Tue, 17/04/2012 - 07:34 | 
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Hibernate option is disabled by default in Ubuntu 12.04. Hibernate doesn't work in many cases with Ubuntu, so this decision was taken to avoid data loss/corruption that can happen when a user tries to hibernate his system.
So if you are quite used to hibernate feature, you will have to rely on a workaround by manually editing some system files. There is no GUI option to enable/disable hibernate in Precise.
Tue, 10/04/2012 - 19:12 | webupd8.org
A while back, Canonical announced that it will no longer fund Kubuntu, the KDE Ubuntu flavor, thus making it a community-only Ubuntu flavor. But there is some good news for Kubuntu users: Blue Systems will start sponsoring Kubuntu starting with version 12.10 for which the development cycle starts in May.
Our sponsor since it started has been Canonical who are now moving to focus on their Unity flavour. We would like to thank Canonical for this kind support and wish the best success for the Unity flavour (also called Ubuntu).
According to H-Online, Jonathan Riddell, the main Kubuntu developer, has confirmed that he will now continue with Blue Systems as his full-time job, so he'll be leaving Canonical after the next Ubuntu Developer Summit.
Fri, 16/03/2012 - 07:58 | ubuntuvibes.com
Kubuntu Active is based on new KDE Plasma Active Tablet interface that also comes with recently launched Spark/Vivaldi tablets.
Kubuntu Active is first Ubuntu based tablet distribution. Daily build iso images are based on 12.04 LTS and only i386 images are available as of now. However, ARMv7 builds will be provided soon.
Wed, 14/03/2012 - 06:59 | ubuntuvibes.com
Luca Tringali did a fun experiment in Trieste, Italy where he presented Kubuntu to 14 people saying that it is the new Windows 8.
Most of the people believed what he said and actually loved the desktop. After a while, these people were told that its Kubuntu, a Linux OS which is completely free and comes with free software. These users gave an average rating of 8/10 to Kubuntu and said its much easier to use than Windows.
Check out the video. Though its in Italian there are English subs as well.
Wed, 15/02/2012 - 11:56 | webupd8.org
A quick update for those of you who use KDE: Chakra Archimedes has been released with a beautiful new plasma theme called Ronak - if you use some other KDE-based Linux distribution, you can download Ronak via KDE-Look.
To install it, extract the downloaded archive under ~/.kde/share/apps/desktopthemes.
In my test, under Kubuntu 11.10 using KDE 4.8, the Chakra menu branding looks broken for some reason. If this occurs for you too, you can fix it by going to the Ronak widgets folder and renaming "branding.svgz" to "branding.svgz.old" (or replace it with some other image).
Tue, 07/02/2012 - 11:35 | webupd8.org
Jonathan Riddell has announced that Canonical will no longer fund his work after Kubuntu 12.04, and Kubuntu will be treated just like Edubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu. This means Kubuntu will be developed exclusively by volunteers.
The reason behind the decision is that Kubuntu "has not been a business success":
This is a rational business decision, Kubuntu has not been a business success after 7 years of trying, and it is unrealistic to expect it to continue to have financial resources put into it.
But it was very hard for Kubuntu to succeed, considering it was already treated as a second class citizen: there were no download links on the ubuntu.com website and no option to log in to Kubuntu in the official Ubuntu flavor, so this isn't exactly a surprise.
Jonathan will continue to work for Canonical, but he will be reassigned to other tasks such as Qt, which is now installed by default in Ubuntu and used by Unity 2D.
Wed, 25/01/2012 - 20:32 | webupd8.org
KDE 4.8 has been released today and includes many changes, such as: multiple improvements for Dolphin, Kate, Kmail and Gwenview, adaptive power management, multiple layouts available for the ALT + TAB window switcher, Kwin optimizations and more.
KDE 4.8 also incorporates the cool Icon Tasks Plasmoid (we wrote about it a while back) in the. Using this plasmoid, you get an icons-only taskbar with support for the Unity API (quicklists, progress bars and badges), Dockmanager support and so on:
Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:54 | ubuntuvibes.com
A quick update - Plasma Notify add-on is now available for Firefox 4 and 5. With Plasma Notification addon, all your Firefox notifications use native notification system in KDE as shown in the screenshot above.
The add-on will be available on Firefox addon page in couple of days. In meantime, you can download the addon from here and then just drag 'n' drop it on Firefox window.
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Tags: addons, Applications, extensions, firefox, firefox 4, firefox 5, kde, kubuntu, Web Browsers
Mon, 27/06/2011 - 18:30 | ubuntuvibes.com
Awoken icon set has been ported to KDE thanks to great work done by alecive who created the original icon set as well. The icon pack is called kAwoKen and will have all the same features including a customization script.
- 100^3 colors
- 115 distributor logos
- 48 folder types
- 4 trash types
- 5 computer icons
- 5 home icons
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