In the last few days I managed to install openSUSE 11.0 on more than 6 desktops, helping my friends on setting up the distribution, and on one of them I encountered a strange problem, running KDE 4.0. The problem occurred with the Audigy 2 ZS card, same as the one I have. From forums I [...]
For openSUSE 11.0, Stefan Dirsch and the rest of the openSUSE Xorg team has worked hard to ensure that AIGLX is enabled by default for all supported hardware. This means that you can run Compiz or other desktop effects such as those in KDE 4 without having to directly enable Xgl or edit xorg.conf manually. [...]
The KDE team have done a huge effort of making KDE 4.1 series a really usable desktop. Here is what KDE 4.1 will bring to end users soon, plus more in final release. This video was made by Rafael, a KDE proud developer, using the latest 4.1 trunk (SVN) version.
Now, if you have used Vista [...]
May 27, 2008 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project is proud to announce the first beta release of KDE 4.1. Beta 1 is aimed at testers, community members and enthusiasts in order to identify bugs and regressions, so that 4.1 can fully replace KDE 3 for end users. [...]
Aseigo - “I just committed a change to the default desktop containment that removes desktop icon support. Yes, it has finally happened … no more splattering icons from the “desktop” folder across the screen.”
The idea seems neet, but I will have to see it and try it out myself to experience the newness. Check out [...]
Support for some multimedia formats cannot be included on the openSUSE CDs because they’re proprietary, patented, Restricted Formats. Some of these include MP3, MPEG-4, playing of Encrypted DVDs, etc. Enabling most of them on openSUSE 10.3 is as easy as 1 2 3:
Get the Restricted Format 1-click installer:
For KDE Users
For GNOME users
This will enable you [...]
KDE Community Ships Fourth Translation and Service Release of the 4.0 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates
May 7, 2008 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.4, the fourth bugfix and maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful [...]
Stephan Binner’s openSUSE KDE 4.1 Alpha1 Live has been uploaded and is there for you to try. It is the first real release of the KDE 4.1 branch after almost 45000 commits and is the result of 4 months of steady KDE development. It has rough edges, but it is a nice preview of things [...]
The state of Plasma can be currently described as ‘chaotic’. The reason for that is that its API is being refactored which in result makes it almost impossible to use for a regular human being. Most applets despite continuous development, still experience issues with adjusting to the new API. This results in instabilities and — [...]
KDE Community Ships First Alpha Release of KDE 4.1, The First End-User Release of the Next-Generation Free Desktop
April 29, 2008 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.1 Alpha1. With the soft feature freeze in effect, KDE 4.1 provides a first preview of what can be expected [...]
The default desktop themes can play a large role in the acceptance of a new desktop. KDE 3 could be tweaked into a thing of beauty, but out of the box, it seemed garish and primitive in almost every distribution I tried it in.
By contrast, KDE 4 starts with the subdued colors and clean [...]
This is the first update to GNOME 2.22. Come and see all the bug fixing, all the new translations and all the updated documentation brought to you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors! A lot of work has been done in the stable branch to make it even more solid than it was.
The next [...]
Interesting post on improvements for Kde 4:
“Thanks for trying KDE 4.0.x and then writing about it. It’s always great when people try something for a while and then give their honest opinion on things. I’d like to address some of the issues you raise, so let’s start where you started:
“A more customizable panel”: the issues [...]
The latest release of the GNOME desktop environment includes a number of significant architectural enhancements and new applications that offer increased power and usability. Released after six months of intensive development, GNOME 2.22 will be included in Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9, which are scheduled for release in April.
GNOME is an open-source desktop environment that [...]
The following presentation comes from GTK+ Hacfest held at Berlin on 10th March.
Click here to download a copy of presentation (.pdf file)
The Kickoff menu went thourght some cosmetic polishing which made it look more than neat. As of new features, in the upper-right corner of the menu we can now notice a handle allowing to resize the whole thing to fit any size we can think of (the function has been already available in KDE 3 [...]
GNOME 2.22 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME’s focus is ease of use, stability, and first-class internationalisation and accessibility support. GNOME is Free and Open Source Software and provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, such as [...]
KDE 4.1 will be what everyone expected 4.0 to be — a fully functional revolutionary Linux desktop. This is how the default KDE 4.1 desktop looks like in rev 777000:
KDE 4 Desktop - Revision 777000
Take a look at the revision 777000 of this desktop environment and what you get is a visual changelog describing [...]
Theming one’s OS to look like a Mac is all the rage these days, but for the most part such modifications are superficial. However, Global Menu actually changes the user experience quite a bit. For those who haven’t seen a Mac before, [do such people exist?] on Mac OS, the menu for applications is located [...]
Though openSUSE users have access to GUI frontend for editing GRUB in Yast, there is new visual GRUB configuration editor for KDE 4 users now available, dubbed KGRUBEditor. With it you can edit GRUB entries and alter GRUB settings and is very easy-to-use.
According to the author - “ It is a port of QGRUBEditor to [...]
The KDE Community announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.9, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. The most important changes have been made to the KDE-PIM applications, including the KMail [...]
If you haven’t noticed lately, the repositories for KDE 4.0 has changed a while ago. Click on the One Click Install files to install the required packages and optionally register the repository for future. If you get a message that dependencies cannot be resolved, enter the “Advanced Mode” of the one-click handler and enable the [...]
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