kde4

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Yes, I am one of those grumpy KDE 3.x fans who can't deal with KDE4. So I've been trying out different desktop environments and window managers to replace my beloved KDE, and it has been fun and enlightening.

LXer Feature: "In this extension of his two part guest editorial and tutorial Dr. Tony Young (an Australian Mycologist by trade) goes into detail comparing the functions of Konquerer and Dolphin and along the way discovers that he might actually keep Dolphin as his file manager."

LXer: "In this first part of a two part guest editorial and tutorial Dr. Tony Young (an Australian Mycologist by trade) shares his trials, tribulations, successes and disappointments in working with the new version of KDE."

ComputerBob: "for the first time ever, I have the luxury of my wife and I being able to continue using my other two PCs while I experiment with my new one, I decided to take the plunge and do a full-blown, fresh install of 64-bit Debian Squeeze on my new PC, using ext4 partitions, KDE4 and grub2."

Some time back I wrote about creating a number of konsoles automatically using dcop.

Although we were at the time well into the KDE4 era I had not yet upgraded since there were still things that weren't quite working with KDE4, most of these have now been fixed so I've upgraded some of my systems to KDE4, which means it's time to update the original code to now use dbus.

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Tux Arena: "Gwenview is not only a powerful viewer for images, but also a basic image manipulation application, and with version 2.3 it allows even video previews."

Linux Magazine: "Linux distributions strive to include all the useful applications that users will need, but a quality video editor has been lacking for quite some time.

Now with KDE4 getting better and better, could an application like Kdenlive fill that gap?"

Linux distributions strive to include all the useful applications that users will need, but a quality video editor has been lacking for quite some time.

Now with KDE4 getting better and better, could an application like Kdenlive fill that gap?

Polish Linux: "Aaron Seigo has published a list of changes and new features to Plasma, the desktop shell for KDE4, that will be included in KDE4.3.

This list is quite long, so I will only try to show the most important changes."