KDE 4.10 Released, the Fastest KDE Ever
sfcrazy writes "The KDE team has announced the 4.10 releases of KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. It brings many improvements, features and polishes the UI even further, which already is one of the most polished, stable and mature desktop environments. With 4.10 KDE users can experience a much more sane global-menu like implementation without interrupting their workflow. A list of improvements is available here." This release makes major steps toward further Qt Quick/QML integration (more plasmoids are written using QML, you can create animated desktops using QML, etc.). KWin's configuration applet also supports fetching extensions from KDE Look. Perhaps the best improvement is a new indexer for Nepomuk, with claims that the semantic desktop is finally usably fast (after suffering through a multi-week indexing on my laptop, I have to say Nepomuk is really cool, but having an unusable system for that long is not so I for one welcome our new indexing overlords). ...
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KDE 4.10 gets a QML refresh
The KDE developers have released the latest update to their desktop environment and its associated application suite. Plasma Workspaces have received updates with the expanded use of Qt Quick in many components
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Plasma Active, Sailfish, and Ubuntu Phone Developers Discussing Common APIs
Jolla's Sailfish, Canonical's recently announced Ubuntu Phone, and KDE's Plasma Active environments are all using Qt5's QML for interface design. Unfortunately, the set of UI components provided by each, although similar, are incompatible with the others. After a chat on IRC between developers of all three platforms, they've decided to discuss the reasons behind each implementation, in the hopes that they can work toward a common architecture. "There are also discussions underway regarding other aspects of the bigger puzzle such as common package formats and delivery strategies. We are poised, should we keep our heads straight and our feet moving, to evolve that holiest of grails in the mobile space: an open and vendor neutral application development strategy built around the commonality of QtQuick and Linux. This is our Rome, which will not be built in a day, but which can become something significant in the world if we keep our heads and follow through."
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Running a Linux Live KDE Desktop In 210MB
An anonymous reader writes "Slax 7.0 is a Slackware-based Linux distribution that can provide a Live USB/CD environment complete with the KDE4 Plasma desktop in just 210MB of space. Slax can also be customized with other software modules to provide lightweight Linux installations for varying tasks. For those curious how this lightweight Linux distribution has pulled off the feat of being small and fast, Slax creator Tomá Matejícek wrote a technical article explaining the Slax internals with booting a modern Linux desktop in just ~200MB."
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If You Love Startups And Live In San Francisco, Vote Yes On Prop E
San Francisco residents will be voting on Proposition E next week, an important measure aimed at eliminating the ridiculous payroll tax companies here pay and replacing it with a (slightly less evil) revenue tax. The net effect – an estimated increase in tax revenue for the city of around $28.5 million next year, and a significantly more startup-friendly environment. If you love startups and live in San Francisco, I urge you to vote yes on Prop E. It’s virtually impossible to find anyone who doesn’t think Prop E is good for San Francisco. It’s supported by Mayor Ed Lee, the SF Republican Party, the SF Democratic Party and every single member of the SF Board of Supervisors. In fact, the only people who are really against Prop E, probably, are cities like Palo Alto down the peninsula who stand to get more SF jobs if the payroll tax stays in place. Here’s what you can do to help: - If you live in San Francisco, remember to vote for Prop E next week (and Prop 37!) - There’s a link ...
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