Thu, 02/02/2012 - 22:09 | 
ubuntuvibes.com
Aaron J. Seigo answered some questions in a recent blog post revealing more details on Mer/KDE Plasma Active Tablet Spark.
Tags: Tue, 31/01/2012 - 21:07 | techdrivein.com
If the near domination of Linux at CES 2012 wasn't good enough news for you, this little tablet from KDE is definitely going to make you happy. Out of the blue, lead KDE hacker Aaron Seigo announced to the world the imminent launch of Spark tablet running KDE's brand new Plasma Active desktop environment. Its name is "Spark", in recognition of it being the start to an even bigger flame, adds Aaron Seigo in his blog post.
Sat, 28/01/2012 - 08:01 | ubuntuvibes.com
Aaron J. Seigo, from KDE Plasma Active development team has revealed a tablet which could be the first device to come with Plasma Active pre-installed.
If you don't know about Plasma Active project yet:
Plasma Active is a joint project by the KDE community, basysKom and open-slx. The goals for this open source project are to deliver a fast embedded UX platform with minimal memory requirements, provide customizable and modular to support different form factors and design an interface that adapts as users change Activities.
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:
Mon, 09/01/2012 - 18:44 | webupd8.org
GRUB2 Editor for KDE is a KDE Control Module that lets you configure the GRUB2 bootloader: manage the default boot entry, boot timeout, resolution, menu colors and theme, Linux Kernel arguments, recover GRUB2, remove old entries, create and preview GRUB2 splash images and more.
GRUB2 Editor 0.5.5 has been released today, and it includes two new features:
- experimental BURG support. For now, it only supports commands shared with GRUB2
- option to disable Plymouth (see under Advanced > Linux Kernel Arguments drop-down)
The new version also includes various bug fixes, including proper GRUB detection for Fedora and openSUSE, fix encoding issues by supporting UTF-8 and more.
Fri, 06/01/2012 - 15:20 | ubuntuvibes.com
Anton Kreuzkamp, a 15 year old KDE developer has come up with a fantastic new way of managing space on virtual desktops.
This experimental method, called 'The Workspace Strap' can combine free space of multiple desktops to manage windows more efficiently.
Using a Kwin effect, the workspace strap method allows us to organize windows on a linear strap, either horizontally or vertically, that supports stepless scrolling. When Alt+Meta (configurable) is pressed, we get a preview of the strap and can easily scroll by dragging.
Thu, 05/01/2012 - 23:26 | webupd8.org
After Ubuntu and GNOME, KDE will get its own font too: Oxygen.
Oxygen font family is already available for testing (currently in alpha!) and comes with regular, bold and monospace variants, however, only the basic character shapes are done for now and the font is currently using the basic 'auto spacing' from FontForge.
Sat, 24/12/2011 - 01:58 | webupd8.org
Amarok 2.5 has been recently released and is now available in the Kubuntu Backports PPA for Kubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot users.
Amarok 2.5 comes with a many improvements like re-written USB Mass Storage support, GPodder.net podcast synchronization, many iPod plugin fixes as well as an integrated Amazon MP3 store.
- Auto-save the playlist so that it is not lost if Amarok crashes
- Last.fm neighbour / friend avatars are now loaded on demand
- Ability to disable or enable browser widget backgrounds
- Tracks can now be dropped in Saved Playlists' empty area to create a new playlist
- Ability to make TagGuesser presets
- Total rewrite of Automated Playlist Generator algorithm
- Improved the playlist synchronisation feature
- iPhone 3G (and perhaps later models) should be correctly recognized by Amarok now
- Fixed various crashes for Wikipedia applet, MusicBrainz search, Qt 4.8
Mon, 19/12/2011 - 17:58 | webupd8.org
Razor Qt is a new lightweight desktop environment - think of it as an early LXDE, but using Qt. It doesn't come with a display manager or window manager and its developers recommend using it with Openbox, but it should work with any WM, like Kwin, Metacity, etc.
The latest version - 0.4 -, brings some important improvements such as (very) basic configuration tools, razor-runner program (a tool for launching applications), a menu as well as some panel plugins such as removable media (for mounting and unmounting removable media), a screensaver/lock screen plugin and a show desktop plugin.
Thu, 15/12/2011 - 13:57 | webupd8.org
LightDM will probably replace KDM in Kubuntu 12.04 and David Edmundson has started working on Qt bindings and a KDE front end for LightDM. The greeter (theme) allows the use of Plasma widgets, can be configured independently and is still very fast, says David.
This is work in progress, but if you're using Kubuntu 11.10, you can already try the KDE LightDM greeter by using the ppa:agateau/lightdm-kde PPA in Kubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. In David's screenshot (in the beginning of the post), you can see two themes as well as a LightDM configuration dialog available in the KDE System Settings - for now the System Settings integration and the second theme aren't available in the PPA, but if you want to give them a try, get the latest code via GIT.
