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KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”

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Re: KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”

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Nice!

I've been using virt-manager for a long time, but more KDE native solution is welcome.

Still waiting for virt-manager to add support for Vulkan rendering through libvirt.

Side note, not sure if it's specific to Kirigami, but a bunch of interfaces which use it have this excessive margin spacing feel to them.

Something like that happens with print-manager's configuration which is using Kirigami supposedly too.

Re: KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”

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Karton, Dutch for 'cardboard'. Chosen because it is a tool to handle (virtual) boxes, maybe?

No need to contact the Dutch for this one - I assume it's just "carton" with the C replaced with K

Ah, but the Dutch can get there without indirection which means they're faster than those label-swapping Anglo- and Francophones.

Re: KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”

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Nice, having a new alternative to virt-manager is great, especially a Qt one. Unfortunate it's using Kirigami and Qt Quick, I always felt the appearance and functionality is much worse compared to Qt Widgets.

Indeed, an alternative to virt-manager would be more than welcome. "What, you want to search the XML for a text string? Why would you want to do that? Undo? That's crazy talk!"

I had hoped KDE was over the K-named thing, but I guess not. At least Karton is better than Kvirt-manager.

Re: KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”

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Nice, having a new alternative to virt-manager is great, especially a Qt one. Unfortunate it's using Kirigami and Qt Quick, I always felt the appearance and functionality is much worse compared to Qt Widgets.

I think Qt Quick is a pretty generic level, you can make a lot of different interfaces with it. Kirigami is more specific.

Re: KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No need to contact the Dutch for this one - I assume it's just "carton" with the C replaced with K

Ah, but the Dutch can get there without indirection which means they're faster than those label-swapping Anglo- and Francophones.

I would have gone with a creative name like kvm.
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