Archive April, 2009

GConf - GNOME Desktop on steroids

[ Thursday, 30 April 2009, GrzegorzJZD ]

What is GConf ?
GConf is a system of storing preferences of most of the installed applications, as well as the environment and desktop for GNOME for Linux.
GConf made its way into GNOME 2.0 first, but it also can be used in pure GTK+, XLib, KDE or pure text mode. The tool so far isn’t very [...]

Lancelot and Raptor menu - the other way.

[ Friday, 17 April 2009, Bastion ]

Lancelot and Raptor are alternative menus intended for KDE 4. We are, however, at the frosty point, and we should ask ourselves the most important question here - which one to choose, and are they sufficiently mature and functional at all to compete with the default menu? Let’s look at them closely then to know [...]

Preview of Kubuntu 9.04

[ Friday, 10 April 2009, tzglobic ]

It is that time of the year again, along with the beginning of the spring, yet another release of Ubuntu 9.04 codenamed Jaunty Jackalope is coming shortly to a server near you. As the beta version was released couple of weeks ago, I decided to have a quick look and see what can be [...]

KDE 4.3 - early preview

[ Thursday, 9 April 2009, Bastion ]

Finally the day has come, when the curiosity about the KDE4.3 development branch took the better of me. Unfortunately the gap between what I was blogging on caused some confusion on what is really new out there. So the review will be a little unusual, more like a shooting in the dark ‘oh this looks [...]