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Trinity and the Challenges of Continuing KDE 3
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| This morning, while having my usual Cafe
| Latte (albeit this time in Berlin instead
| of at home sweet home in Nijmegen), I read
| about the Trinity project, which is an
| effort to revive KDE 3. I think this
| project nicely shows the advantages of Free
| Software. While the vast majority of KDE
| contributors agrees that KDE 3 is a dead
| end, technologically, these two guys
| (according to the somewhat sparse
| information on the website) are trying to
| continue to support and feature development
| on KDE3. Now I see a couple of real
| challenges for this project:
|
| * Maintainance â KDE 3 is a large
| codebase. You need a good amount of
| people with domain knowledge of many
| different areas to effectively maintain
| a project like KDE. I see some of the
| first roadmap tasks for Trinity are
| updating the build system to deal with
| all the updated developer tools (e.g.
| newer autotools versions).
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http://vizzzion.org/blog/2010/05/trinity-and-the-challenges-of-continuing-kde-3/
Lancelot and KMail in 4.5
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| Every once in a while I write a post
| related to relations between lancelot and
| kmail or kopete.
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http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2010/05/28/lancelot-and-kmail-in-4-5/
Panel icon sizes in KDE SC 4.5
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| There were a lot of complaints when we
| decided to limit the size of icons placed
| on panels in plasma to 32Ã32 pixels.
|
| The reasoning behind limiting the size were
| requests from users who use vertical panels
| â vertical panels are usually made wider
| then standard panels, and icons would grow
| to 300Ã300 pixels taking up most of the
| space on the panel.
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http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2010/05/28/panel-icon-sizes-in-kdesc-4-5/
New In KDE Partition Manager 1.1 (I): Mount Management
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| One of the most requested features after
| KDE Partition Managerâs initial release has
| been that users asked for a way to modify
| mount points from within the application.
| This came as a bit of a surprise to me
| because I would not have seen this feature
| to be in the immediate scope of a partition
| managing application. But, the user is king
| after all, and thus this will indeed be
| possible in KDE Partition Manager 1.1.
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http://blog.volker-lanz.de/2010/05/28/new-in-kde-partition-manager-1-1-i-mount-management/
Recent:
4.5 updates so far
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| Iâm not going to make a detailed post, just a
| screen-shot based overview of the new features
| you can expect in KDE 4.5.
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http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2010/04/15/4-5-updates-so-far/
KDE 4.5 Release Schedule Ready
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| Last week we finished the KDE 4.5 release
| schedule. The good news is that you can
| start organising your release party now,
| the expected date for KDE 4.5.0 is August
| 4th 2010.
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http://www.omat.nl/2010/04/12/kde-4-5-release-schedule-ready/
Five Improvements for KDE 4.5 (Part 2)
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| In my opinion, the KDE4 desktop is the most
| revolutionary piece of Linux software since
| the Linux kernel itself, and I appreciate how
| it strives to challenge old desktop paradigms
| and introduce new ones.
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http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=1447
Five Improvements for KDE 4.5 (Part 1)
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| 4.) Easier Theme Installation
| Another issue I had with KDE (even with the
| KDE3.x series) is that themes are so easy to
| install in GNOME, but a pain in KDE. While
| installing new themes is still easiest to do
| in GNOME (download, drag, and drop) KDE SC 4.4
| has made strides in this area, finally. It can
| only get better from here.
|
| [...]
|
| So, there you have it. Those are
| features/changes I wished for during previous
| KDE releases that have all materialized into
| reality. With such progress, itâs clear that
| KDE is moving at the speed of light, and I
| predict KDE SC 4.5 will be the height of the
| KDE4 series. What am I hoping for in that
| release? Stay tuned next week to find out, and
| be ready to share your ideas so we can help
| make KDE the best it can be.
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http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=1438
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