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KDE Community Delivers Incremental Innovations With New KDE 4.3 Release
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| The KDE Community today announces the immediate availability of "Caizen",
| (a.k.a KDE 4.3), bringing many improvements to the user experience and
| development platform. KDE 4.3 continues to refine the unique features brought
| in previous releases while bringing new innovations. With the 4.2 release
| aimed at the majority of end users, KDE 4.3 offers a more stable and complete
| product for the home and small office.
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http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php
Ongoing Oxygen Icons Usability Survey: KDevelop
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| Every few weeks Nuno Pinheiro and the KDE Oxygen Icons team are publishing a
| new usability survey online to get feedback from users on the look and feel
| of icons. In particular, the Oxygen team is looking for feedback from
| individuals that have had no exposure to KDE, so if you are at home or at
| work, poke your friends and family and have them complete the survey, or
| simply take the survey yourself.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2009/08/03/ongoing-oxygen-icons-usability-survey-kdevelop
Recent:
A first look at KDE 4.3
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| If you've been avoiding KDE 4 because of that, or other issues, it's finally
| time to give it a try. I think you'll find, as I have, that this new KDE is
| finally ready to compete with its older sibling KDE 3.5.11 and GNOME 2.26 for
| anyone's Linux desktop.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/a_first_look_at_kde_4_3
KDE 4.3 Shaping Up Nicely, KWin Needs Work
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| Overall though, KDE 4.3 is shaping up to be a nice release, and it brings
| some much-needed fit and finish to the KDE4 desktop environment.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/21899/KDE_4_3_Shaping_Up_Nicely_KWin_Needs_Work
KDE4.3 in Kubuntu
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| With KDE 4.3, I think I will start using KDE part-time again, so congrats to
| the KDE team for their bold move to rebuild their desktop from scratch! ÂI
| hope Gnome 3 brings an equal amount of innovation.
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http://nocturn.vsbnet.be/node/164
KDE 4.3 Looking Good
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| There's a new Qt and Plasma theme in KDE 4.3 that looks pretty nice. Overall
| every release of KDE4 seems to become more stable, more polished, more
| eye-candy (if you want it).
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http://briancarper.net/blog/kde-43-looking-good
KDE's new Plasma netbook interface shines in small places
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| A new Plasma-based custom KDE desktop shell is designed to deliver a better
| user experience on netbooks and other devices with small screens. Ars takes a
| look at the prototype to see how it compares to the conventional KDE desktop
| environment.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/07/kdes-new-plasma-netbook-interface-shines-in-small-places.ars
Shared Desktop Notifications from Canonical
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| Aurelien Gateau and the rest of the Canonical Desktop Experience folks have
| been working super hard to get the visual notifications on KDE and Gnome
| united as part of their Project Ayatana. This involves uniting the Galago and
| KDE VisualNotification DBus interfaces. Along the way freedesktop.org had to
| get fixed to make such cooperation possible
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4028
The KDE 4 Journey
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| Since then, I think the project has come a long way.
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http://hnaik.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-still-remember-how-eagerly-i-had.html
KDE 4.3 RC3 Codenames "Cay" Out For Testing
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| The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.3 RC3,
| a release candidate of the 3rd iteration over the KDE 4 desktop, applications
| and development platform.
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http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3-rc3.php
KDE 4.3.0 RC2 Codenamed "Canteras" Released
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| The KDE Team has released another release candidate for KDE
| called "Canteras". It contains only few changes compared to RC1 which
| suggests that the 4.3 is stabilizing and shaping up well for the 4.3.0
| release on 28th of July. KDE 4.3.0 will be followed up by a series of monthly
| bugfix and translation updates. Testers are asked to report bugs in this
| release so 4.3.0 becomes a release as smooth as possible.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2009/07/09/kde-430-rc2-codenamed-canteras-released
KDE 4.3 RC1 in Kubuntu 9.04 - Overview & Screenshots
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| I took some time today to install and take for a spin the latest version of
| KDE4 today, release 4.3 RC1. I installed the packages from the Kubuntu
| backports repositories, as explained in this tutorial. All the screenshots
| were taken at 1280x1024 and desktop effects enabled.
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http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/07/kde-43-rc1-in-kubuntu-904-overview.html
KDE 4.3 RC1 Release Announcement
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| KDE Community Ships Release Candidate of KDE 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing
| Many New Features and Improvements
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| July 1st, 2009. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability
| of KDE 4.3 RC1, a release candidate of the 3rd iteration over the KDE 4
| desktop, applications and development platform.
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http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3-rc1.php
KDE 4.3 Plasma Overview Screencast
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| Ho, ho! Finally! The KDE 4.3 Plasma screencast arrives! It's 10:36 in length
| and covers some of the nice improvements we've in Plasmaland for 4.3,
| including:
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| # The new Air theme
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| # Small panel sizes
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| [...]
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/kde-43-plasma-overview-screencast.html
10 Awesome Features of Krunner in KDE 4
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| Many KDE 3 users depended on Krun, a simple yet effective application used to
| execute commands. Executed simply by pressing âAlt-F2â, it was much easier to
| start applications using it, rather than navigating through a launch menu or
| opening a terminal window. The only catch with Krun was that you had to know
| the exact name of the command you intended to launch. ÂWith the advent of KDE
| 4, that has all changed.
