http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 08:30:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19629/KDE_4:_Key_Improvements_User_Tips/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19629/KDE_4:_Key_Improvements_User_Tips/ "After three weeks of using KDE 4 on my laptop, I continue to find new features and changes. I am aware of the dictionary of special names that make up the back end of the new KDE - Oxygen, Plasma, Phonon, and the rest - but just as often as the major features, it's the little items that I find welcome as much as the large ones. Increasingly, I'm looking at KDE 4 as a statement about what a desktop should be, and contrasting it with my own ideas on the subject." Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:09:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News irbis http://www.osnews.com/story/19567/KDE_4.0.3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19567/KDE_4.0.3_Released/ KDE 4.0.3 has been released. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.3, the third bugfix and maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.0.3 comes with an impressive amount of bugfixes and improvements. Most of them are recorded in the changelog. KDE continues to release updates for the 4.0 desktop on a monthly basis. KDE 4.1, which will bring large improvements to the KDE desktop and application will be released in July this year." Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:53:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 50 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News Matthias http://www.osnews.com/story/19547/KDE_4_rev._790000:_Better_Stability_Performance/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19547/KDE_4_rev._790000:_Better_Stability_Performance/ "Considering that the previous revisions were surprisingly unstable, I can honestly call this one the most stable of the ones I have tested until now. I experienced only one crash and the performance was more than satisfactory. Now I can be almost sure that when a stable edition of KDE 4.1 is published, I will definitely say good bay to my old good KDE 3.5." Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:34:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 37 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News michuk http://www.osnews.com/story/19451/Plasma_Improvements:_KDE_4.0.2_and_Beyond/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19451/Plasma_Improvements:_KDE_4.0.2_and_Beyond/ Ars takes a look at KDE 4.0.2. "When KDE 4.0 was officially released in January, there were a lot of gaping holes in basic functionality. During the past few months, the codebase has matured considerably, and the environment is steadily approaching the point where it will be sufficiently robust for widespread day-to-day use. Although there are still many features missing, version 4.0.2 - which was released last week - offers an improved user experience. We tested KDE 4.0.2 with the recently released Kubuntu 8.04 alpha 6." In addition, there is a new 'visual changelog' for KDE 4.1. Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:52:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News irbis http://www.osnews.com/story/19380/KDE_4.1:_Visual_Changelog/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19380/KDE_4.1:_Visual_Changelog/ "KDE 4.1 will be what everyone expected 4.0 to be - a fully functional revolutionary Linux desktop. I took a look at the revision 777000 of this desktop environment and what you get is a visual changelog describing the current progress in terms of look and feel and the features." It has Bejeweled KDiamond? I'm sold. Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:03:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 54 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News michuk http://www.osnews.com/story/19362/KDE_3.5.9_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19362/KDE_3.5.9_Released/ KDE 3.5.9 has been released. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.9, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. The most important changes have been made to the KDE-PIM applications, including the KMail email client, KOrganizer, a planning application and other components." Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:08:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News Philipp Esselbach http://www.osnews.com/story/19324/Interview:_Celeste_Lyn_Paul/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19324/Interview:_Celeste_Lyn_Paul/ "Free/Open Source software has grown considerably from its roots in the UNIX tradition of the command line interface and early X Windows-based graphical environments. As desktop use has increased concurrently with advances in desktop development, serious user interface and experience issues have arisen. Celeste Lyn Paul of User Centered Design, Inc. and the KDE Project presented, 'A Quick and Dirty Intro to User Centered Design in Open Source Development', Saturday at SCaLE 6X. Her talk emphasized the importance of including designers in the development process." Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:41:42 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19277/KDE_4.0.1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19277/KDE_4.0.1_Released/ KDE 4.0.1 has been released. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.1. KDE 4.0.1 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and enhanced support for existing and new translations." Here's the changelog. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:50:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19263/Can_KDE_Save_a_Dying_Windows_Platform_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19263/Can_KDE_Save_a_Dying_Windows_Platform_/ This article details the story of a KDE-loving software engineer who was forced to use Windows for his job. "His only hope was that he knew Qt was cross compatible with Windows Linux and Mac, and there was talk that someday, KDE was to be ported to Windows. So he waited. Well, KDE4 was announced and there was much joy. Betas were released and there was much bitching. KDE4.0.0 was released and there again was much joy (and still a little bitching). More importantly an actual honest to goodness Windows port is released. Here follows that engineer's report." Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 75 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News Moochman http://www.osnews.com/story/19259/Interview:_KDEs_Sebastian_Kuegler/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19259/Interview:_KDEs_Sebastian_Kuegler/ Another interview with a KDE developer - this time Sebastian Kuegler takes the stage. "So sure, 4.0.0 is not as polished as anyone (especially ourselves) would have wanted it to be. It certainly is a usable desktop, if not up to all the goodness of 3.5.8 (which is what people seem to be used to, which shows that we do deliver quality work). We knew from the beginning that the development cycle leading up to a stable KDE 4 release would be painful. The fact that the definition of stable varies widely within our userbase and the expectations of everyone doesn't make it any easier." Additionally, the much-criticised KDE 4 panel can now be, among other things, resized. Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:02:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19253/KDEs_Seigo_Talks_Life_Free_Software_and_Reinventing_the_Desktop/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19253/KDEs_Seigo_Talks_Life_Free_Software_and_Reinventing_the_Desktop/ "With the recent release of version 4.0, the KDE open source project has garnered a lot of international attention. One of KDE's lead developers, and best known personality, Aaron J. Seigo is in Australia to speak at this year's Linux.conf.au on his vision for better desktop computing. Computerworld spoke with Seigo, a native of Calgary, Canada, about his view of the world and how a little bit of innovation will permanently change how people interact with software." Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:45:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News Ward D http://www.osnews.com/story/19223/Kommando:_a_Floating_Panel_for_KDE/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19223/Kommando:_a_Floating_Panel_for_KDE/ "Inspired by the command wheel in the Neverwinter Nights online game, Kommando is a floating command panel for KDE. Although Kommando's development is almost as slow as an official Debian release, and is only at version 0.5.2, it is already a configurable and convenient addition to the array of panels available in KDE." Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:17:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19206/KDE_Goes_Cross-Platform_Supports_Windows_and_OS_X/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19206/KDE_Goes_Cross-Platform_Supports_Windows_and_OS_X/ The KDE desktop environment is going cross-platform with support for the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. In addition to porting the core KDE libraries and applications, developers are also porting popular KDE-based software like the Amarok audio player and the KOffice productivity suite. Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:08:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) KDE 66 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19192/Review:_KDE_4.0.0/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19192/Review:_KDE_4.0.0/ Ars reviews KDE 4.0.0: "KDE 4.0 was officially released last week after extensive development. The long-awaited 4.0 release ushers in a new era for the popular open-source desktop environment and adds many intriguing new features and technologies. Unfortunately, the release comes with almost as many new bugs as it does features, and there is much work to be done before it sparkles like the 3.5.x series." They were also at the KDE 4.0 release event. Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:22:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 104 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19190/KDE_4.0_Release_Event_Presentations/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19190/KDE_4.0_Release_Event_Presentations/ At Google's offices in Mountain View, California, KDE 4.0's release event has ended. Various KDE people have given presentations, and a set of them has been posted online. Among them is Aaron Seigo's keynote presentation, which is very interesting to watch, and gives you a very good idea of what the KDE project is trying to achieve with KDE 4 (I just finished watching). Other presentations have also been put online. Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:11:13 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 37 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News