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[News] A Look at KDE4 Development, Desktop Metaphor Changes

maybe people will understand a picture.

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| What you're seeing there is a Plasma workspace with 5 activities 
| (aka "desktop Containments") zoomed out so that you can see them all. The 
| third one in the top row is a folderview. folderview, you see, is both an 
| Applet as well as a Containment; in fact all Containments are also Applets. 
| This purposeful design decision allows one to repurpose certain applets 
| as "things that cover my screen" or "things that appear in a panel" (to name 
| but two possibilities).      
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/06/maybe-people-will-understand-picture.html

FolderView is the awesome?! [updated]

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| For those who don’t know about FolderView: It is a Plasmoid you can add to 
| your desktop in KDE 4 to show files. It can also be used to emulate 
| the “normal” desktop (for those who really really want it) but let me show 
| you a few more very nifty things you can do with it.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| I hope this shows how powerful this already is now.
| But it will become even more awesome once Nepomuk search can be used with 
| this. (Or can it already?) Imagine showing all files tagged with “todo” 
| across your whole file system. Or how about showing all files related to your 
| thesis? Just tell it to show all files containing words related to your 
| thesis.    
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http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2008/06/14/folderview-is-the-awesome/

KDE Commit Digest

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| Improved drag-and-drop of applets, and enhanced usability using the "Panel 
| Controller" in Plasma. Grouping of notifications in the "Notify" Plasmoid, 
| and continued progress in the "NetworkManager" applet. Animations in 
| the "Pager" applet. SuperKaramba integration into Plasma is revived.    
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http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-05-18/

10 Best KDE Applications Not Included in KDE

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| 1. Amarok - The most popular audio player on Linux
| 
| The audio player of choice for most KDE users. Amarok is also the most 
| popular audio player on Linux offering a great audio experience and including 
| any feature one could ask from an audio player.  
| 
| 2. KTorrent - Complete BitTorrent client
| 
| [...]
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http://vivapinkfloyd.blogspot.com/2008/06/10-best-kde-applications-not-included.html

Screenshots on page.


Recent:

KDE 4 Progress: New plasmoids, Akonadi, KRunner and more

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| In spite of fragmentary information about changes, that I’ve published since
| my last insight (like the Amarok 2 visual changelog), I’ve decided after all
| to gather them all in
| one place. Hence, I invite you to the next insight of KDE 4. The revision of
| the day is 811150.
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-4-progress-new-plasmoids-akonadi-krunner-and-more/


Screencast: Showing Off KDE 4.1

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| KDE 4.1, which is supposed to become the KDE4 version usable by 'normal'
| people, is coming at the end of July. When Ars reviewed the beta release,
| they were positive in that it was moving forward at an "extraordinary pace".
| Despite the positive notions in the news, many seem to have problems actually
| seeing all the new stuff being done in KDE4 - just like how people fail to
| see the massive amount of work put into Vista. KDE developer Rafael Fernandez
| Lopez (I'm sorry for the lack of diacritical marks, an OSNews bug we're
| working on) decided to put together a screencast showing off all the new
| stuff coming in KDE 4.1.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/19814

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