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http://maketecheasier.com/10-awesome-features-of-krunner-in-kde-4/2009/06/29
Yakuake - Great Quake-Like Terminal Application for KDE4
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| A while ago I wrote an article called 13 Terminal Emulators for Linux, where
| I briefly reviewed all those popular shell-like applications and a few
| flavours of xterm or rxvt. In this article I will talk about Yakuake, a
| powerful terminal application for Linux, and also the KDE counterpart of
| Tilda in GNOME.
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http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/06/yakuake-great-quake-like-terminal.html
KDE 4.3 RC + Lancelot themesâ a bad combo
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| Just as a note, since Air is now the default theme for Plasma (and whatâs
| worse, it is even called âdefaultâ instead of âairâ), youâll see that the
| Lancelot themes in 4.3 RC are screwed up. Unfortunately, I wasnât able to fix
| this before 4.3 RC tagging today (I was too late to discover the issue in the
| first place).
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http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2009/06/24/kde-4-3-rc-lancelot-themes-a-bad-combo/
KDE 4.3 branched, trunk is now 4.4
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| The release team has just done something a bit different from past release
| cycles to test out some modifications to our usual work flow: with the
| release of the first release candidate, 4.3 has been immediately branched off
| of the mainline trunk, and trunk is now 4.4. In the past we've done this only
| when the new release is actually made, not during the release candidates.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/kde-43-branched-trunk-is-now-44.html
On KDE4.3
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| We are almost one month far away from the kde4.3 release. Yesterday the 4.3
| rc1 was tagged and due to excellent work of our colleagues in OBS we have it
| already.
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| Personally, I would have liked it to go a little bit further away in terms of
| usability, we will speak about that later. ÂThis release will mark the break
| with 3.5. I see no real reason for not using kde 4.3. All the functionality
| that people were crying after from 3.5 is finally up and running (a lot of
| time better) in KDE 4.3.
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http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/06/24/on-kde43/
KDE 4.3 Beta 1: A Short Preview
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| There are a ton of features in KDE 4.3, more than I could possibly mention in
| one article. It seems that there are improvements all over the place.
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http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=389
Selective list of Plasma changes for KDE 4.3
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| Aaron Seigo has published a list of changes and new features to Plasma, the
| desktop shell for KDE4, that will be included in KDE4.3. This list is quite
| long, so I will only try to show the most important changes.
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/selective-list-of-plasma-changes-for-kde-43/
KDE 4.3 Beta 1 - looking pretty
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| Looking back for a moment, there's no question that KDE 4 has had a very
| rough ride. Certainly, version 4.0 was a disappointment for many users,
| lacking features and functionality to make the move from 3.5 worthwhile.
| Version 4.1 started to repair the damage, and 4.2 padded it out to be good
| all-round desktop (don't miss our top KDE 4.2 tips!). Will 4.3 be the first
| 4.x release to win over armies of Gnome fans?
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http://www.tuxradar.com/content/kde-43-beta-1-looking-pretty
KDE 4.3 Beta 1 Out For Testing
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| The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.3 Beta
| 1, the first preview of the 3rd iteration over the KDE 4 desktop,
| applications and development platform.
| KDE 4.3 focuses on polishing and completing the user experience by providing
| a modern and beautiful Free working environment. KDE's award-winning tools
| and applications are available in more than 50 languages. The KDE team is now
| in bugfixing mode in order to provide a smooth KDE 4.3.0 to end users in late
| July.
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http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3-beta1.php
KDE 4.3: First Widget for Social Desktop
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| A widget has been included in KDE 4.3 as the first implementation of the
| âSocial Desktopâ which allows the user to view other KDE users in his or her
| city or region.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/kde_4_3_first_widget_for_social_desktop
KDE 4.3 - early preview
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| Like it or not, KDE 4.3 will be a great leap forward in this environmentâs
| development. I wonât hesitate to say, it will be a bigger one than KDE 4.1 to
| 4.2. Interestingly enough, my compilation of development snapshot worked
| stable and jerk-free - no major issues there.
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-43-early-preview/
wallpapers and other bobbles for 4.3
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| We have a number of new Plasma components lining up to make it into 4.3. Not
| least among them is a geolocation DataEngine, making it absolutely trivial
| for anything Plasma to get at the information either via a GPS device or by
| looking up the location of your network address if you are online. Along with
| a handful of new widgets, some I've already written about recently, we also
| have no less than six new wallpaper plugins that may make it into 4.3!
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/04/wallpapers-and-other-bobbles-for-43.html
Air and KDE 4.3.
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| Air was the wallpaper we introduced in KDE 4.2, but that is just the
| beginning of something larger. Air is supposed to be different than what
| Oxygen is, something that tries to appeal to a user base looking for a
| more "sexy" experience than Oxygen (yeah I know you are out there :) ), but
| to still have the capability of merging nicely with what we have now.
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http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2009/02/air-and-kde-43.html
Five Improvements For KDE 4.3
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| The new year has already brought us a nice treat in KDE 4.2. I found it to be
| a very solid desktop, yet with some issues that keep it from 100% perfection.
| Iâm happy to say that 4.2 occupies all of the computers that I use, yet there
| are still some serious problems that remain. Last year I did an article
| similar to this one, detailing the things I feel would make the KDE desktop
| rise to a higher level of perfection, and now that KDE 4.2 is released, itâs
| time to do it again.
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http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=180
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