After nearly two years in the making, the KOffice project will release version 2.0.0 of if its cross-platform office suite of the same name this week, adding features like scripting support and a new shape library.
Read more »The Egyptians are coming!
As you all know KDEGames is by far the most innovative, and well designed part of Linux, and of KDE in particular. But in this release cycle we have literally jumped over our heads trying to please you.
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Gmusicbrowser: A possible replacement for Amarok?
'm very picky when it comes to music players, so I tested: Rythmbox (obviously, it comes with Ubuntu), Jajuk, aTunes, the new Exaile and Banshee, Songbird, Guayadeque, GMusicBrowser and Amarok 1.4 and 2
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Things I like about KDE4.
There's been quite a bit of hubub about the KDE project ever since the 4.0 release. Critics have slammed the 4.0 series repeatedly. Between the poor publicity, the crashes in Plasma, and the still-developing early features, KDE was definitely not having a good time. However, for all the bad rap that the 4.0 series received, KDE has grown wonderfully.
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Qt vs. GTK: Konqueror, Arora, Firefox, Midori, Epiphany
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that, at least in my opinion, KDE is losing out to GNOME because there simply aren’t as many Qt applications as GTK ones. This is the second in a series of articles comparing different kind of applications.
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Selective list of Plasma changes for KDE 4.3
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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The KDE 4.3 beta: KDE Returns to Incremental Releases
With the release of the KDE 4.3 beta, the project is returning to incremental releases, and concentrating on customization and ease of use on the desktop, the panel, and system settings.
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Qt Now Open for Community Contributions
Today, we at Qt Software have opened our repositories to the public. Any developer can now help guide and shape the future development of Qt by contributions of code, translations, examples and other material to Qt and Qt-related projects. We have also published our roadmap and released Qt Jambi under the LGPL. Read on for details.
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Get The Most Out Of KDE4’s Folderview Widget
One of the most innovative and simultaneously controversial features of KDE 4 is the Plasma widget, Folderview. Simply put, it allows a user to display the contents of a file system folder within a widget on the desktop.
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8 KDE 4 Distributions
There are many KDE distributions, but some have refused to move to KDE 4 and have stayed with KDE 3.5 instead like Mepis, Sidux and Slax. Here is a list of KDE 4 distributions to help distro-hoppers with their searching:
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Top 10 KDE4 Applications
Here's a list of great applications for the KDE 4 desktop such as Yakuake, Amarok 2, and SMPlayer.
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KDE Brainstorm Monthly Digest - issue 1
Hello, and welcome to the first “issue” of the KDE Brainstorm monthly digest. There are quite a number of ideas being posted on the KDE Brainstorm, and it would be nice to know how the initiative is faring.
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Is Gnome Desperately Chasing KDE?
The Internet has a habit of making anything you say obsolete as soon as you say it. No sooner had I compared the future of the GNOME and KDE desktops than GNOME announced that a version 3.0 would be released after all.
Read more »CONSOL 2009
«I participated at CONSOL 2009 and had the opportunity to give 4 talks this time and meet with "the software libre community"...»
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Introducting KDE 4: Akregator News Feed Reader
Welcome to another issue of the Kontact series, this week we will give a look to Feeds part of Kontact, I used to use this application on KDE 3.5, and it seems like it didn't change much. But this isn't a bad thing.
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