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KDE SC 4.4.1 Review
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| KDE developers have always put big efforts
| on this department, and this version
| continues to deliver. This is obviously
| very subjective, but I am liking what I am
| seeing. I have to admit I was hoping for a
| bigger step forward, but it is a nice
| progression over KDE 4.3.x. Some new menus
| have been added, some features have been
| rearranged and a few seem to have been
| removed.
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http://cristalinux.blogspot.com/2010/03/kde-sc-441-review.html
Interview with Aleix Pol of KDE Edu and KDevelop
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| Hello again to all the KDE people. We are
| here with a third interview. Last time we
| had Tobias KÃnig, a KDE PIM developer.
| Today itâs the turn of Aleix Pol, a
| contributor to KDE EDU and KDevelop. As
| usual, there is also the original interview
| in Italian if you prefer to read that.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2010/03/29/interview-aleix-pol-kde-edu-and-kdevelop
Clementine-player - A cross-platform music player based on Amarok 1.4
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| Clementine is a modern music player and
| library organiser. Clementine is a port of
| Amarok 1.4, with some features rewritten to
| take advantage of Qt4.
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http://www.ubuntugeek.com/clementine-player-a-cross-platform-music-player-based-on-amarok-1-4.html
Get Organized With BasKet
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| Looking for an Evernote replacement on
| Linux? Take a look at BasKet! The BasKet
| Note Pads project is moving full steam
| ahead once again. The project has just
| released the first beta for BasKet 2.0,
| which is the long-awaited port to the KDE 4
| platform using Qt4 and KDE 4 platform
| technologies like Akonadi and Nepomuk.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/get-organized-with-basket
Yet another *full blown* database [1]
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| Last weeks I've been looking (again)
| whether or not it was possible to create a
| working sqlite back end for Akonadi. The
| last time I tried was around august last
| year and by then sqlite just wasn't able to
| meet the multi-threading requirements that
| Akonadi has for its database back ends. A
| couple of sqlite releases later things seem
| to have changed. I managed to clean up some
| problematic code paths in Akonadi server
| and voila, we've a sqlite back end that is
| on par (unit test wise) with the mysql back
| end.
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http://bertjan.broeksemaatjes.nl/node/53
Marble, an Atlas for your Desktop
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| While looking for some applications similar
| to Google Earth I bumped into this KDE
| educational project Marble. Its a 3D Atlas
| and Virtual Globe application that aims to
| help students, teachers or anyone, in
| learing more about Earth, Mars, Moon and
| Venus. It provides a whole lot of features
| other than just the Atlas, with an
| interface similar to Google Earth.
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http://linuxers.org/article/marble-atlas-your-desktop
digiKam Film Grain tool re-written...
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| Finally, this new version of Film Grain
| tool will be available for digiKam 1.2.0,
| which will be released in few days. I hope
| that you will enjoy this tool...
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http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/510
[Review] Clementine 0.2 Music Player in Ubuntu
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| Clementine is basically a port of Amarok
| 1.4 to Qt4. Techie Buzz author, Sathya
| Bhat, has already covered Clementine when
| it was at a very early stage of
| development.
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http://techie-buzz.com/foss/review-clementine-0-2-music-player-in-ubuntu.html
Very rough plans for K3b 2.1
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| MichaÅ (the lead K3b developer) is busy
| preparing K3b 2.0 for release. However we
| have some rough plans how to proceed after
| that release. Iâd like to share them with
| you.
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http://kamikazow.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/very-rough-plans-for-k3b-2-1/
Plasma Javascript Jam: Open For Submissions!
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| We're cool with people re-submitting their
| Plasmoid if they make some improvements or
| catch some odd bug after sending it in and
| we will be testing Plasmoids against the
| latest ScriptEngine in the 4.4 branch,
| though if your Plasmoid requires (for
| whatever reason) the ScriptEngine from
| trunk we can probably accomodate that in
| the judging.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/03/plasma-javascript-jam-open-for.html
krunner, QDBusServiceWatcher
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/03/krunner-qdbusservicewatcher.html
KDE at Solutions Linux 2010
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| This week was the week of Solutions Linux
| 2010. A 3-day exhibition held in Paris,
| gathering companies, LUG and other
| associations. As always, KDE France was
| here.
