Hey,

Been watching a lot of 24 recently and in the latest series (5), I noticed a funky GUI.
Anyone know if there's a KDE port of it yet?
surely there must be??

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I too am an avid watcher of 24. I watched seasons 1-4 last summer on DVD. My wife and I are currently watching DVD's (from Blockbuster video) on Season 5 (we're up to disk 5 of 6). I've taken notice on the workstations that they show and correct me if I am wrong, but most of the workstations look to be all eye-candy and not a whole lot of substance. I mean that in the same sense as the interface on the Starship Enterprise is all for show.

Just like the CTU headquarters, all of the GUIs seem to favor darkness. I have a feeling that is a cinematic way of representing the fact that CTU is covert...in the shadows. Some of those offices are so dark I would torture Jack for a desk lamp.

I agree with you on the eye-candy aspect, however, since I saw them using KDE in series 3, episode 1 I believe, I keep my eye open for hints on *nix and kde/gnome. They pop up every now and again, which makes me chuckle.

But I guess its pure fanboism that makes me want a skin/gui that looks like the one at CTU.
I'm quite surprised noone has made one yet, as Trek has the whole LCARS thing covered.

btw, I didn't see series 4, what happened to Kim?

Have you found any screenshots of the workstations from CTU? I'm curious to see KDE as you described. As far as Linux and movies are concerned I was gitty to see Linux workstations with KDE being used for the CG rendering for Lord of the Rings. I forgot what show I was watching but when I saw the distinctive K logo in the bottom left of the bar and the monitor they were showing on TV it made me smile. (...even though I am currently a Gnome user)

Uhhh, in season 4, Kim works for CTU and ends up dating/marrying Jack's "sidekick." Jack thought that by keeping Kim working at CTU she would would be protected.....wrong! Kim continues to make stupid decisions and get herself in trouble...yada yada. I hope I didn't just get that confused with season 3. It's been a while. I watched season 4 in September.

It would be great if during one of the climactic scenes, someone at CTU needs to reboot all of their servers in order to avoid some kind of meltdown. When the systems boot back up you see a black screen for 3 long seconds followed by TUX in all his round glory followed then by the booting sequence. That would kick a$$.

Ahem....a little 24 Joke:

Do you KNOW why you haven't seen the CTU workstation as a KDE theme yet?



THERE'S NO TIME!!!!!!!

I believe this has a link http://dot.kde.org/1067616574/
Also at the start of series 2 has the gnome desktop on a laptop, when Jack is 'undercover' he's being checked out by the 'baddies'
I'm sure it was gnome anyway.

Also I'm sure I saw someone in House MD using a KDE desktop, again, it was the little K and the larger than windows taskbar.

I definitely feel KDE/linux/Gnome whatever you want to call it, is getting better as a desktop environment, in fact, i'd go all nix if it wasnt for the 10-20%% performance drop when i run WoWarcraft in Wine.

Hey, I just found that link you sent me and there is NO doubt that is a shot of KDE.

I went from Slackware to Ubuntu on my laptop and WOW....ubuntu is well designed for the desktop. It's not perfect, but it is easily the best thing I have seen yet. I am determined that 2007 is the year I remove WinXP from our "family" desktop machine and put Ubuntu with Wine for the small handful of "must have" Windows apps.

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