From the GNOME Developers Mailing List comes the immediate release of GNOME 2.29.91, which includes the latest GNOME Shell release:

From the Mailing List release:
GTK+ 2.19.6 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/2.19/
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/2.19/
md5 sums:
524021c965a0e1a4ebadd58c576926a5 gtk+-2.19.6.tar.bz2
1311c99903e4dd28bf42a352b05788db gtk+-2.19.6.tar.gz
sha1 sums:
0a42eeee67fe2f3022f39fdf1a2a3817e520c0ff gtk+-2.19.6.tar.bz2
0e1d0329f2aad4d7aa9fd127c9b393db79dc6746 gtk+-2.19.6.tar.gz
This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.20.
Notes:
* This is an unstable development release.
It has had only little testing and there are unfinished
features and plenty of bugs in this release. It should
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The KDE developers have announced the latest release of the KDE Software Compilation branch. The newest release code named “Caikaku” is the 4th major release under KDE4, and brings in 7293 bug fixes along with a wealth of new features, and application sets, including a new authentication framework.
Here’s some info from their release notes:
You can read about some of my earlier KDE blog [ continue reading... ]

As I reported earlier the KDE development team opted to release a 3rd out of schedule release candidate for KDE 4.4. This release was initially to test some building issues they ran into in RC2, but the sneaky little developers in their RC3 release announcement note that there were enough fixes post RC2 to warrant RC3.
Here’s an excerpt from their release announcement:

Yesterday the KDE Developers were busy with announcements and here was another one with the release of KDE 4.3.5:
Below is excerpt from the kde-accounce mailing list:
KDE Community Ships Fifth Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates

Toma Albers, one of the KDE Developers sent out a note today that there will be an RC3 release for KDE 4.4, prior to the final release scheduled February 9th.
The biggest thing to note is that this will not delay the tagging or release of KDE 4.4. Here’s the official announcement from the KDE Mailing List which explains why the extra RC was warranted: [ continue reading... ]

Today the KDE team has released the second Release Candidate of KDE 4.4. This release is the final release prior to the scheduled Feb 9th release of KDE 4.4 Final.
Here are some of the release details from the official release announcement which can be found here.

I know when people install KDE 4.4, they’ll be wondering “Where do I configure my Plasma Theme Now”.
This is mostly in part because it was moved from the “Desktop Settings” into systemsettings.
Here’s a little pictorial on changing it:
In the menu choose Configure Desktop (which is systemsettings via the command line)

In the General Tab double click on Appearance (hovering over it, will show you [ continue reading... ]

As I promised in an earlier blog entry, here are the steps to installing Xorg and KDE on Arch Linux.
I am making the assumption that you have just completed your installation of Arch Linux
When you boot up your machine, you’ll be brought into the login screen. Login as root.

The first thing you should do is sync all your pacman software lists. This is accomplished [ continue reading... ]

Here’s an excerpt from KDE’s release notes for KDE 4.4 RC1:
To install on openSUSE, we’ll use the openSUSE KDE Factory Build Service.
To add the repository do:
I also recommend adding the community repository by doinig:
If you wish, you can set both repositories to refresh automatically by doing:
Now you can update your installation by doing:
You’ll now have KDE 4.4 RC1, and best of all, [ continue reading... ]

Thanks to Tejas Guruswamy for a very good write up on build service repositories for KDE.
The following is from the kde mailing list

The next development release of GNOME has been released as per it’s snapshot schedule.
Here’s an excert from their release:

You can add this using the following repos for openSUSE:

Note: I’m not 100% if you actually require the backports as in previous usage.
Upgrade using:

I decided to check out the different Windows Switching options in KDE 4, and decided I’d give a little preview of the 5 different methods which are:
No EffectBox SwitchPresent WindowsCover SwitchFlip Switch
I found my favorite to be “Cover Switch” for some unknown reason.
Here’s a screenshot of each one (Minus the No Effect):

These are configured in systemsettings under “Effects for window switching as shown [ continue reading... ]

Recently I upgraded to Amarok 2.2.1.90 from 2.2.0 while testing out some KDE 4.4.
However, when I first started listening to the music I realized that my tracks were playing continuously and not randomly. So I went to the menu’s to change this setting (this is where I had previously changed it). But to my surprise there was nothing in any of the menu’s.
So [ continue reading... ]

From the KDE.org Website:

I’ll be writing a little bit about blogilo, which I have used since it’s inception and find it quite compelling.
Plasma for Netbook is a great step forward, however I do not have a netbook nor the funds to purchase one to give it a shot, therefor I will not be able to comment on that much.
I’ll be talking about some more updates [ continue reading... ]