http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:25:29 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25549/KDE_SC_4_8_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25549/KDE_SC_4_8_Released/ KDE has announced its latest set of releases, providing major updates to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, and improved stability, performance and dynamic power management. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:42:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) KDE 93 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/25433/Plasma_Active_Two_Boosts_Performance_New_Features/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25433/Plasma_Active_Two_Boosts_Performance_New_Features/ "Mobile devices that adapt to who you are, reflecting what you are doing when you are doing it. This concept is at the heart of the Plasma Active user experience. Plasma Active One was released in October 2011, providing early adopters the first opportunity to experience Activities on a tablet. Since then, the design and development team behind this open source touch interface has been hard at work on an update. The fruits of their labor were released today, December 14, 2011 as Plasma Active Two." Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:44:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/25307/Nokia_N950_Running_Plasma_Active_on_Mer/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25307/Nokia_N950_Running_Plasma_Active_on_Mer/ MeeGo community member Vgrade. who is involved with the Mer Core project, describes his experiences with adapting Plasma Active for ARM architecture and running in on top of Mer. Even though Plasma Active One is targeted for tablets, it runs as a usable UX on a Nokia N950 handset. Mer itself is an open, inclusive, meritocratically governed and openly developed Linux core, providing a mobile-optimised base distribution for use by device manufacturers. The Plasma Active team plans to focus on a handset UI in Plasma Active Three, which is scheduled for summer 2012. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:41:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) KDE 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News shmerl http://www.osnews.com/story/25283/KDE_3_5_Fork_Trinity_Releases_Third_Major_Update/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25283/KDE_3_5_Fork_Trinity_Releases_Third_Major_Update/ Disappointed with KDE 4's performance and other shortcomings, Timothy Pearson continued KDE 3.5 development under the name Trinity. Today the first third major update of the Trinity Desktop Environment is released, providing an alternative upgrade path for KDE users who do not feel comfortable with KDE 4. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:31:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 135 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News Z_God http://www.osnews.com/story/25226/KDE_Active_One_for_Tablets/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25226/KDE_Active_One_for_Tablets/ KDE has announced the release of Plasma Active One, which is a KDE 4.x style interface and API designed for touch devices. The Plasma Active Team states that "Plasma Active is innovative technology for an intelligent user experience. It is intended for all types of tablets, smartphones and touch computing devices such as set-top boxes, smart TVs, home automation, in-vehicle infotainment". Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:30:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) KDE 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/25127/Plasma_Active_Entering_Beta/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25127/Plasma_Active_Entering_Beta/ "At the beginning of this year, the Plasma team was itching to extend Plasma's coverage of the device spectrum. We already had Desktop and Netbook interfaces, and while maintaining and incrementally improving those, we wanted to show case the possibilities of Plasma by creating a full fledged touch interface for devices." Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:58:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) KDE 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News Elv13 http://www.osnews.com/story/25103/Aaron_Seigo_Talks_About_the_KDE_SC_5_0_More/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25103/Aaron_Seigo_Talks_About_the_KDE_SC_5_0_More/ "After years of focusing on further improving KDE4 two weeks ago the developers of the free desktop announced the next big step for their project: KDE Frameworks 5.0. But as long-time developer - and Plasma team leader - Aaron Seigo points out in an interview with derStandard.at/web, the source-incompatible changes shall be held to a minimum. Also calls Frameworks 5.0 only the "first step", new Applications and Workspace releases are to follow later, Seigo goes on to talk about the chances in the mobile market with Plasma Active and further areas of collaboration with the other big free desktop: GNOME." Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:19:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) KDE 56 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News suka http://www.osnews.com/story/25044/KDE_Working_on_Wayland_KDE_Frameworks_5_0/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25044/KDE_Working_on_Wayland_KDE_Frameworks_5_0/ KDE is working on some interesting stuff. Wayland support for one, but they're also going to work on the frameworks for... KDE 5.0. Yes, I'd say KDE 4 still is far, far from done, but 5.0 is already on the horizon. This time around though, they're not going to pull a KDE 4.0, since this is mostly going to be about lower-level changes. Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:09:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 48 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24994/KDE_4_7_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24994/KDE_4_7_Released/ "KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform that provides the foundation for KDE software. Version 4.7 of these releases provide many new features and improved stability and performance." Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:50:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 39 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News sb56637 http://www.osnews.com/story/24891/Facebook_Bans_KDE_Application_Deletes_User_Photos/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24891/Facebook_Bans_KDE_Application_Deletes_User_Photos/ Looks as though Facebook has banned the use of kipi-plugins as a way to export photos to the social networking site using KDE applications like digiKam and Gwenview. Adding insult to injury, photos that were previously uploaded using this software have been deleted without warning. Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:01:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) KDE 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News QuadSix50 http://www.osnews.com/story/24888/KDE_4_7_RC_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24888/KDE_4_7_RC_Released/ "KDE has released a release candidate of the upcoming 4.7 release of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks, which is planned for July 27, 2011. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing last-minute showstopper bugs and finishing translation and documentation that comes along with the releases." Focuses of this release are Kwin support for OpenGL-ES 2.0 (oooh purty!), an interface refresh for Dolphin, and loads of other stuff. Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:01:24 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News Debjit http://www.osnews.com/story/24793/KDE_Ships_First_4_7_Beta/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24793/KDE_Ships_First_4_7_Beta/ "KDE has released a first beta of the upcoming 4.7 release of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks, which is planned for July 27, 2011. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality." Thu, 26 May 2011 21:27:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 53 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/24634/New_KDE_Project_Aims_at_Tablets_Mixed_UIs/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24634/New_KDE_Project_Aims_at_Tablets_Mixed_UIs/ New open source projects have been launched by KDE developers aimed at bringing a consistent user interface across a varied of touch screen interfaces like tablets and entertainment devices and take data integration to a new level. The new Plasma Active and Contour projects were developed to offer a new user experience for tablets, smartphones and set top boxes. Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:13:13 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 29 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24333/KDE_4_6_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24333/KDE_4_6_0_Released/ Before we get underway: I'm sorry, we don't have enough headline space to write 'KDE Releases Development Platform, Applications and Plasma Workspaces 4.6.0'. Then again, do any non-anal people every refer to it that way? No? I thought so. In any case, there's a new KDE version out with lots of new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements. Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 91 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News zegenie http://www.osnews.com/story/24248/BehindKDE_Patrick_Spendrin_KDE_on_Windows/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24248/BehindKDE_Patrick_Spendrin_KDE_on_Windows/ "Last week KDE 4.5.4 was released for Windows. It was a late Christmas present from the KDE on Windows team and we were immediately interested in learning more about the project. In the first interview of the 'Platforms' series, Pau Garcia i Quiles talks with Patrick Spendrin, the current release manager of KDE on Windows and asks, well, everything." Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:37:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News pgquiles