Today, I decided to install KDE 4.2 and run it with its native “desktop effects” and not Compiz. Here are some immediate things I had “issues / gripes” with.
1) No mouse binding for the Cube effects with Kwin effects (haven’t looked more into it, just initial things)
2) Quick launcher is quite “BLAH”
3) Wish there was a default Theme that had a slimmer title bar [ continue reading... ]
Tag Archives: emerald
I am giving KDE 4.2 an HONEST try
Ding Dong the Emeralds Back Compiz
As some of you may have read from my blog earlier, I was complaining about the “loss” of emerald without notification to the user community. However, during the 11th hour it seems as though David Reveman really pulled through.
You can check out the following bug to see Davids remarks:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431846
Which I’ll include here:
A compiz package fix that will allow emerald to work properly [ continue reading... ]
The sad state of emerald for compiz & its possible demise
As some of you may know, emerald is a very nice themer for compiz. However, recently a major patch was applied known as the “nomad” patch. The patch was applied on Tuesday Sept 16th and has ripped havoc for people who use Emerald.
So you’d imagine someone just needs to fix emerald. However, emerald is no longer maintained which means, unless someone really steps up [ continue reading... ]
Major PS3 Outage - Sony Playstation 3 PSN Network Down
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 112 is out!
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