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I've read various stories about how people are having problems with the KDE4 compositing effects. So for a change, I thought I should describe how I'm a very happy KDE4 user, after I got KWin and Plasma effects to run pretty satisfactorily on the low end VIA7 cpu/gpu combination in my HP 2133 mini laptop. Read More

Hello everyone, from some time br.kde.org, the Brazilian KDE page was maintained in a slow pace, due the heavy duty that me, Maurício, Felipe ( the previous mantainer ) and other translations guys in role are into ( like real life ). Was basically pt_BR carbon copies of main website, nothing more. As Felipe asked for a temp departure, we are in need of new fresh blood insane people to join the hard task and bring new life to the home. So i'm proud to announce that Tomaz and Sandro, from the Live Blue project accepted take the task. So, thanks to Felipe for all the years in the translation team and taking care of the site, and welcome to the new overlords of Brazilian KDE Site. Hope they will aim to a new high quality project as our friends of KDE India are doing !!

A post on the KDE forum motivated me to write some info about what's new with Kexi 2.0. For sanity I groupped a set of quickies as an 2.0 Alpha 12 changelog. For uninformed, most applications within KOffice will meet the stable 2.0 release (already passed a promising RC1 stage), while Kexi and Kivio neds more time for development. The hope is to synchronize nicely at the 2.1 stage. Read More

People reading planet will have seen Thomas Zander's post about the new ItemViews framework the Trolls^H^H^HQt Software guys have been working on. It's very experimental right now, but I thought I'd have a quick look. I decided that a fun hack to write would be to take a standard listview that displays a list of URLs (boring!) and write a custom view that instead displays the rendered web page. I only spent a couple of hours on it, so the code is a hack (eg. you need to resize it to get the pages to display once they've loaded) but the results look ok. The whole code for this example comes in under 120 lines. Read More

In case you thought that reading about the Akonadi developer sprint on the dot gave you an all encompassing overview of stuff happening around Akonadi, you forgot our brazilian friends. Adenilson Cavalcanti, also featured in one of Danny's excellent commit digests, has been working like a mad man (or a genious, thin line and all that ;-) ) on the Akonadi resources for Google's data services. Read More

I'm just trying to compile Battle of Wesnoth (yes, for me gaming means compiling games... ;-) ). I just built it with CMake, which first complained that it didn't find Lua 5.1. I checked, it really wasn't there. So I downloaded the sources for lua, make, make install, and now lua is in /usr/local/. Then I run cmake again on Wesnoth and it happily finds Lua, so CMake now succeeds and I can build Wesnoth. Read More

There are still five days left to submit a proposal for a presentation at Akademy 2009. The deadline is on Friday, April 10th. Akademy happens as part of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit this year. See more details about what we are looking for in the call for presentations. Akademy is the prime occasion for meeting the community, and present and discuss your ideas. Lots of great initiatives were kick-started at Akademy. Don't miss out on this opportunity and submit your proposal now! Read More

There have been endless complaints about the KDE4 desktop shell missing certain functionalities like being able to have different wallpapers on each virtual desktop. The openSUSE KDE team has now listened and worked hard to bring back all desktop functionality as you know it from KDE2. A technical preview in form of a Live-CD (for i686 only) is now available. As additional bonus, Time Machine functionality was included too.

Roberto Alsina recently posted a series of tutorials about Python and PyQt on his blog. I don't think they appeared on Planet KDE, so I'm forwarding them on. ;-) It covers typical Qt GUI programming using Qt Designer. Read More

I just added some content to the new cute Qt community website.