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Marble is a polished jewel
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| Marble is a spectacular piece of software. It is beautiful, thorough,
| detailed, well laid out, fast, robust, and responsive. And you can enjoy it
| without any needs for a powerful graphics card. It runs well on modest
| hardware, which only makes it even more wondrous.
|
| For people who like geography, Marble is a great bonus. It also seems like an
| excellent tool for teaching people (and kids) the wonders of our Planet in a
| fun and exciting way. I wish I had something like this when I was growing up!
|
| Marble is simply great. You have to try it!
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http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/marble.html
Recent:
KDE 4.1.2 Release Announcement
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| KDE Community Improves Desktop with KDE 4.1.2 Codenamed "Codename"
|
| KDE Community Ships Second Translation and Service Release of the 4.1 Free
| Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and
| Translation Updates
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http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1.2.php
Marble: 'Googe Earth Lite' Comes Free With KDE 4
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| And, finally, probably the best thing of all the good things about Marble: It
| is Free/Open Source Software, promotes the use of free maps...
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http://reddevil62-techhead.blogspot.com/2008/10/marble-googe-earth-lite-comes-free-with.html
Marble integration with KOffice
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| Right now the Marble Team is heavily working towards KDE 4.1 Beta2:
| Jens-Michael is working on further improving Marble OpenStreetMap support,
| Inge is working on the Mercator Projection, Patrick is working on further
| improving KML for his GSoC 2008 project (which actually deals with vector
| rendering in Marble), Claudiu is working on his Satellite Plugin and Henry is
| working on texture colorization and Temperature / Precipitation maps. I'll
| continue to work on GeoPainter and Marble's new plugin architecture which
| will enable other developers to write Qt-Plugins for Marble to render their
| own layers and their own data.
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3483
KDE 4.1 Beta1: OpenStreetMap Support in KDE via Marble
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| The hero of the current Marble KDE 4.1 Beta1 release is Jens-Michael
| Hoffmann: He has successfully worked on getting OpenStreetMap integrated into
| Marble and KDE 4.1!
|
| This means that once you start our free software virtual globe and
| select "OpenStreetMap" as a theme then Marble will directly start to download
| OpenStreetMap tiles from the OpenStreetMap server...
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3475
Marble's Secrets Part III: The Earth in a Download
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| In Part III we'll look beyond Marble's offline mode: We'll get to know how
| Marble fetches its data from the internet.
|
| [...]
|
| Actually I've met a lot of people recently who weren't aware of the fact that
| Marble downloads further texture data from the internet while browsing the
| map. On one hand the reason for this misconception is maybe the fact that we
| only provide very little additional online data right now (about 400 MB). On
| the other hand the map download is done automatically and very seamlessly in
| the background, so people will hardly notice. Â Â
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3275
Marble's Secrets Part II - Walking In The Shoes Of Slartibartfast ...
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| In Part I we have seen how easy it is to create your own maps for Marble.
| We've also seen how this works down to the zoom level of aerial photos or
| OpenStreetMap. Part II will show how Marble manages to provide the biggest
| bang for the byte when it comes to providing map data. It outlines how we
| managed to get the default map squeezed into the 10MB package that the
| Marble-Qt version gets shipped with. We basically show ... Â Â
|
| Why Marble is the perfect choice for Asus EeePC, OLPC & Co and some Embedded
| Devices ... Â
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3272
Marble's Secrets Part I: Behind the Scenes of Marble...
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| If you've ever followed KDE 4 development then you've probably heard about
| Marble. Marble is a virtual globe which displays the earth. So Marble can be
| used as a nice digital replacement for your desktop globe at home where you
| can look up places. Â
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3269
KDE 4 rev 802150: Work in progress
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| KWin with Wobbly Windows
|
| Kwin features a new visual effect known to most of you from Compiz: the
| Wobbly Windows. Only a few days ago the settings panel for this effect had
| tons of detailed options. Most of these options have been disabled now, the
| only thing that can be configured is the window deformation level while in Â
| motion. This seems more appropriate for a common user since the number of
| configurable settings was overwhelming before. One minor flaw that I noticed
| in KWin Wobble Windows is that the window shadow is not properly deformed (it
| does not adjust to the current shape of the window). Â Â Â
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-4-rev-802150-work-in-progress/
KDE 4 rev 790000: Better stability and performance
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| This is another revision of the development version of KDE 4 environment.
| Lots of you have asked why it took me so long to publish this article. Well,
| I was just waiting for rev 790000, thatâs all. I hope that your curiosity
| will be satisfied since thereâs been a lot of changes to describe this time.
| I did my best. Â Â
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-4-rev-790000-better-stability-and-performance/
KDE 4.1: Visual Changelog (rev 783000)
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| You donât always see this in the official changelogs but the KDE 4
| development is progressing in an extraordinary speed. After a deep look at
| rev 777000 we are presenting you a new visual review of changes made to KDE 4
| during the last couple of weeks. Â
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-41-visual-changelog-rev-783000/
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