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KDE 4 Era begins

Date: January 11, 2008. Categories: news, kde, linux and ubuntu. 2 Comments

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Today it was announced that KDE 4.0 is finally released and as it was proudly noted in press release, with this major version the KDE Community marks the beginning of the KDE 4 era.

kde 4.0 logo

K Desktop Environment was created in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich, who was troubled by UNIX certain aspects and proposed the formation of not only a set of applications, but rather a whole desktop environment, in which users could expect things to look, feel, and work consistently.

Major version KDE 4.0 comprises numerous improvement that can be grouped as follows: libraries, desktop, applications and artwork. Full list of updates and improvements is too long to quote it here, so you might read it from protosource (:

Official announcement page, KDE 4.0 Visual Guide

Here are some significant points of the new system:

The KDE 4 Desktop has gained some major new capabilities. The Plasma desktop shell offers a new desktop interface, including panel, menu and widgets on the desktop as well as a dashboard function. KWin, the KDE Window manager, now supports advanced graphical effects to ease interaction with your windows.

Visual updates through vector-based artwork, changes in the underlying libraries, user interface enhancements, new features, even new applications -- you name it, KDE 4.0 has it. Okular, the new document viewer and Dolphin, the new file manager are only two applications that leverage KDE 4.0’s new technologies.

Soon after KDE Community announcement, Kubuntu KDE 4.0 live CD became available and it is one of ways to get familiar with new KDE 4.0 today. ~ 550 MB ISO images are freely downloadable here (servers are overloaded right now, so be patient ).

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Linux pop-up terminal/console utilities

Date: September 13, 2007. Categories: screenshots, kde, tips, gnome, linux and ubuntu. 0 Comments

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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KDE on Nokia Internet Tablet n800 and n770

Date: September 12, 2007. Categories: kde, hacks and mobile. 0 Comments

The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is a wireless Internet appliance from Nokia. The N800 was developed as the successor to the Nokia 770. It is designed for wireless Internet browsing and e-mail functions and includes software such as FM and Internet radio, an RSS news reader, image viewer and media players for selected types of media.

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KDE and all it’s supporting programs have been compiled for the Internet Tablet, and it works b-e-a-utifully. I've installed this sucker on my N770 and it purrs like a kitten, believe it or not

kde_n800

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Review of sticky notes applications for GNOME

Date: September 11, 2007. Categories: screenshots, kde, gnome, linux, reviews and ubuntu. 0 Comments

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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KDE 4.0 Beta 2 released. I'm moving to KDE from Gnome :)

Date: September 6, 2007. Categories: kde, gnome and linux. 1 Comment

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.