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KDE 4.8 Released With New Features, Improvements
A new set of KDE releases has been announced by the KDE development team.
KDE 4.8 provides ‘major updates to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform’.
New Tool Gives Greater Control Over GTK Theming in KDE
Running GTK+ applications on the KDE desktop isn’t as brutish-looking as it once was thanks to the creation of an oxygen-gtk theme.
But as oxygen-gtk isn’t capable of playing all that nice with GTK3 applications the following tool was created to offer up greater control over GTK apps running in KDE.
[How To] Add a “Places” Menu in KDE
KDE. Some think of it as the desktop environment that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. What I like most about KDE is that there is Plasmoid (a form of widget for KDE) for almost everything – Facebook, clocks, weather, tweeting, start menus, Dash, calculator, system monitors etc… you name it. One plasmoid I find really [...]
Qupzilla – the Best Browser You’ve Never Heard of?
With the browser market dominated by Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer you could be forgiven for thinking that small browsers have little to offer. But Qupzilla, a multi-platform Qt-based web-browser, is worth taking for a spin. It boasts features comparable to Chrome and Firefox, yet uses less resources than either. The webkit wonder, developed by Czech Linux user [...]
Making Dolphin Even Better: Add ‘Service Menus’
Among the things that I love most in KDE is it’s file manager – Dolphin.
Dolphin is fast, looks great and is future-rich. Recently I’ve thought “How can Dolphin possibly get any better?” and today I stumbled upon a very neat and useful tweak for Dolphin that makes it almost perfect – service menus.
KDE Twitter App Choqok Updates with New Look
Chirp, chirp: The very capable KDE twitter application Choqok is available for download.
Sporting a redesigned interface and a nest full of minor fixes, it’s worth upgrading.
KDE Graphics App Krita Releases First 2.4 Beta
The first beta release from sketching and painting app Krita’s 2.4 series has been made available for Download.
‘Takeoff’ Adds OS X Lion-Style App Launcher to KDE
OS X Lion Launchpad inspired Plasmoid ‘Takeoff’ brings a full screen menu launcher to Kubuntu users.
Facebook Bans KDE Apps, Deletes Pics Uploaded Using Them [Update]
Update: Facebook has since restored access for the KDE applications and plugins, as well as re-adding the missing photos. Apparently the removal was a mistake caused by one of Facebook’s automated systems.
Facebook has banned KDE applications from uploading pictures to user profiles, deleting pictures that have already been uploaded using KDE apps in the process.
Linux Video editor KdenLive updates with rotoscoping, stop motion, light graffiti effects and more
With so many great new features present, Kdenlive 0.8 usurps the mantle as the most featured yet user-friendly video editor available for Linux.
Sentinella: automatically launch actions based on system activity
Sentinella might sound like name of a posh fragrance but the small app has been designed to keep your OS feeling fresh rather than yourself smelling such.
It does this by monitoring your system resources for a pre-set ‘condition’, and then launching a specified action when this condition is met.
KDE Twitter app Choqok 1.1 released; how to download
An update to Qt Twitter client ‘Choqok’ is now available for download.
Now on version 1.1, the release contains a new translator plugin; a timeline filter to make reading tweets in your stream from a specific person or topic easier and a new option to hide the menu bar.
Tomahawk media player offers multi-source library and genius playlists
Tomahawk is a new QT media player with a difference: it wants to playback anything you ask for – even if you don’t have it on your hard-drive.