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Few days ago I've got the quickest way to run console commands in Gnome. There are three utilities known providing pop-up console: YaKuake, Tilda and Yeahconsole. All of them are included into Ubuntu apt repository and can be installed by corresponding commands:
sudo aptitude install yakuake
sudo aptitude install tilda
sudo aptitude install yeahconsole
At the next screenshot you can see all three utilities run at my laptop. Of course I don't them all at once but prefer Tilda as the most comfortable for me. YaKuake is designed for KDE and uses konsole to emulate terminal. Tilda and YaKuake have GUI configuration tool when Yeahconsole is configured by editing configuration file /usr/X11/Xresourses.
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Few will deny that applications allowing to create notes at Linux Desktop are very useful to plan one’s working/education process. As for me I use such applications in order not to forget something I want to do 
like blog posts came to my mind when I hadn't access to Internet, everyday system administrating tasks and others.
I tried several sticky notes applications for this purpose but only one seems to be the most suitable for me. It’s xpad. There are also some apps that can do the same, like KDE knotes, Tomboy Notes, gdesklet notes and other. You can see apps I tried at the next screen (top right is xpad).
To install xpad in Ubuntu, just execute:
sudo aptitude install xpad -y
Don't forget to make xpad starting automatically when you login by adding it to Gnome sessions.
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Looking at KDE 4.0 features like blogging functions, freezing and other, the mind to move from Gnome I currently to KDE 4.0 after it’s final release is coming often and often
The KDE Community proudly presents the second Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the feature freeze and the stabilization of the current codebase. Simultaneously the KOffice developers have released their third Alpha release, marking significant improvements in this innovative office suite. Both KDE and KOffice have benefited from the Google Summer of Code, as most resulting code has now been merged.
Official announcement…
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Date: September 3, 2007. Categories:
gnome and linux.
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
3rd September 2007 Claws Mail 3.0.0 is released. Now it’s GPLv3 and has the following updates:
- Added Tags feature
- Threads can now be sorted by most recent message
- Added "/View/Show or Hide/Column headers"
- Added 'watch thread' feature
- Enabled the running of folder Processing rules on demand
- Added options to stop/enable writing logs to disc, see Login page of preferences
- IMAP and News: Implement age-based caching: allow the specifyin of a threshold for the offline synchronisation feature, and whether old cached bodies should be removed. Accessible from the Folder Properties.
- and many other.
Further details regarding fixed bugs are available here.
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Date: August 8, 2007. Categories:
gnome and linux.
"About half a year ago i was looking around me and seeing stagnation in the gnome community. I was concerned that gnome had lost its momentum and that we were just making boring incremental releases that added very little new functionality.
I think i was very wrong."
Ryan Lortie
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At the next screenshot you can see all three utilities run at my laptop. Of course I don't them all at once but prefer Tilda as the most comfortable for me. YaKuake is designed for KDE and uses konsole to emulate terminal. Tilda and YaKuake have GUI configuration tool when Yeahconsole is configured by editing configuration file /usr/X11/Xresourses.
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