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Interview With Netbook Master Marco Martin From the KDE Plasma Team
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| What part of KDE development are you
| involved in?
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| I mostly work in the Plasma team, on the
| library and on the main workspaces: Plasma
| Desktop and Plasma Netbook.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2010/02/21/interview-netbook-master-marco-martin-kde-plasma-team
day 2 of tokamak 4 (and a bit about day 1, too)
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| Yesterday was the first full day for Tokamak
| 4 with most of us having arrived from near
| (e.g. right here in town) and far (Brazil,
| Canada) the day before. We had a great series
| of presentations to catch each other up on
| where we are right now and where we are
| going. I opened the proceedings with the
| usual "state of the plasma" presentation
| where, after recapping the motivations and
| core design values we had defined together
| over the past couple of years, I likened our
| efforts to those of a sculptor. We had before
| us just raw materials, a rough-hewn stone if
| you will: Qt4 with QGraphicsView in it's
| earliest infancy, KDE 4's libraries and a
| simple vision.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-2-of-tokamak-4-and-bit-about-day-1.html
Recent:
KDE 4.4 Mail Misunderstanding Explained & Akregator Surprize
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| I've gotten quite a few responses to my
| quickie look at KDE 4.4 under Mandriva
| written for this week's Distrowatch Weekly.
| One of which came from Aaron J. Seigo
| himself. I thought I might share some of
| what he said since several people expressed
| similar concerns on the topic here in
| comments. I also found one really super-
| duper neato new feature in Akegator in 4.4
| that deserves a mention.
|
| [...]
|
| Akregator used to display polls and such as
| plain text, but with 4.3.2 polls rendered
| in radio-button or clickable format. That
| was kinda nice. But today I discovered
| something even better.
|
| For Webmasters/bloggers/whoever that allow
| such, videos can now be watched right from
| Akregator. I don't know any real details,
| if only certain formats are supported and
| such, but I'm almost thinking they'd have
| to be oggs. I'm not sure if Flash videos
| would work as I disable all such in
| Konqueror/KDE. I'll check next time I see
| where someone embeds one in a feed.
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/43245
Personalizing KDE 4.4
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| Sticking with our KDE theme this week, itâs
| time to learn how to make KDE 4.4 yours.
| Youâve downloaded it, youâve used it, and
| now you want to personalize it. You might
| find things are a bit different than the
| KDEs of yore (especially if youâre just
| coming into KDE from 3.5). But no matter
| what release youâre coming from, itâs
| always good to know where and how to
| configure the look and feel of your
| desktop.
|
| In this article I am going to show you how
| to make KDE 4.4 look and feel just the way
| you want it to. We wonât bother getting
| into setting up Compiz, this is just
| straight up KDE goodness. Nor will we
| discuss the installation of KDE â I will
| assume that is already complete.
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http://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/17/personalizing-kde-4-4/
KDE 4.4 Review, Screenshot Tour (and KDE 4.0 Comparison)
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| 21,000 closed bugs later, the KDE team has
| announced the new KDE 4.4 and I simply had
| to take a look. After all, the last time I
| took KDE 4 Series for a spin was back when
| I still thought open source was one word.
| To think I actually praised this thing:
|
| Most of you will remember the flak KDE got
| for releasing an immature desktop
| environment experiment as âgoldâ, and
| rightfully so: even though many Linux
| distributions almost immediately included
| it, nobody could really fit the unstable
| KDE 4.0 into their workflow.
|
| [...]
|
| This review of course depended greatly on
| the quality of the KDE 4.4 integration in
| Fedora 13, so take it with a pinch of salt,
| though Iâm confident you will get pretty
| much the same experience on production
| releases. I recommend you try KDE 4.4 only
| if you have a decently powerful machine, I
| wouldnât run it on a netbook, to be honest,
| it consumes more resources than other
| lighter desktop environments. The KDE guys
| are doing an excellent job and they deserve
| more users, so give v4.4 a try, it might
| just be a keeper!
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http://www.internetling.com/2010/02/17/kde-4-4-review-screenshot-tour-and-kde-4-0-comparison/
KDE Review: KDE 4.4 Comes in from the Cold
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| Between radical changes and limited
| functionality, the KDE 4 series got off to
| a rough start. However, with each release,
| KDE 4 has improved steadily and silenced
| more critics. Now, with the KDE 4.4
| release, the series has reached first
| maturity.
|
| Those who expect everything to behave
| exactly as it did in the KDE 3 series may
| still struggle with 4.4. But, for those
| willing to accept change, 4.4 has no
| shortage of new features to offer, ranging
| from the implementation of several long-
| term directions to enhanced usability on
| the desktop -- including Plasma Netbook, a
| new interface designed specifically for
| netbook computers.
|
| [...]
|
| But, by far the greatest desktop innovation
| in KDE 4.4 is one that is also the simplest
| -- the ability to group windows by tabs.
| This feature is implemented by a single
| item added to each window's menu. Yet the
| implications for easing users' workflow is
| immense.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3865126/KDE-Review-KDE-44-Comes-in-from-the-Cold.htm
Five useful KDE 4.4 widgets
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| With the rise of KDE 4.4 comes a new crop
| of desktop widgets (or Plasmoids). Earlier
| renditions of KDE 4.x saw the Plasmoids
| less than useful. The latest workings,
| however, have become quite useful,
| productive even.
|
| In this article I will introduce you to
| five of those Plasmoids that can help your
| productivity in one way or another. I will
| also show you how the Plasmoids are now
| installed.
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http://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/16/five-useful-kde-4-4-widgets/
Installing KDE 4.4 in Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora And ArchLinux
http://techie-buzz.com/linux-tips/install-kde4-4-in-opensuse-ubuntu-fedora-archlinux.html
KDE SC 4.4: A Worthy (though not perfect) Upgrade
http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=1389
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