Links: Week With KDE, Bangarang, and KDE Audiocast
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-07-22 08:03:07 UTC
- Modified: 2010-07-22 08:03:07 UTC
Summary: KDE news from the past few days
Last month I mentioned that I was looking at switching my desktop environment (DE) from GNOME to KDE and I was considering a move away from Ubuntu completely. About a week ago I installed KDE on my computer and started tweaking things to see how I like it. It’s not too bad, actually. As you can see from the shot on the right I’ve been able to make my desktop a combination of eye candy and functionality. I killed the top panel but was able to keep some of the applets thanks to plasmoids.
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I decided to tweak my desktop a little more and made a few more screenies to show the changes. I moved the digital clock to the bottom of my desktop, mostly to keep it visible if I maximize an app window and can’t see the time in the original position. I also added a Timer plasmoid to replace the timer on my GNOME panel. It doesn’t work as nicely as my GNOME timer did since I can’t set up times associated with a specific task, and I haven’t figured out how to get a sound played when the timer reaches nil, but I do get a nice obvious notification so it’s not so easy to miss as long as I’m at my computer. I also moved the Shutup plasmoid to the lower right corner to make better use of my screen real estate. I added two plasmoids on the lower left to switch my wallpaper and to give me quick access to the files I used to keep on my GNOME desktop.
Day Three. I am at work, sitting at my desk waiting for a vehicle before I go out. I thought I’d take the time to comment on some things I have noticed with KDE4 so far.
Now, the default Dragon Media Player of KDE have a serious competition in Bangarang. Dragon player is simple yet totally functional, which I think are the most basic trait to became the default in any desktop environment. On the other hand Bangarang is new, it's good and it is rapidly improving.
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- Does UPRP maladministration extend to the false belief that qualified and experienced scientists can play the role of circus clowns?
- "The Liberating Power of Simply Telling People the Truth."
- 'polite' bullying
- Who Imitates Who? Plagiarist as Client (From Microsoft), 'Plagiarism' at the Law Firm?
- let's revisit the subject
- EPO's Central Staff Committee (CSC) Scrutinises the Man Who Illegally Grants (and Forces Others to Illegally Participate in Granting) Software Patents in Europe
- EPO compels examiners to break the law in the name of obeying illegal "rules" or "orders"
- The Latest Rumour Says The Next (as Correctly Predicted Before) Wave of Layoffs at Microsoft is 3 Weeks Away, "Larger Than the First Wave"
- Step 2
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- First they ask for your E-mail address; then they start nagging you via E-mail
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- Meanwhile we got compliments on our recent articles, which means that they are effective
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- We too have some slop issues; this past day this site and the sister site had to answer about 2.5 million requests (not counting Gemini Protocol) and it's slowing things down for everybody
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- letter to Lord
- The Toxic Playbook
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- This takes patience, sure, but at the end most evildoers face the consequences for their actions
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- Will those systems respect users' freedom?
- EPO: Neglecting Children to Promote American Monopolies by Shielding Them From European Competition
- Yesterday the Central Staff Committee at the EPO spoke about another "reform" at the Office
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- It looks like being a chronic liar is what it takes to lead the company once synonymous with computing
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- IBM is trying to 'kill' X
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Tuesday, June 10, 2025
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- Not throwing out the baby with the bathwater
- If 'Microsoft v Techrights' is Dealt With by a 'Microsoft Court' (or a Court Outsourced to Microsoft)
- More on that later
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 09, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, June 09, 2025
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