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Well I have been mumbling for a few weeks now about this "Flo" project and so far I have gotten a ton of encouraging feedback. For those of you who don't know what Flo is, here is a gentle introduction. Read More

Another bit for the upcoming openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 desktop is power management: KPowersave has not been ported to KDE4. Powerdevil, which will be part of KDE 4.2, comes to our rescue. Together with a backport of the battery plasmoid popup from KDE 4.2 SVN as in yesterday's released openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5 we get a good power management solution. The backport only uses QWidgets so that we are not forced to backport all the latest Plasma 4.2 widgets etc.: Read More

KDE trunk now needs CMake 2.6.2. A few people have asked where it can be found for Kubuntu, fear not friends it's in intrepid-backports. You can enable backports through Adept by ticking the "Unsupported Updates" box in the sources editor.

While eagerly awaiting KDevelop4 to become stable (it crashes on me too often right now)... I'm back to forgetting vim commands ;) To get a list of files on the left (still need to get comfy with it, but it looks useful) use the Project plugin Read More

There was this blog entry about the state of packaging for the Mac. Containing "Then you think to yourself, if only those nice boys and girls in KDE-land had a native solution for installing their software," Read More

As you might have noticed, KDE 4.1.3 has been released, codename "Change" (in line with other C- codenames recently, as a kind of a joke on all those people who fail to see that still writing comments with overuse of K after 10 years of KDE's existence can only be a sign of brain damage). Not many changes in KWin there though, the changelog part for KWin has just one change worth mentioning. But that is not the case for users of the openSUSE KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop packages, which are the packages that will be also used for openSUSE 11.1. This is because they include a special KWin branch, which contains both backports of various new features from other KWin developers from SVN trunk (Lucas' blog keeps track of many of those) that cannot be backported to the 4.1 branch by KDE rules but should be stable and safe enough, and new features developed specially for the needs of openSUSE11.1/SLED11. Read More

openSUSE 11.1 will include (besides the to be expected plasmoids from kdebase4-workspace and kde4-plasma-addons) three more plasmoids to be closer to KDE 3.5 functionality: Quick Access, Quick Launcher and Keyboard Status Applet: And many more plasmoids are available from the KDE:KDE4:Community openSUSE Build Service repository thanks to the openSUSE KDE Team. :-)

KDE 4.2 is approaching its first Beta release and it has been a while so here is a new KDE Four Live release with KDE 4.1.72 snapshot SUSE packages from the KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop repository. Read More

                             

Szymon Stefanek's KMail GSoC project was merged into trunk today. Stunning. You've got to try it. KMail has been re-launched! r881321 To quote the commit message: "... New features include grouping, multiline items and the ability to customize just about everything of the look of the message list. Also, we have a tabbed interface for opening more than one folder at once now..." Read More