Shawn Powers (The Associate Editor for Linux Journal) has made this short video showing how simple it is to start sessions using different desktop managers on a single Linux installation.
Showing posts with label kde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kde. Show all posts
Feb 15, 2009
Air and KDE 4.3.
Nuno Pinheiro has recently written a blogpost about Air and KDE 4.3. He writes:
This is an example of how simple one can make a desktop in the 4.3 Plasma once we all manage to get all of our plans working. The new systray speck will help, the work being done on the task bar will allow you for different ways to sort your running/ruanbe apps, etc etc...
KDE will very shortly become the desktop you need and not the desktop we think you need. And I find that very very exciting.
A visual guide is available that shows off some of the recent improvements in KDE 4.
Soruce: http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/
...The first thing we started working on was a Plasma theme. Plasma, with it's immense plasticity and a fantastic coder team, allows us to try to push for new ideas.
Another extremely cool thing about Plasma is it's ability to become anything you want it to be. So a user in KDE 4.3 might have a desktop that looks like this, if that is his wish, without having to use external software:
This is an example of how simple one can make a desktop in the 4.3 Plasma once we all manage to get all of our plans working. The new systray speck will help, the work being done on the task bar will allow you for different ways to sort your running/ruanbe apps, etc etc...
KDE will very shortly become the desktop you need and not the desktop we think you need. And I find that very very exciting.
A visual guide is available that shows off some of the recent improvements in KDE 4.
Soruce: http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/
Jan 27, 2009
KDE 4.2 Visual Guide
For KDE 4.2 there is now a visual guide that shows off some of the improvements for this KDE 4 update. KDE 4.2 brings new desktop applets, the KWin window manager brings motion physics and other effects for its Linux desktop bling, the PowerDevil power manager has been introduced, and various KDE desktop applications have received their own arsenal of improvements.
Visit the site here...
Source: http://www.phoronix.com/
Jan 14, 2009
New refreshed look for KDE NetworkManager interface
In most modern Linux distributions, network configuration is handled by NetworkManager, a desktop-neutral service that seamlessly manages connections. It leverages D-Bus and HAL to provide a standardized programming interface through which higher-level applications can interact with network configuration and expose networking functionality to the end user. NetworkManager has largely eliminated the need for managing network configuration through text files or the command line in all but a few corner cases.
KDE and GNOME both have their own custom graphical frontend components for NetworkManager that make it easy for users to connect to wireless networks and perform other network-related configuration tasks. KDE uses the KNetworkManager component, which was in dire need of a refresh for KDE 4.
KDE contributor Sebastian Kügler is working on a new Plasma-based front-end that takes advantage of the NetworkManager support in Solid, KDE's hardware abstraction layer. The latest prototype, which is available from KDE's version control system, has a lot of potential.
In a blog entry about the new plasmoid, Kügler discusses the various usability lessons that he learned from testing WiFi configuration tools on other platforms, including Maemo, an iPod Touch, Windows, and the GNOME NetworkManager panel applet. He attempted to draw on the best elements of those while avoiding their mistakes.
"So one of my personal goals is to not make all those mistakes in the interface for networkmanager in KDE4. We're not there yet, but progressing OK," he wrote. "It is in no way near release quality yet, more like an early Alpha. We're trying to have a first working version out within the next couple of months, hopefully in time for the distros that ship in spring."
It won't be included in KDE 4.2, he says, but he hopes that it will be ready for KDE 4.3.
Source: Ryan Paul
KDE and GNOME both have their own custom graphical frontend components for NetworkManager that make it easy for users to connect to wireless networks and perform other network-related configuration tasks. KDE uses the KNetworkManager component, which was in dire need of a refresh for KDE 4.
KDE contributor Sebastian Kügler is working on a new Plasma-based front-end that takes advantage of the NetworkManager support in Solid, KDE's hardware abstraction layer. The latest prototype, which is available from KDE's version control system, has a lot of potential.
In a blog entry about the new plasmoid, Kügler discusses the various usability lessons that he learned from testing WiFi configuration tools on other platforms, including Maemo, an iPod Touch, Windows, and the GNOME NetworkManager panel applet. He attempted to draw on the best elements of those while avoiding their mistakes.
"So one of my personal goals is to not make all those mistakes in the interface for networkmanager in KDE4. We're not there yet, but progressing OK," he wrote. "It is in no way near release quality yet, more like an early Alpha. We're trying to have a first working version out within the next couple of months, hopefully in time for the distros that ship in spring."
It won't be included in KDE 4.2, he says, but he hopes that it will be ready for KDE 4.3.
Source: Ryan Paul
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