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dgellowtoday at 8:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

> A desktop that loves you back has to know you. Personal AI has crossed the threshold where the desktop itself can be compiled per user, per device, per moment, from a small portable model of the user – what we are sketching as Kadai: an encrypted, vendor-agnostic personal kernel from which Plasma assembles each Activity.

Sounds like a gimmick that will be annoying after a week. Users who aren’t KDE developers don’t want a desktop to love them back, in fact they don’t care or want to think about their desktop beyond launching their apps and window management.


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sajithdilshantoday at 8:54 AM

That was my thought exactly. I don’t even remember last time I looked at the desktop because I always have some app open full screen.

I kind of understand the intention like show a custom compiled widget stuff, but then that would be a custom dashboard and not a desktop. Even if it was a dashboard, I don’t wanna burn tokens to create gimmicky widgets

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Sharlintoday at 9:03 AM

Yeah, this may be a case of "this project is really important to me so it must be really important to the users, too".