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http://agateau.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/kde-at-solutions-linux-2010/
KOffice 2.2 Beta 1
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| The KOffice team is happy to announce the
| first beta of the upcoming 2.2 release of
| KOffice. This release brings back Kexi, the
| data management application similar to MS
| Access. The new beta also offers many new
| features and improvements, bug fixes, and
| improved support for Microsoft file
| formats.
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http://www.koffice.org/news/koffice-2-2-beta-1/
KOffice 2.2 Beta 1 Released
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| The KOffice team is happy to announce the
| first beta of the upcoming 2.2 release of
| KOffice. This release brings back Kexi, the
| data management application similar to MS
| Access. The new beta also offers many new
| features and improvements, for example
| improved support for Microsoft file formats
| with the addition of import filters for MS
| OOXML, and bug fixes.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2010/03/21/koffice-22-beta-1-released
KDE 4.3.4 is lighter than Gnome: Linux2u
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| Strange na but its reality KDE 4.3.4 is
| lighter than Gnome 2.28.I am going to prove
| it.On my machine Linux Mint 8 KDE 4.3.4 use
| only 135 to 160MB Ram while Windows XP
| 240MB and Gnome take around 210MB. While
| windows fastest edition Windows 7 uses more
| than 450MB RAM.Don't believe that KDE 4.3.4
| uses 145MB Ram,Lets have a look below.
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http://www.linux2u.co.cc/2010/03/kde-434-is-lighter-than-gnome-linux2u.html
Lancleot Part applet is deadâ
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| There were two main problems with the
| Lancelot Part applet.
|
| The first was the name. The name, although
| it does represent what the applet is
| technically, it doesnât really say what the
| applet is meant for and what it does.
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http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2010/03/21/lancleot-part-applet-is-dead/
New brush in Krita: Softbrush
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| I stared to change the function that
| produce the brush mask and affects itâs
| softness. I selected Gaussian as it is nice
| function and I experiment with this
| function, but I found it complicated to
| control it (you setup sigma, uh what is
| sigma, you artist ask?). So letâs add some
| different function to the brush mask code.
| Oh, letâs put this decision to the artists
| hands, letâs give him some curve he can
| model as he want. We already has nice
| widget for that in Krita, so use it. So you
| can setup the brush mask by curve!
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http://lukast.mediablog.sk/log/?p=224
muscle memory
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| A friend was showing me his Hackint0sh
| today, and while it was interesting to see
| that fine OS on an non-approved platform,
| it confirmed a few things to me, such as
| the idea that regardless of where it was
| installed or how hacked it is, I still
| wouldnât use it. This I knew already, but
| it was nice to come back to it after a year
| of not really having touched it and
| confirming what I already knew.
|
| [...]
|
| For years, before I knew how to create my
| own keyboard shortcuts really effectively
| in KDE, I would subconciously hit unique-
| to-App1e keyboard shortcuts (like command-
| shift-3 or command-shift-n) and expect them
| to work on KDE. Iâd do a double take when
| they didnât work, then my brain would kick
| in and override the muscle memory and Iâd
| do whatever the correct procedure was.
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http://notblog.titradio.info/?x=entry:entry100322-121653
KDE in the Google Summer of Code 2010
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| This summer the KDE project will once again
| participate in Google Summer of Code!
| Summer of Code will allow KDE to grow and
| bring in new developers to the community.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2010/03/18/kde-google-summer-code-2010
The Tokamak4 Files: Solid
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| This is the first article in a series of
| articles that wrap up achievements, work in
| progress and some background of what
| happened during Tokamak4, the Oxygen, KWin
| and Plasma sprint. Tokamak4 took place from
| 19th to 26th February 2010 in NÃrnberg,
| Germany in the openSUSE premises and was
| kindly made possible by Novell and KDE e.V.
| During the sprint, 26 hackers gathered to
| work on various aspects of the KDE user
| experience. The combined sprint of the
| workspace and window manager teams and the
| Oxygen artwork team made cross-
| collaboration possible across these KDE
| software components.
