I’ve recently come across the application Blogilo, which I from here on out will reference as the Blog Gigolo. Most of my blog posts I do in the wordpress backend, in a web browser since it’s what I knew.
However, recently I found this awesome application which is supposed to be shipping along side with KDE 4.4. The name Blogilo comes from unknown source to me, [ 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... ]

Ok,
I have to admit when I first thought or heard of this feature in KDE 4.4, I wasn’t really excited. I thought.. now why the hell would I want that.
Then I started using it.. and found quite a few usage scenario’s for it.
The first one, I realized right after I launched my VirtualBox. I had always hated how VirtualBox had a separate [ continue reading... ]

You can upgrade to the newest version of KDE 4.3.4 using the openSUSE BuildService.
Add the KDE 4.3 Repository using:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.2/ openSUSE\ 11.2\ KDE43
Add the KDE 4.3 Community Repository using:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE_43/ openSUSE\ 11.2\ KDE43\ Community
Once you’ve added those, set then to refresh by doing:
for repo in openSUSE\ 11.2\ KDE43\ Community openSUSE\ 11.2\ KDE43; do sudo zypper mr -r $repo; done
After that has [ continue reading... ]

Originally when I switched from GNOME to KDE 4, I kept using Compiz. But with the unknown state of Compiz++ / Compiz-Fusion, I opted to give the KDE 4 native compositing engine an honest shot.
I had a few criteria that had to be met:
I wanted CTRL + ALT + Arrows to determine which direction to move my “Cube”
I wanted CTRL + ALT + SHIFT [ continue reading... ]

KDE 4.3.3 was recently released and had many fixes to the KDE 4 Desktop Environment.

To read more about the release check out kde.org
If you’re running openSUSE 11.1 you can upgrade to the latest version by adding the repository:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.1/ openSUSE_111_KDE43
If you’re running openSUSE 11.2 you can upgrade to the latest version by adding the repository:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.2/ openSUSE_112_KDE43
Enable them to auto [ continue reading... ]

Back during the release of KDE 4.0.0, I made a decision to abandon KDE and move to GNOME as I felt that KDE 4 was not ready for my daily use production work machine and didn’t feel like staying on KDE 3.5.10 which wasn’t going to be maintained going forward. I switched to GNOME flawlessly and was working away like anyone else, but it felt [ continue reading... ]

The KDE Team announced the immediate release of KDE 4.2.4, here’s the announcement below:
KDE Community Improves Desktop with KDE 4.2.4
KDE Community Ships Fourth Translation and Service Release of the 4.2 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates
June 2nd, 2009. Another month has passed, and the KDE Community announces the immediate availability of KDE 4.2.4, another bugfix and maintenance update for [ continue reading... ]

The KDE team today announced the release of KDE 4.2.2. Here’s what they had on their site:
KDE Community Ships Second Translation and Service Release of the 4.2 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates
April 2nd, 2009. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of “Cano”, (a.k.a KDE 4.2.2), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most [ continue reading... ]

Well, I’ve been a few days with KDE 4.2 and thought I’d give a little insight of my experience and why I made the decision to go back to KDE 3.5.10.
Crashes:
I had 2 crashes with KDE 4.2, not surprisingly related to the Plasma portion of the desktop. Once while changing themes, and another while changing the height of a second panel.
The Pros:
Speed. The desktop [ continue reading... ]

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... ]