plasma 5.5 development he's also working on Desktop Actions / Jump Lists, better Plamoid installs, and more. More details via this blog post.
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