Archive of 'KDE'

KDE4 apps: Gwenview

[ Thursday, 23 October 2008, Tomasz Dudzik ]

Reading through comments of an article featured on the jakilinux.org site I’ve stumbled upon somebody complaining that Gwenview is underexposed. Let’s take it on then, using a SVN pullout for KDE4.

Quick Look at KDE 4.2-SVN

[ Thursday, 16 October 2008, riklaunim ]

As the work on KDE 4.2 turns out to be on quite an advanced stage, I’ve decided to test the current development version. For the purpose of this test I used the Archlinux distribution, that features the KDE 4.2-SVN packages repository. It is just enough to add appropriate entries into pacman.conf at the top of [...]

KpackageKit: future of package managers on your desktop [interview with developers]

[ Tuesday, 30 September 2008, patpi ]

PackageKit is a system designed to make installing and updating software on your computer easier. The primary design goal is to unify all the software graphical tools used in different distributions. KPackageKit is the KDE interface for PackageKit. Today we talk with Packagekit-Qt and KpackageKit developers about new emerging possibilities in process of managing software [...]

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 order [...]

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.

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.