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:

The KDE Team release KDE 4.3.5 which is available for openSUSE in its ever functional and friendly build service.
This guide will help you install KDE 4.3.5 on openSUSE 11.2.
The first thing you must do is add the correct Stable KDE Repository:
Note: -f is optional and is setting it to autorefresh
Upgrade to the packages on the new repository:
This will upgrade all [ continue reading... ]

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.

Today the Linux Mint team announced the immediate release of Linux Mint 8 RC1 codenamed Helena.
Linux Mint 8 RC1 KDE which is based on Kubuntu 9.10 will include the 2.6.31 branch of the Linux Kernel, KDE 4.3.4 and will feature Xorg 7.4 along with updates to it’s core open source applications.
Linux Mint 8 KDE will have a few new applications included by default. [ continue reading... ]

The Amarok team proudly announced yesterday that Amarok 2.2.2 has been released. Only 2 months after the release of 2.2.1 and a few weeks after a beta release that was seen in December.
The 2.2.2 release focused mainly on UI, and bug fixes. It did however have it’s share of new features which include the Moodbar, custom labeling, podcast improvements and simplifying the editing of [ continue reading... ]

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

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... ]

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... ]