|
| In this article, we actually start off with
| a side-track of Tokamak4 which was hardware
| integration. It turned out that many people
| working on this were actually participating
| in Tokamak4, so the team took the
| opportunity to sit together and hack some
| on different aspects of hardware
| integration in KDE SC and specifically
| Plasma.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2010/03/18/tokamak4-files-solid
KDE Partying Around the World for New Release
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| KDE's Plasma Team took the opportunity of
| their Tokamak 4 get-together to also
| celebrate the release of KDE SC 4.4. The
| team went out for dinner and then headed
| straight into a Karaoke bar, where various
| performers brought real culture to this
| part of Frankonia. One highlight was Chani
| performing the German 80s anthem "99
| Luftballons" and making everybody in the
| audience be in awe of her mad language
| skills. Previously, Sebas had taken the
| stage to present a KDE version of The Man
| in Black (Johnny Cash) performing Ring of
| Fire. After a good couple of hours of
| Karaoke, the team decided to move on and
| conquer a 70s-style bar in the heart of
| Nuremberg to lift the glasses on a great
| KDE SC 4.4 and a successful Tokamak 4.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2010/03/21/kde-partying-around-world-new-release
semi-random thoughts for the day
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| We also need to learn how to define
| ourselves by our successes and see our
| failures as interesting, expected and
| required by-products of the road to those
| successes. There are people in the
| community who look at our success in
| countries around the world and discount it
| all as being "not relevant" because it
| isn't in the country they live in, and
| therefore conclude Free software has failed
| generally. Similarly when we talk about
| using KDE (or other F/OSS) software in
| production usage, instead of defining our
| successes and positioning ourselves in line
| with them we too often discount all
| possible usage of that software because of
| failures that affect only a portion of the
| market. This leads to us eliminating
| ourselves from entire market segments that
| we are perfect for just because we aren't
| (yet? :) universally perfect.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/03/semi-random-thoughts-for-day.html
Recent:
KDE Software Compilation 4.4.1 Out Now
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| KDE has released an update to the 4.4
| series of our Software Compilation. Among
| other improvements, this update includes a
| fix for KMail hanging when sending emails
| that just missed the deadline for 4.4.0 and
| a number of fixes in many gearheads'
| favorite terminal emulator, Konsole.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2010/03/02/kde-software-compilation-441-out-now
KDE Software Compilation 4.4.1 Release Announcement
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| KDE Community Ships First Translation and
| Service Release of the 4.4 Free Desktop,
| Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance
| Improvements and Translation Updates
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http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.4.1.php
The difficult choice of removing features
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| Where does that leave photography ? Well
| clearly, it is out. And honestly, between
| Gimp (especially with their work on 2.8)
| and Digikam, there is not really much room
| for an other linux photography application
| to prosper. Since Krita was always more
| oriented toward drawing and painting, and
| photographic features were available mostly
| because âwe canâ, and there is no high-end
| application for drawing and painting on
| linux, the logical conclusion, for us, was
| to focus on where we can be the best, and
| the most useful.
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http://blog.cberger.net/2010/03/02/the-difficult-choice-of-removing-features/
KDESC 4.3+: Video, Music, Image and Document Preview in Dolphin
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| The left circle shows the Preview Mode
| Button. We will expand on this option
| below.
|
| On the right is the Information Panel,
| which in addition to showing info about
| the file (type, size, modified etc.),
| will allow you to preview the majority of
| files (Text, Image, PDF, Open Document).
| This happens after you select a file or
| hover your mouse over it.
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http://www.mygnulinux.com/?p=576
KDE 4.4: Does It Work Yet?
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| If youâre a KDE fan, itâs time to jump in
| at version 4.4.0. It does work. I
| appreciate what the KDE developers have
| accomplished with this new version and am
| anxiously awaiting a look at KDE 5.0.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7712/1.html
Using Tabs in the Taskbar: Improving Desktop-Application Integration, Visual Hierarchy, and Usability in KDE
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| These ideas are also very preliminary and
| would require further thought,
| consideration of edge cases, prototyping,
| and testing. Mostly, this is just thinking
| aloud to see what others think about this
| idea.
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http://www.obso1337.org/2010/using-tabs-in-the-taskbar/
KDE SC 4.4 Release Party â Copenhagen
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| Last night we had the Copenhagen release party
| for KDE Software Compilation 4.4, concurrently
| with the weekly SSLUG meeting.
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http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/kde-sc-4-4-release-party-copenhagen/
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