Archive of 'KDE'

KDE 4.1: The Annoyances

[ Tuesday, 24 June 2008, Bastion ]
Only one month is left before KDE 4.1 is announced. That’s why I thought it’s a good occasion to perform yet another visual changelog (rev 823000). Today’s article will be a bit different than the previous ones since I’m going to focus on the biggest annoyances of KDE 4.1 from my personal perspective In […]

KDE 4 Progress: New plasmoids, Akonadi, KRunner and more

[ Monday, 2 June 2008, Bastion ]
In spite of fragmentary information about changes, that I’ve published since my last insight (like the Amarok 2 visual changelog), I’ve decided after all to gather them all in one place. Hence, I invite you to the next insight of KDE 4. The revision of the day is 811150. » Post Purchase:  Text Link

Amarok 2: Visual Changelog

[ Saturday, 24 May 2008, Bastion ]
Amarok multimedia player is one of the best programs of its kind not only for Linux but for any operating system nowadays. It has been created as a KDE component. Most people hoped to have Amarok 2.0 included in KDE 4.0, which hasn’t happened. It’s hard to predict if it finds its way into KDE […]

KDE 4 rev 802150: Work in progress

[ Tuesday, 29 April 2008, Bastion ]
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 — […]

Komparator — a comparing tool for KDE

[ Monday, 7 April 2008, michalrz ]
Komparator is an application, that can compare and synchronize the content of two (local or remote) folders. Contrary to popular belief this activity is popular among users of all platforms, but in Linux you have to use unfriendly console apps (such as diff) to do the job. » Post Purchase:  Text Link

KDE 4 rev 790000: Better stability and performance

[ Saturday, 29 March 2008, Bastion ]
This is another revision of the development version of KDE 4 environment. Lots of you have asked why it took me so long to publish this article. Well, I was just waiting for rev 790000, that’s all. I hope that your curiosity will be satisfied since there’s been a lot of changes to describe this […]

KDE 4.1: Visual Changelog (rev 783000)

[ Friday, 7 March 2008, Bastion ]
You don’t always see this in the official changelogs but the KDE 4 development is progressing in an extraordinary speed. After a deep look at rev 777000 we are presenting you a new visual review of changes made to KDE 4 during the last couple of weeks.

KDE 4 Tour: digiKam 0.10

[ Tuesday, 26 February 2008, Bastion ]
digiKam 0.10 is not only a port of the application to KDE 4. It also brings a few new features, including ‘Timeline’ applet. PolishLinux.org has a screenshot tour.