http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:13:38 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/21765/_QtWebKit_KPart_Is_Not_the_Answer_for_Konqueror_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21765/_QtWebKit_KPart_Is_Not_the_Answer_for_Konqueror_/ Whenever I use KDE, the part I dislike the most is the rendering engine used by Konqueror, called KHTML. KHTML just doesn't render pages as smooth and as well as Gecko and the KHTML fork WebKit, up to a point where I find Konqueror unusable as a web browser. However, work is underway to replace KHTML in Konqueror with WebKit, but according to KDE developer Adam Treat, this is a futile effort: Konqueror is too KHTML API specific. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:19:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 28 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21671/Writing_Applets_for_KDE4_s_Plasma/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21671/Writing_Applets_for_KDE4_s_Plasma/ KDE, the K Desktop Environment, is a free software project based on a desktop environment for UNIX-like systems. Learn how to build small but extremely useful applets for Plasma - the new shell for the K Desktop Environment - starting with a handy memory monitor applet. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:09:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21654/KDE_4_3_Beta_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21654/KDE_4_3_Beta_2_Released/ The second beta for KDE 4.3 has been released. The highlights of this release are the integration of many new technologies, such as PolicyKit and Geolocation services, new window animation effects, a more usable run command popup, many new and improved addons in Plasma, Many bugfixes and improvements across all applications, and more integration of features coming with the KDE 4 platform. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:15:13 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 28 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/21575/KOffice_2_0_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21575/KOffice_2_0_0_Released/ While most people focus on Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org as being each other's competitors, there's a third player in this market: KOffice. While KOffice is obviously geared towards use on KDE, it's available for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNOME-based distributions as well, making it much more platform-independent than Microsoft's Office suite. Version 2.0.0 was released today, and comes with a whole boatload of improvements. Thu, 28 May 2009 14:23:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 65 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News hotice http://www.osnews.com/story/21491/KDE_4_3_0_Beta_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21491/KDE_4_3_0_Beta_1_Released/ The KDE team has pushed out the first beta release of KDE 4.3. The highlights of this release are the integration of many new technologies, such as PolicyKit and Geolocation services, new window animation effects, a more usable run command popup, many new and improved addons in Plasma, Many bugfixes and improvements across all applications, and more integration of features coming with the KDE 4 platform. Wed, 13 May 2009 20:36:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 70 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/21454/KDE_4_2_3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21454/KDE_4_2_3_Released/ It slipped by us, but the KDE team has released another minor bugfix release of KDE 4.2, version 4.2.3, a few days ago. Being a bugfix release, there are few user-visible changes, but still, there are a few things that stand out. "Online IMAP filtering in KMail has been fixed, KMail's system tray icon now reacts to changes to folder properties and updates the number of emails shown there automatically, and bugfixes, performance improvements and optimization in KHTML - painting and interoperability with web standards has been further improved." Fri, 08 May 2009 09:41:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 36 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/21428/Social_Desktop_Starts_to_Arrive_in_KDE/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21428/Social_Desktop_Starts_to_Arrive_in_KDE/ "At last year's Akademy the vision of the Social Desktop was born and first presented to a larger audience. The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the power of online communities and group collaboration to desktop applications and the desktop shell itself. One of the strongest assets of the Free Software community is its worldwide community of contributors and users who belief in free software and who work hard to bring the software and solutions to the mainstream." Mon, 04 May 2009 16:52:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News FrankKarlitschek http://www.osnews.com/story/21244/KDE_4_2_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21244/KDE_4_2_2_Released/ We're really in a KDE/GNOME mood today, it would seem. The KDE team has released the second maintenance release for the KDE 4.2 series, KDE 4.2.2. The three biggest improvements in this release are stability fixes in KRunner, performance enhancements in KMail, and bugfixes, performance improvements and optimization in KHTML. As always, this release will find it way to your distributor of choice soon enough, but if you're impatient, you can always build it yourself. Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:18:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 48 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/21243/Retro_Linux_News_KDE_2_2_Live_CD_Available/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21243/Retro_Linux_News_KDE_2_2_Live_CD_Available/ My first thought was that this was an April Fool's joke, but as it turns out, this is real (I actually downloaded and tested it). The openSUSE KDE team has created a KDE 2.2.2 live CD using openSUSE 11.1 as a base. It boots like any other live CD, but instead of the latest and greatest KDE 3.x or 4.x desktop, you're presented with a fully functional KDE 2.2.2 desktop. That sure brought back some memories! Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:41:37 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News KugelKurt http://www.osnews.com/story/21201/KDE_Launches_Brainstorm/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21201/KDE_Launches_Brainstorm/ On Friday, KDE officially launched its version of Dell's IdeaStorm - KDE Brainstorm. In less than 24 hours, over 100 new ideas were proposed. "Getting the non-developer and developer communities really communicating is often a challenge, and KDE's approach is a great start. Developers now have an opportunity to hear what end-users want." Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:57:54 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 53 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News Michael http://www.osnews.com/story/21083/KDE_4_2_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21083/KDE_4_2_1_Released/ The KDE team has released KDE 4.2.1. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "Cream", (a.k.a KDE 4.2.1), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop." You can wait for your distribution to package it, or download it yourself. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:07:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News elsewhere http://www.osnews.com/story/20857/KDE_4_2_Released_Short_Interview_Aaron_Seigo/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20857/KDE_4_2_Released_Short_Interview_Aaron_Seigo/ The release of KDE 4.0 was not a smooth one, and left a number of users a bit disgruntled. Still, the release showed so much potential that it was oozing out of every pixel. KDE 4.1 improved significantly in many areas of concern, but it wasn't yet ready for everyone. With today's release of KDE 4.2, the KDE4 vision is ready to face not only developers and enthusiasts, but every users. We have taken a look at the release candidate for KDE 4.2, and we have a short interview with KDE's Aaron Seigo. Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:41:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 152 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/20786/KDE_4_2_RC1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20786/KDE_4_2_RC1_Released/ The KDE project has released the first release candidate for KDE 4.2. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "Cilense", (a.k.a. KDE 4.2 Release Candidate), the only planned release candidate for the KDE 4.2 desktop. Cilense is aimed at testers and reviewers. It should provide a solid ground to report last-minute bugs that need to be tackled before KDE 4.2.0 is released. Reviewers can use this release candidate to get a first look at the upcoming KDE 4.2 desktop which provides significant improvements all over the desktop and applications. It is not recommended for everyday use, however." Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:25:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20758/KDE_4_2_Progress_New_NetworkManager_Plasmoid_Coming/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20758/KDE_4_2_Progress_New_NetworkManager_Plasmoid_Coming/ When KDE 4.0 was first released, it was met with quite some criticism. Even though people saw the huge potential, the lack of functionality and stability, as well as quite a few bugs detracted from the experience. The KDE developers continued to work on implementing their relatively radical vision, and with the release of KDE 4.2 creeping ever closer, it seems they're well on their way. Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:51:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 73 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20589/KDE_4_2_Beta_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20589/KDE_4_2_Beta_1_Released/ The KDE team has released the first beta of KDE 4.2, slated for release coming January. Quite a lot of new features have been added, as well as lots of bug fixes and performance improvements. This release also makes a lot of strides to feature parity with KDE 3.x, by adding those small little features that KDE 3.x users are barely aware of, but which were missed in KDE 4.0/4.1, such as taskbar grouping, multiple rows in the taskbar, panel auto-hiding, a traditional icon desktop through 'full-screen' foderview, and so on. Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:45:50 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) KDE 72 http://www.osnews.com/topics/57 News lemur2