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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- this "AI" gaslighting is done because publishers get paid to do so
- GNU/Linux at 4% "Market Share" (Even According to Steam Survey)
- Another milestone
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- Now It's a Mainstream Media (MSM) Story: Microsoft Layoffs Coming, They'll be Vast (and They Blame "AI", As Usual!)
- the books were cooked (accounting fraud) to hide what really went on
- Stick to the Science, the Facts, the Observable Reality
- Science is at the heart of this site
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- Get ready
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- "IBM CEO Aravind Krishna on what’s really driving tech layoffs"
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- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- Maybe the slopfarms too can help him cover up
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- Africa will, on average, gravitate towards Free software or whatever costs less
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- It is sad to see someone who devoted many years of his life producing GNU/Linux stories stooping down to this "AI" boot-licking
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- something between Meta and Alphabet
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- Links for the day
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- After a lot of years of advocacy and hard work
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- the development, not the manifesto
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- it's hard to discount or dismiss Oceania as a bunch of "coconut islands"
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- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- The bottom line is, people typically find out the truth at the end
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- they dealt with the issue before media shame and a catastrophe of trust
- Over at Tux Machines...
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