An early alpha release of the new KDE font family is available for testing. 'Oxygen', designed by prolific font-maker Vernon Adams, aims to provide a 'clear, legible, sans serif, [that's] rendered with [The Freetype Font Engine] on Linux-based devices.' The alpha release contains three weights - regular, bold and monospace. But only support for 'basic characters' is currently provided.
It seems that no Linux desktop worth its salt is complete without its own font. GNOME 3 has Canteral, Unity has 'Ubuntu', and now KDE is getting in on the typographic trend. Meet 'Oxygen'.
A new release of Plasma Active - the touch-orientated interface for KDE - has been released. Plasma Active Two comes with many new features enhancements over those found in last october's 'Plasma Active One' release.
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 users are being asked to design the default wallpaper for the next major release of the popular desktop environment. Want to take part? Click on in for the details...
Unity is the most used Desktop Environment amongst Ubuntu 11.10 users according to our most recent poll. Just shy of 16,000 votes were cast (one vote per person) in the poll which asked readers "Which Desktop Environment Are You Using in Ubuntu 11.10?"
Roll up, roll up: it’s poll time! This week’s poll question comes by courtesy of reader ‘Andy’, who’s interested to know how many Ubuntu 11.10 users are using Unity and how many are using GNOME […]
OS X Lion Launchpad inspired Plasmoid 'Takeoff' brings a full screen menu launcher to Kubuntu users.
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.
The first beta of KDE software-compilation 4.7 has been released.
Bring the rich world of Plasma widgets into Ubuntu 11.04.
Ubuntu users dipping their toes into the glossy pool of Kubuntu can often be left bamboozled by the look and behaviour of the KDE desktop.